Assurant

Scrum Master

Assurant

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $86,000 - $143,700 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Azure

About the role

  • Understand the difference between Agile and Scrum and be able to articulate it
  • Provide team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software
  • Manage more than one Sprint team with overlapping timelines and proactively manage dependencies within and across teams
  • Facilitate Daily scrum (stand-up), release and Sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective
  • Track and communicate team velocity and Sprint/release progress
  • Foster and encourage conversations and collaboration
  • Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the Sprint goal
  • Support Product Owner, ensuring the product backlog is properly refined
  • Ensure team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items
  • Update Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs
  • Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice
  • Participate in the Agile community both internal to Assurant and external with other practitioners

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master for software development teams
  • Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar tool
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, leadership and coaching skills
  • Strong understanding of Agile practices for: retrospectives, daily standups, sprint planning, burn down and related techniques
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
AgileScrumSprint planningSprint reviewSprint retrospectiveTeam velocity trackingProduct Backlog refinementImpediment removalBurn down techniques
Soft skills
CommunicationFacilitationLeadershipCoachingCollaboration