Optum jobs - Associate Scrum Specialist

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

The Scrum Master will be integral part of Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, global agile practice. The SM will work with a couple of teams with varying levels of agile maturity. He/she should be able to continuously improve and promote practice in global distributed development teams. The SM will work daily with Product Owners, development team as well as Program Managers, Senior Leaders and others responsible for agile adoption and execution.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Optum Agile Community to develop training, processes and tools suitable for distributed large agile teams
• Serve as an expert on agile software principles to engineering managers, developers, quality engineers, UX engineers, software designers, and architects
• Identify and extract process improvements that will result in measurable quality, predictability and efficiency improvements
• Establish metrics and tools to achieve predictability and high quality of software in a fast paced, challenging, and creative environment
• Review the project and identify gaps and area of improvement
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies and running interventions to coach and guide
• Coach and mentor other scrum masters, individuals and teams
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so
  
  

Required Qualifications

• B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA / M.Sc (full time courses only) with 6 - 8 years of relevant experience
• Certified as either a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, CSM, CSPO, or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant (SPC)
• 6 - 9 years of IT / business solutions experience
• 3 - 5 years of experience using Agile practices to develop software solutions
• Experience introducing and leading implementations of Agile values, principles, and practices including (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and XP) into an organization
• Hands-on experience implementing Agile technical practices (e.g. Automated testing, TDD, continuous integration)
• Demonstrated experience with meeting facilitation and negotiation
• Deep understanding of all software lifecycle development disciplines - Requirements Management, Analysis and Design, Quality Assurance (Testing),Implementation, Deployment, Configuration and Change Management
• Technical currency and vision to evaluate Agile development tools, technology and trends
• Ability to identify opportunity for improvement, able to promote culture of continues improvement
  
  

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

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