Scrum Master (Hybrid)

Glastonbury, CT, United States

Description At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.

Our Business

Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years.Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2024 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2024 for the fifth consecutive year.

Working at Selective

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely - we employ uniqueness. Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs. Employees receive comprehensive total rewards packages - including competitive compensation and performance awards, health benefits, and retirement savings - and professional development opportunities and flexible schedules to support their health, wealth, and well-being. Join our team and help make a difference.

Overview:

Selective Insurance Commercial Lines IT Delivery is seeking a Scrum Master who coordinates and facilitates Scrum events, such as the Sprint Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives, and acts as first level escalation for impediments impacting the Development Team members. The Agile Practitioner is responsible for empowering delivery teams to effectively deliver business results using agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban and Scrum. Coaches teams to understand and apply these techniques effectively and eliminate, reduce or avoid challenges and impediments that may impact delivery. Provides leadership and coaching for our teams executing in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities:

Act as an agile leader and coach for two agile teams of low to moderate complexity, each generally ranging in size from 5 - 12 individuals.

Be a key member of an Agile team launch and / or Agile Release Train launch, if applicable.

Participate with oversight within Agile Release Trains and Scrum Teams as defined agile roles designated by SAFe, particularly Scrum Master.

Facilitates and coaches their teams on agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, and Retrospective. Coaching of other agile team members and their Product Owners in Lean/Agile values, practices, tools, and methodologies.

Participate in and facilitate team level planning, execution, and continuous improvement.

Accountable for delivery for small to moderately sized epics across the entire application lifecycle, aligned with an agile methodology. This includes project initiation, facilitating project scope management, addressing dependencies across teams, providing status, and managing risks/issues.

Facilitate the creation and maintenance of Product Vision and Roadmaps to enable teams to align execution to business value. Work with project leadership to report status, escalate and resolve issues, and communicate changes in scope or execution.

Work with Product Owner and Development Teams to facilitate the refinement, estimation, planning, and execution of features and stories in alignment with Agile Best Practices.

Drives continuous improvement on agile teams using techniques such as Inspect & Adapt, Retrospectives, and Root Cause Analysis.

Facilitate tracking and reporting of agile metrics at the team level such as lead time, velocity, defect leakage, etc. to encourage transparency and continuous improvement.

Partner with the Release Train Engineer on SAFe facilitation and execution.

Qualifications:

Strong leadership and communication skills

Ability to work directly with technical and product teams

Has been accountable for delivery effort of $250,000 or more

Knowledge of modern Agile frameworks and practices such as Scum, Kanban, DevOps, test driven development, and test automation, as well as the underlying principles

Proficient with Agile project management software such as Rally or Jira (Microsoft Azure DevOps preferred)

Understanding of and experience with servant leadership, as well as influence without (formal management) authority

5+ years of related experience in software development, with 1+ years direct Agile Scrum or Kanban experience

Understanding and ability to execute and coach at the team level of SAFe: e.g. Agile Teams and Product Owner

Knowledge of Insurance Industry a plus

CSM, SSM or PSM certification preferred

Salary range: $104,000 - $150,000. The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include the candidate's qualifications and experience.

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual's unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences - and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.

Selective maintains a drug-free workplace .

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