Scrum Master IV

Medica's IT Scrum Master is responsible for helping team members through successful and quality product delivery for their corresponding business and information technology stakeholders. This position requires a servant-leader mindset as well as one who can enforce the values, principles and practices of Agile through rules that the product team has agreed upon. The position will require cross-communication with other teams and communication to senior business and IT leadership as required.

The Scrum Master will be expected to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations while balancing competing demands among requirements/scope, time and budget. This expectation will require the management and prioritization of the product backlog. The Scrum Master will work with their corresponding Product Owner for the identification and prioritization of backlog items.

This role will be responsible for ensuring delivery timelines and maintaining capital and expense budget while adhering to agile values, principles and practices. This role is responsible for producing artifacts and communicating sprint and release metrics and progress.

This role ensures that the development team is free from distraction - whether that be competing work priorities or potential interruption or impediments. This will be done by acting as a facilitator and "buffer" between any external or internal influences. The Scrum Master seeks to consistently challenge the development team to incorporate best practices, increase productivity, and ensure quality.

Job Duties:

• Assist with short term tactical planning, organizing and execution
• Assist with financial forecasting
• Ability to coach and mentor more junior IT Scrum Masters
• Determine gaps and needs within the team and advocate for support to leadership as necessary
• Inform and create trusted partnerships with business stakeholders
• Plan and partner with other IT teams for shared delivery
• Responsible for key Agile deliverables:

  o Project planning/release planning

  o Sprint planning, kickoffs, demos and retrospectives

  o Backlog grooming in coordination with Product Owner

  o Daily standups and KANBAN

  o Weekly sprint summary reports

• Responsible for all product deliverables
• Mature and continuously improve product team
• Produce high quality products, increase productivity, reduce time-to-market, stakeholder satisfaction, more engaged employees
• eam building and servant-leadership of teams
• Communicate the status and key metrics for all issues and product deliverables with all levels of management
• Research and make recommendations regarding technologies when necessary
• Support and promote the work of the team
• Drive and promote agile principles, values and practices
• Develop and prepare team for cross-performance by reinforcing paired programming and role-sharing
• Help to grow the agile practice broadly across Medica
• Developing team's understanding of "definition of done"
• Educating the business stakeholders on Scrum principles
• Maintain knowledge of system environments, processes, applications and integrations
• Learn and support key vendor partnerships
• Maintain an understanding of IT related technologies and solutions
• Maintain Industry knowledge - process, people and nuances of the business

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field
• 5 years of work experience beyond degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong leadership skills
• Effective meeting facilitation
• Technical expertise and the ability to relate technical information broadly
• Ability to resolve conflicts, and escalate when necessary
• Communication across IT and Business teams
• Identify and leverage the skills, energy and talents of others
• Ability to create a strong and supportive team Professional 5 years
• Strong understanding of Agile principles and methodologies (Scrum/Lean/Kanban). Strong understanding of Scrum tools and concepts (Release Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown, Velocity, User Stories, Complexity, Estimating, Story
• Boarding/Mapping, Definition of Done, etc.) Professional 5 years
• SAFe Agile Experience Professional 2 years
• Experience leading IT project delivery with experience and knowledge of IT infrastructure, resource management, database design, and other systems support and development.

This position is a Hub role, which requires an employee to occasionally come onsite to the designated office - Minnetonka, MN - for applicable heads-up work. Frequency is determined by business need as decided by leadership.

Medica's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) includes unifying our workforce through learning and development, recruitment and retention. We consistently communicate the importance of DEI, celebrate achievements, and seek out community partnerships and diverse suppliers that are representative of everyone in our community. We are developing sustainable programs and investing time, talent and resources to ensure that we are living our values. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, where all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.

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