Agile Scrum Master - Lead Teams & Drive Value

Delta Dental; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 93,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base pay

401(k) with matching

Medical & dental benefits

Paid holidays

Job summary

Delta Dental is seeking a Scrum Master in California to serve as a servant leader for Agile teams, guiding Scrum practices, risk management, and efficient communications. You will facilitate Scrum ceremonies and help the organization adopt Agile maturity across multiple teams.

Ideal candidates bring 2+ years of Agile delivery experience, a Bachelor’s in IT or equivalent, and strong facilitation, SAFe/Scrum/Kanban knowledge.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology field or equivalent.
• Delivery leadership experience in technology with minimum of 2 years of Agile delivery experience.
• Strong knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution.
• Understand various Agile methodologies and frameworks; SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP.
• Effective communication skills, ability to adapt style to suit different audiences.

Responsibilities

• Applies Agile principles, values, practices, and mindsets
• Supports Product Owners with backlog maintenance, backlog prioritization, and user story refinement process to deliver highest business value
• Ensures the Scrum team is practicing the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, and team accountability to achieve Sprint goals and lead the team towards Agile maturity
• Facilitates Sprint planning, daily Scrum, dependency reviews, demos to stakeholders, and retrospectives
• Uses Scrum of Scrums (SOS) forum and coordinates with other teams to manage cross-team dependencies
• Facilitates frequent retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements
• Identifies and takes ownership of resolving impediments, removing barriers, and enabling cooperation
• Drives risks, issues and dependencies to resolution
• Escalates impediments that cannot be resolved by the team
• Able to support Kanban teams when needed

Skills

Facilitation

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Agile / Scrum

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's in IT or equivalent

Tools

Visio

Jira

Confluence

Jira Align

Miro

Job description

Delta Dental is seeking a Scrum Master in California to serve as a servant leader for Agile teams, guiding Scrum practices, risk management, and efficient communications. You will facilitate Scrum ceremonies and help the organization adopt Agile maturity across multiple teams.

Ideal candidates bring 2+ years of Agile delivery experience, a Bachelor’s in IT or equivalent, and strong facilitation, SAFe/Scrum/Kanban knowledge.