Scrum Master - Optum Experience is a plus

Job Description

Job Description

Role: Scrum Master
Duration: 7 months USA -
Remote Work

*Previous Optum Experience is Required*
Role description:
*Facilitate Agile team events, including Daily Stand ups, Iteration Planning, Iteration Reviews, and Iteration Retrospectives, ensuring meetings are productive and conducted within established timeboxes
*Guide the Agile team through planning, execution, review, and reflection activities to support consistent delivery
*Coach team members in Scrum, Kanban, and quality practices
*Promote and reinforce self organization and self management within the Agile team
*Mentor team members to foster a continuous learning mindset and encourage independent problem solving *Identify and help eliminate bottlenecks, delays, and waste to improve team workflow efficiency
*Assist the Agile team in meeting delivery goals and maintaining focus on iteration and PI objectives
*Support the Product Owner in backlog management and prioritization activities
*Ensure requirements and priorities are clearly communicated and understood by the team
*Facilitate healthy team dynamics around scope, priorities, and commitments
*Collaborate with other Scrum Masters and the Release Train Engineer (RTE) during PI Planning and ART level events
*Support coordination and alignment across Agile Teams within the ART
*Analyze team performance metrics, delivery progress, and key performance indicators
*Guide the team in using metrics and insights to address challenges and improve execution
*Facilitate retrospectives focused on continuous improvement and value delivery

Required skills:

• 3 years of residential requirements in the US
• Experience working as a Scrum Master and solid working knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Agile practices
• Experience supporting Agile Release Trains and participating in PI Planning activities
• Experience analyzing team metrics and using data to guide team improvement and delivery outcomes Demonstrated ability to operate independently on ambiguous, high impact initiatives with executive visibility
• Demonstrated ability to coach teams on Agile practices, self organization, and continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to collaborate with Product Owners, Release
• Train Engineers, and other Scrum Masters
• Proven solid strategic thinking, analytical problem solving, and stakeholder influence skills
• Proven solid facilitation skills with the ability to lead effective, time boxed Agile ceremonies

Desired skills:

• Experience in regulated or healthcare environments
• Experience working within a SAFe or scaled Agile environment.
• Experience using AI assisted tools to support
• Agile delivery activities such as backlog refinement, planning, retrospectives, and flow analysis, while ensuring human ownership and decision making remain intact
• Experience in Agentic Scrum integrating AI agents into Agile
• Experience using AI-powered tools to automate reporting and track performance metrics

This is a remote position.