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Senior Scrum Master
Liberty Mutual
Portsmouth, NH, United States
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Description
Liberty Mutual is actively searching for a Senior Scrum Master to coach and lead squads across GRM US Products and Underwriting. These squads currently support multiple missions and platforms within the New and Expanded Offerings portfolio.
The Senior Scrum Master will be responsible for developing strategies for adoption of agile methodologies and ongoing development of agile capabilities within the business unit. You will also initiate and foster collaborative partnerships required for training and coaching; develop relationships that support organizational agility.
The Senior Scrum Master is responsible for timely and successful delivery of features/enablers for programmatic business and/or technology objectives that require coordination of multiple scrum teams. Facilitates process and program execution, escalates impediments, manages risk and helps drive program-level continuous improvement.
About the role:
• Implements consistent process and tools and identify emerging best practices and issues to help continuously advance agile methods and practices.
• Work closely with executives, business unit leaders, product owners, and squads as an expert on agile methods and to educate organizations to use a variety of approaches to deliver customer value in both business and IT teams.
• Ensures successful delivery of large impact and/or cross-functional product initiative by assisting in the identification and solution of organizational impediments which limit team’s customer centricity, productivity, and/or quality.
• Provide scaling expertise to align multiple agile teams, collaborate and facilitate quarterly planning with large groups, manage portfolio backlog of epics and features, and facilitate decision making with Product Management, Senior Leaders and Architects.
• Coaches, mentors and provides guidance to Scrum Masters, Technologists, Architects and other members of the squad.
• Provide feedback to management at all levels regarding the progress of agile transformations within their teams.
• Bachelor degree in Communications, Business, Computer Science or a related discipline and at least five years of IT and project/program management.
• Requires ability to manage projects from conception to successful implementation.
• Requires solid project management skills, ability to multitask and manage multiple projects in a cross-functional environment.
• Requires excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational and team building skills, business judgment, and proven expertise in directing the efforts of a technical staff.
• In-depth knowledge of business functions and extensive understanding of business operations, strategies and objectives.
• In-depth knowledge of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) with three plus years’ experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Agile Coach.
• Strong communication, facilitation, presentation and consensus building skills.