Scrum Master – Non-Life-Claims

afarax is looking for a freelance Scrum Master – Non-Life-Claims. We need you!

The project:

Our client in the insurance sector is looking for a Test Factory Manager to join their team.

Key responsibilities:

Coordination

• Lead, coordinate and monitor the daily activities of the NL & Claims Guidewire IT team on initiatives and on Production Maintenance.
• Ability to develop both delivery and resource plans when delivering bugfixes in Production, acting here in Production Maintenance mode.
• Take on the role of test coordinator for the team and coordinate that the appropriate tests are executed qualitatively as quality gate for release.
• Take on the role of release coordinator for the team and liaise closely with IT Release Management to agree on the steps of ‘delivery to production’ (Implementation Plan).
• Supports the team’s delivery of the implementation plans.
• Is present and follow up the releases to production according to the implementation plans.
• Regular contact with the Product Owners (PO’s) & Project Managers (PM’s) to align on the correct priorities.
• Help the PO’s & PM’s to describe work packages and identify the teams needed to deliver them.
• Regular contact with his/her (Delegated) Service Manager regarding team capacity management and needs.
• Regular contact with his/her (Delegated) Service Manager regarding any escalation he/she would deem as necessary e.g. resource behaviour, resource capacity shortcomings, team competences, ...
• Coordinate with other Scrum Masters to synchronise a timely delivery of activities related to transversal initiatives.
• Create dashboards or other follow-up tools to provide transparency & follow up.
• Help the team where appropriate to become more effective, efficient, and productive.
• Act as a facilitator to increase collaboration - break down silos.
• Regularly report information such as velocity, the operational costs (man-days) & PM reporting.
• Organize and conduct the Agile Ceremonies, such as: daily’s, retro’s, backlog refinements, demo’s, planning, estimates, retrospectives.

SPOC and communication

• Act as a sounding board when questions or problems arise around analysis, development, testing, releases, resource capacity and resource availability in close collaboration with the competence manager.
• Representation of the team towards Management & Business (e.g. Sprint reviews).
• Answer questions & solve impediments, building bridges between the different stakeholders within IT & Business.
• Act as a SPOC for important initiative alignment meetings such as the "Scrum of scrums”.
• Discuss things that are considered crucial to get to results.

Continuous Improvement

• Continuously improve the way of working of the teams by using the input of the grooming’s, planning’s & retros on a regular basis.
• Align well with other Scrum Masters on the way of working and come with new ideas to work together and with the team.
• Attend the community sessions & scrum meetings with Scrum Master colleagues regularly.

Is this you?

• “Language: 3-lingual NL - FR - EN:
• Good communication skills in Dutch AND French, with excellent verbal and written communication in English!
• Proven experience as Scrum Master (at least 5 years)
• Knowledge of JIRA
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience with working in a (Hybrid) Agile way.
• Knowledge of Prince 2 principles to understand our Hybrid Agile methodology (Prince 2 + Agile)
• Can work in a flexible way, with different methodologies, various nationalities, partners, ...
• Able to make the link where necessary between team actors such as developers, testers, analysts
• Solution mindset
• Committed
• Able to get to know the organization and the culture rapidly
• Proactive personality
• Open mindset and being able to work with different personalities
• Strong communication skills
• Strong reporting skills
• A supportive servant leader: strong in people management, being a part of the team while strengthening the team
• Support on setting priorities for the team, ability to challenge the work priorities, discuss delivery and proposed deadlines when needed, assertive yet diplomatic approach

Nice to have:

• Experience with Enterprise Architecture
• Experience in the insurance industry
• Experience as Project Manager

How afarax supports you?

• You benefit from our extensive network
• You will have access to projects that fit your expertise
• We help and support you throughout your project
• We offer the possibility to build a valuable and lasting partnership

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