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The Cigna Group Scrum Master in Bengaluru, India
Job Description
Help us lead our future. Get ready for a job that encourages you to think strategically yet stay connected with your teams. Do you have problem-solving or technical experience? If so, prepare to innovate, create, and inspire. The Scrum Master Exercises judgment in the evaluation, selection, and adaptation of both standard and complex techniques and procedures. Utilizes in-depth professional knowledge and acumen to develop models and procedures and monitor trends.
Responsibilities:
Accountable for scheduling, leading and facilitating effective agile team meetings
Drives continuous improvement by facilitating retrospectives and ensuring teams act on improvement items
Provides coaching to Team Members to ensure they demonstrate appropriate Agile behaviors and following Cigna-specific Agile practices
Builds high-performing teams
Protects the team and communicates risks (removes impediments/blockers)
Helps coordinate inter-team cooperation
Facilitates preparation and readiness for Agile ceremonies
Facilitates team progress towards the Iteration and Program Increment Goals
Supports team during estimation activities
Supports the Agile Product Owner
Understands key business objectives and strategy of the product, and can communicate this to the team
Helps track agile team metrics (inputs, outputs, and outcomes), and monitors these on an ongoing basis
Facilitates process of deciding which User Stories will be included in each iteration through understanding team’s velocity, capacity and story scope and size
Facilitates team working with Agile Product Owner to re-balance and re-prioritize work within an iteration
Protects Scrum team from distractions and interruptions by people outside the team
Understands technology roadmap and help team fit their work into this roadmap, where applicable
Provides visibility into progress by maintaining Jira, burndown charts, velocity analysis, etc.
Empowers and motivates the team to self-organize
Ensures the necessary tools are set up for the team (including software, collaboration tools, Jira, CI/CD, etc.)
Ensures that the team has established working agreements with relevant Operations team(s) on how software will be tested, deployed and operated, including who is accountable
Maintains accurate team rosters and ensuring team member data such as primary role, team affiliation and team allocations are accurate and up to date
Support a single agile team.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Scrum Master Certification strongly preferred
SAFe Agilest Certification strongly preferred
Experience working in a scaled agile framework preferred
Minimum 2 Years of Agile Scrum Master experience preferred
Advanced presentation skills
Demonstrated ability to understand business needs and execute on a business strategy
Deep understanding of Agile development processes and methodology
Sufficient understanding of technology/business to lead Scrum team and assist in overcoming roadblocks.
Strong knowledge of Agile principles and concepts
About The Cigna Group
Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.
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