Job Description

Date Opened: Sep 12, 2022 Location: IN Company: Allstate Insurance Company

In this role, you have the opportunity to be a true leader who serve the Agile team as well as the broader organization on how to use agile practices in a software development environment. You will develop new insurance related products & platforms through implementing Agile practices within multidisciplinary setup. You will also communicate with stakeholders, escalate or remove impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.

Job Responsibilities

Role and Responsibilities

• Strongly serving the Product Owner and Development Team in their quest to become self-managed team that is responsible and accountable to deliver business values
• Assessing and leading agile team, organization and coaching to higher level of agile maturity
• Effective facilitation of Scrum events
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments
• Be an Agile evangelist who understands and promote Agile values and principles
• Assisting with internal and external communication, to improve transparency quotient
• Being aware of cutting-edge technology, development and quality practices and help the team driving continuous improvement in these areas
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

Primary Skills

Primary Skills

• 1st level Scrum Master certification (CSM/PSM I)
• Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 3+ years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum values, practices, and theory.
• Working Knowledge of other Agile approaches: SAFe, XP, Kanban
• Must have prior development/ Testing experience
• Good skills and knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

Experience

7 – 10 yrs

Shift Timing

As per requirement