Scrum Master- Property and Commercial Insurance

Job Title: Scrum Master- P&C insurance

Location: Atlanta, GA/ Charlotte, NC (3 days a week onsite)

Hiring Mode: C2C

Job Description

Core Skills:

• 5-8 years of Property and Commercial insurance experience
• Strong experience with P&C Insurance industry
• Certified as a Scrum Master (CSM) & hold SAFe certification
• Significant experience as a dedicated Scrum Master, helping development teams apply Agile, Scrum/SAFe & DevSecOps practices
• Coaching two Scrum teams to achieve greater Agile maturity while maintaining a sustainable and productive development pace
• Facilitating all Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, to keep the teams aligned & on track
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums and facilitate Program Increment (PI) execution
• Work alongside the product owner as a key team leader to proactively identify and resolve potential challenges before they arise
• Maintain relevant metrics that report on progress (e.g., burndown charts, defect trends, user story/feature completion rates, capacity, velocity)
• Supporting and enabling product owners in managing backlogs, refining user stories, and ensuring priorities are clear to drive successful sprint outcomes, in line with business KPIs
• Anticipating and resolving obstacles that hinder progress, enabling teams to focus on their goals and deliver value consistently
• Acting as a change agent, advocating for Agile principles and best practices across teams and the organization
• Coaching team towards self-organization within SAFe
• Foster internal team communication by building a trusting and safe environment where the emphasis is on problem-solving
• Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution
• Influence stakeholders’ including leaders’ Agile behaviors through direct feedback and guidance
• Engage with individual squad members and groups to identify opportunities to improve Agile performance and practices and enhance Agile mindset

What is Needed to be Successful:

• Strong leadership skills, with a track record of proactively driving process improvements and solving problems for the product team to enhance ability to deliver value
• Ability to create value for the product by actively anticipating and resolving issues
• Proficient in Agile methodologies and experienced in proactively identifying and removing roadblocks to help teams maintain and enhance momentum
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a proven ability to lead Agile ceremonies and track progress metrics (i.e., burndown charts, velocity, and user story completion rates)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling trust-building within teams and effective collaboration between team members and stakeholders across the business
• Effective and experienced coach, capable of guiding teams to be self-organizing and achieve their objectives
• Passionate about Agile and experienced in highly matrixed organizations were influencing without direct authority is key to success
• Involved with Agile Release Train / acted as a Release Train Engineer
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence and how it can be applied in insurance and beyond
• Work alongside talented colleagues, innovating and contributing to projects that will transform how we manage risk and serve our customers