Senior Scrum Master & Agile Coach

CVS Health; Missouri; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a skilled Scrum Master to help teams deliver value in a fast-paced healthcare environment. This full-time role emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and agile practices across product and project teams.

You will coach teams, facilitate Scrum events, remove impediments, and partner with Product Owners while forecasting capacity, refining backlogs, and ensuring timely delivery of software and services that improve patient and community health.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years work experience.
• Adept at problem solving and decision making skills.
• Adept at collaboration and teamwork.
• Adept at growth mindset (agility and developing yourself and others) skills.
• Adept at execution and delivery (planning, delivering, and supporting) skills.

Responsibilities

• Coaches scrum masters and product owners on agile principles, values, and best practices for project/product management.
• Develops the budgets and resource planning strategy with consideration for team velocity, historical data, and limitations.
• Determines the amount of work that can be completed within proposed projects timelines.
• Ensures that risk assessments include risks identification, mitigation strategies, and contingency plans for scrum projects.
• Establishes scrum processes and procedures for backlog management, prioritization techniques, and user story refinement.
• Forecasts team capacity and delivery potential for future projects to set realistic expectations for product releases.
• Helps establish and implement a common language and framework for team collaboration.
• Improves team capacity and investigates potential bottlenecks to determine how to proactively address issues before they arise.
• Integrates the concepts of adaptability, transparency, and customer collaboration into department processes to promote a culture of continuous learning and experimentation.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile methodologies

Team facilitation

Stakeholder collaboration

Project planning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a skilled Scrum Master to help teams deliver value in a fast-paced healthcare environment. This full-time role emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and agile practices across product and project teams.

You will coach teams, facilitate Scrum events, remove impediments, and partner with Product Owners while forecasting capacity, refining backlogs, and ensuring timely delivery of software and services that improve patient and community health.