Senior Scrum Master & Agile Coach (ET Team)

CVS Health Corporation; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 93,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a seasoned Scrum Master to drive agile SDLC for a large, complex technology project with development and business teams. You will coach teams, maintain process docs, and ensure alignment with agile principles in a fast-paced environment operating in the Eastern Time Zone.

Responsibilities include facilitating sprint planning, removing impediments, tracking progress, and fostering transparent communication among stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of work experience.
• 2–5 years’ experience as RTE, Scrum Master, Product Owner or Agile Project/Program Manager.
• 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.
• Adept at business intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Maintain process documentation.
• Ensure the development and business teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs.
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice. Support the development managers and project leads as necessary.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition, identifying and removing impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal, facilitate discussion, and conflict resolution.
• Empower the teams to self-organize and improve the productivity of the teams in any way possible.
• Ensure the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially shippable.
• Participate in the organization and planning of the development schedule based on methodology that has been developed to create a cohesive plan with an identifiable critical path, task dependencies, and major milestones, and manages the agreed project plans and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters.
• Adapting project plans, schedules, and resource assignments as required throughout project to respond to emerging requirements and risks.

Skills

Problem solving

Collaboration

Growth mindset

Execution and delivery

Business intelligence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CA Rally

Confluence

SharePoint

Microsoft Teams

Job description

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a seasoned Scrum Master to drive agile SDLC for a large, complex technology project with development and business teams. You will coach teams, maintain process docs, and ensure alignment with agile principles in a fast-paced environment operating in the Eastern Time Zone.

Responsibilities include facilitating sprint planning, removing impediments, tracking progress, and fostering transparent communication among stakeholders.