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Monday, June 20, 2022
Over 35 years strong and fueled by 1,700 smart, passionate employees across New York state and Vermont, MVP is full of opportunities to grow. We are a nationally recognized, award-winning leader for a reason. The beating heart of our company is a wide range of employees from a diverse set of backgrounds-tech people, numbers people, even people people-working together to make health insurance better. If you are ready to join a thriving, mission-driven company where you can create your own opportunities and make a positive difference-it's time to make a healthy career move to MVP!
Full-Time, Exempt Band: Professional III Recruiter: Jan Cozzy Referral Bonus eligible: Standard
Position can be virtual/remote within New York State or Vermont.
The Dynamics SCRUM Master is accountable for leading and coordinating successful implementations of large-scale, enterprise-wide initiatives that align with the Dynamics roadmap, driving rapid realization of the company's corporate strategic goals through initiative delivery and execution to meet the needs and expectations of MVP customers and business partners.
This role will coordinate planning, collaboration, reporting and execution activities across multiple cross functional teams. The SCRUM Master will apply and implement Scrum principles and practices, facilitating continuous improvement, and identifying and removing impediments to delivery. Additionally, this individual will also help protect the team from outside influences, which could otherwise interfere with the team's ability to deliver value in a short time-box (iteration). This is a highly visible role that will continuously facilitate a team dynamic intended to maximize performance by continuously improving agile practices.
This role includes, but is not limited to:
Prepare for and facilitate daily scrum meetings, biweekly sprint planning, sprint reviews, and backlog grooming meetings
Create, maintain, and organize backlog of features, epics, stories, and tasks in TFS
Provide input to release planning using team capacity and skill set information
Compile, analyze, and present statistics about time estimation accuracy, team velocity, and burndown rate to development team and management
Create and maintain statistics on story lifetime to assess efficiency of requirements throughput
Meet with product owners and operational business managers for selected modules to introduce scrum and program processes and outline expectations
Support scrum of scrums reporting and planning, focusing on integration of scrum team schedules and work products
Communicate team progress and dependencies with other team leads during scrum of scrums
Interface with business, test, and user support teams to receive requirements information and forward updates on feature progress
Review and provide feedback on drafted user stories and epics to ensure alignment with general Agile user story standards
Create general Agile graphics and assist product manager and EPMO with executive briefings
Be an advocate for the Agile and Scrum methodology
Train and mentoring staff on Agile processes
Facilitate discussions with stakeholders for implementing within the sprint framework
Communicate across teams and departments, encourage collaboration and remove obstacles
Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving
Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Foster transparency across teams and department boundaries
Assess the Scrum maturity of the team and organization to coach the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
Position Qualifications:
Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and related project management experience required. Master's degree is preferred. Scrum Master Certification (Level 1 or 2 (CSP, PSM I/II)), and experience working as a Scrum Master. PMP Certification is preferred.
Minimum Experience:
1 to 2 years of practitioner experience leading Agile / Scrum projects
Experience in Agile / Scrum collaboration methodologies & tools (such as TFS)
Minimum 3 years project management experience, successfully leading/managing high-performing teams
Experience with Project / Portfolio Management tools
Required Qualifications:
Demonstrated success in managing project delivery and execution to a high degree of success and customer satisfaction
Strong knowledge and experience in delivering enterprise-wide projects that include major technology components/solutions delivery
Complete understanding of the Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and its processes and procedures
Understand basic fundamentals of iterative development
Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics
Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Strong team leadership skills, with demonstrated success in leading and executing large complex projects
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and an ability to interact with all levels in the organization
Competencies in critical thinking, problem solving, building effective teams, meeting facilitation and conflict management
Ability to work on multiple projects under time constraints
Possesses a strong sense of accountability and urgency in delivering projects and completing assignments
Microsoft Suite knowledge required
Preferred Qualifications:
Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
Understand fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
Strong knowledge of industry best practices in project management methodologies and process-based project management
Health care business acumen is preferred
About MVP MVP Health Care is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit health insurer caring for more than 700,000 members in New York and Vermont. Committed to the complete well-being of our members and the communities we serve, MVP makes health insurance more convenient, more supportive, and more personal. We are powered by the ideas and energy of more than 1,700 diverse, employees from all backgrounds, committed to having a positive impact on the health and wellness of everyone we serve. MVP Health Care is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Employment Opportunity (PDF). We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis, e.g., Pay Transparency (PDF), and the EEO is the Law Poster and Supplement protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Any person with a disability needing special accommodations to the application process, please contact Human Resources at hr@mvphealthcare.com
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Burlington Office, 62 Merchants Row, Williston, Vermont, United States of America
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Rochester Office, 220 Alexander Street, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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