Scrum Master Lead Analyst

The job profile for this position is Scrum Master Lead Analyst, which is a Band 3 Senior Contributor Career Track Role. Excited to grow your career... We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply! Our people make all the difference in our success. The Scrum Master will be responsible for supporting the agile transformation and successful delivery for one or more agile teams. They will provide leadership and coaching to the team(s) they support to encourage adoption of agile principles and practices while empowering the team to grow towards becoming self-directed and self-managing. They will work to establish a safe team environment to allow for problems to be addressed with a focus on problem solving. Desired Traits: • Passionate about continually learning new tools and techniques to support the team and encourages others to do so as well. • Proactive, with the ability to adjust or flex approach based upon the situation at hand. • Ability to earn the team’s respect and lead by example. • Ability to promote and educate agile / Scrum concepts and principles at the team level. • Ability to partner and build relationships across the organization to collaboratively achieve goals. • Ability to facilitate and support discussion and conflict resolution at the team level. • Ability to promote a safe environment for constructive dialogue to encourage continual growth and improvement. • Ability to communicate effectively and concisely with team members, program team members, and stakeholders. • Ability to guide a team with diverse personalities and approaches toward becoming self-organizing and self- managing. Key Responsibilities: • Act as a Scrum Master for one or more distributed agile teams. • Support the team through servant leadership, leading by example. • Establish, support and facilitate team level cadence and ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand up, retrospectives, backlog refinement, etc. • Provide coaching and guidance to the team to support adoption of agile values, principles and practices. • Provide coaching and support to Product Owner in maintaining and refining product backlog. • Support Product Owner in prioritization and forecasting of roadmap based on team velocity and stakeholder requests. If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload. For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 95,300 - 158,800 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location. This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan. We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That’s why you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, visit Life at Cigna. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws. Please note that you must meet our posting guidelines to be eligible for consideration. Policy can be reviewed at this link. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances