Scrum Lead

Primary Responsibilities:
* Acting as a Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams
* Establish team level cadence and drive team level events in alignment with Program level cadences established; Provide leadership, direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices
* Provide agile practice leadership and education to the organization, technology delivery capabilities for the enablement of scrum teams and product owners, to ensure successful delivery of continuous business value
* Influence leadership and management teams within our delivery practices, including business and other supporting functional areas which engage with technology teams on agile principles, practices, and tools
* Encourage and facilitate cross-team coordination and collaboration
* Facilitate management of the Scrum Team’s dependencies between the program team and third parties
* Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality
* Drive release management for the agile teams
* As needed provide Project Management support for Business Partner project for which technology services are provided by enterprise and/or external teams
* Lead projects by collaboration with enterprise and/or external teams, coordinating execution and delivery, and reporting on accomplishments and progress
* Drive adoption of the new delivery model and agile practices across the enterprise
* Demonstrate thought leadership by engaging with enterprise through speaking, learning forums, blogging, etc.
* Works with less structured, more complex issues
* Serves as a resource to others
* Be a change agent and foster a “learn by doing” environment
* Help teams develop and implement practices and metrics that track effective and efficient delivery for continuous improvement
* Foster a culture of continuous improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
* Analyzes and investigates
* Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise
– Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
Required Qualifications:
* Graduation or Full time and Equivalent experience
* 4+ years of IT/business solutions experience using Agile practices to develop software solutions
* 4+ years of demonstrated solid understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
* 3+ years of Scrum Master experience with distributed teams
* Experience in implementing agile practice in globally distributed team
* Experience in Agile tools Rally and Jira tools or any other agile tools
* Experience with the implementation and execution of Scrum in an environment where individuals are unfamiliar with the methodology
* Progressive experience in business roles where change management is a vital component, including people, process, and technology change
* Ability to coach and mentor agile teams and drive agile transformation
* Ability to provide guidance during Ideation, MVP, and Capability grooming, and Feature roadmap grooming
* Ability to identify opportunity for improvement, able to promote culture of continuous improvement
* Ability to mentor agile teams on agile practices (processes, tools, artifacts and ceremonies), assisting the team to self-organize, leading the team towards a path of continuous improvement
* Proven excellent communication, both written and verbal skills
* Proven excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational and team building skills, business judgment, and proven expertise in directing the efforts of a technical staff
* Proven excellent active meeting facilitation and negotiation skills
* Solid project management skills and solid ability to multi-task and manage resources in a cross-functional environment
* Solid quantitative, analytical and management skills
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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