Senior Scrum Master

Company: Talent Software Services
Location: Minnetonka
Posted on: April 5, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Scrum Master III

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Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Senior Scrum Master for a contract to hire position in Minnetonka, MN.

Position Summary: The Member Portal/Digital API Development team is focused on building solutions to support Medicas Provide Service business domains around our Digital Experience. The Scrum Masterwill be responsible for leading the work to develop and support solutions to advance these business domains utilizing mobile, web, cloud, and API technologies. They will leverage their development knowledge and experience to guide internal and external development resources to solve complex business problems.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:IT Scrum Master is responsible for helping team members through successful and quality product delivery for their corresponding business and information technology stakeholders. This position requires a servant-leader mindset as well as one who can enforce the values, principles and practices of Agile through rules that the product team has agreed upon. The position will require cross-communication with other teams and communication to senior business and IT leadership as required.
The Scrum Master will be expected to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations while balancing competing demands among requirements/scope, time and budget. This expectation will require the management and prioritization of the product backlog. The Scrum Master will work with their corresponding Product Owner for the identification and prioritization of backlog items.
This role will be responsible for ensuring delivery timelines and maintaining capital and expense budget while adhering to agile values, principles and practices. This role is responsible for producing artifacts and communicating sprint and release metrics and progress.
This role ensures that the development team is free from distraction whether that be competing work priorities or potential interruption or impediments. This will be done by acting as a facilitator and buffer between any external or internal influences. The Scrum Master seeks to consistently challenge the development team to incorporate best practices, increase productivity, and ensure quality.

Product Team Management (30%):Assist with short term tactical planning, organizing and execution
Assist with financial forecasting
Ability to coach and mentor more junior IT Scrum Masters
Determine gaps and needs within the team and advocate for support to leadership as necessary
Inform and create trusted partnerships with business stakeholders
Plan and partner with other IT teams for shared delivery

Agile Team Leadership and Feature Delivery (50%):Responsible for key SAFE Agile deliverables:
Project planning/release planning
Sprint planning, kickoffs, demos and retrospectives
Backlog grooming in coordination with Product Owner
Daily standups and KANBAN
Weekly sprint summary reports
Responsible for all product deliverables
Mature and continuously improve product team
Produce high quality products, increase productivity, reduce time-to-market, stakeholder satisfaction, more engaged employees
Team building and servant-leadership of teams
Communicate the status and key metrics for all issues and product deliverables with all levels of management
Research and make recommendations regarding technologies when necessary
Support and promote the work of the team

Agile Leader (25%):Drive and promote agile principles, values and practices
Responsible for the development of high-performing product Team
Evangelize Agile Principles and Values to team
Coach and provide servant leadership for teams success and self-organization
Develop and prepare team for cross-performance by reinforcing paired programming and role-sharing
Help to grow the agile practice broadly across Medica
Developing teams understanding of definition of done
Educating the business stakeholders on Scrum principles

Application Management (10%):Maintain knowledge of system environments, processes, applications and integrations
Learn and support key vendor partnerships
Maintain an understanding of IT related technologies and solutions
Maintain Industry knowledge - process, people and nuances of the business


Qualifications: Bachelors Degree
Major: Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems or equivalent work
Years of experience required: 5 years
UI, and Digital Front End Portal experience
Strong leadership skills, and Effective meeting facilitation
Technical expertise and the ability to relate technical information broadly
Ability to resolve conflicts, and escalate when necessary
Communication across IT and Business teams
Identify and leverage the skills, energy and talents of others
Ability to create a strong and supportive team
Strong understanding of Agile principles and methodologies (Scrum/Lean/Kanban). Strong understanding of Scrum tools and concepts (Release Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown, Velocity, User Stories, Complexity, Estimating, Story Boarding/Mapping, Definition of Done, etc.)
2 years of SAFe Agile Experience
4 years of Experience leading IT project delivery with experience and knowledge of IT infrastructure, resource management, database design, and other systems support and development.

CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURE: Certified Scrum Master Certification, Formal Agile Training


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