Scrum Master

3 weeks ago

Richmond, United States Genworth Full time

At Genworth, we empower families to navigate the aging journey with confidence. We are compassionate, experienced allies for those navigating care with guidance, products, and services that meet families where they are. Further, we are the spouses, children, siblings, friends, and neighbors of those that need care—and we bring those experiences with us to work in serving our millions of policyholders each day.

Our four values guide our strategy, our decisions, and our interactions:

- ** Make it human. **We care about the people that make up our customers, colleagues, and communities.
- ** Make it about others. **We do what's best for our customers and collaborate to drive progress.
- ** Make it happen. **We work with intention toward a common purpose and forge ways forward together.
- ** Make it better. **We create fulfilling purpose-driven careers by learning from the world and each other.

**POSITION TITLE**

Scrum Master

**POSITION LOCATION**

Richmond, VA (hybrid)

Lynchburg, VA (hybrid)

**YOUR ROLE**

**What you will be doing**
- Coach Product Owners and Development Teams in effective Product Backlog management so that they have a common understanding of what is to be delivered, why it needs to be delivered and what success looks like.
- Coach Development Teams in self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, risk identification, dependency management, conflict resolution and software craftsmanship.
- Work with Product Owners and Development Teams to ensure the transparency of team artifacts, including the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Product Increment
- Coach others in the organization regarding Agile practices and impacts that actions have on the team and its self-organization (i.e. managers, stakeholders, Product Managers, Program Managers, etc.)
- Help teams continuously improve their interactions, practices and process
- Help teams improve with facilitated conversations, metrics, feedback loops and information radiators
- Help teams adhere to Agile processes and practices by demonstrating the benefits they bring to the team and the enterprise
- Facilitate team and enterprise maturity assessments
- Develop, maintain, and communicate Enterprise Agile Standards, as well as other Enterprise Level Software Development Standards. This includes ownership of how the standards map to tools.

**What you bring**
- At least 3 years of experience using the Agile principals and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and principles of agility
- At least 1 year experience as a Scrum Master/Agile Coach for a software development team
- Passion for continuous learning regarding Agile, Scrum, coaching, facilitating, emotional intelligence, team dynamics, listening, etc.
- Experience teaching and/or mentoring team(s)
- Proven leadership skills, specifically leading by example (true leader)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills across all levels from senior business leadership to technical resources
- Proven organizational, prioritization, and time management skills with the ability to achieve deadlines under minimum supervision
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to identify areas of improvement and make sound recommendations to solve problems
- Ability to communicate with and influence a variety of audiences including IT developers, business analysts, business partners, stakeholders, and management
- Ability to observe business situations, recognize roadblocks and coach to remove the roadblocks
- Experience with technology development or a strong working knowledge of the development life cycle and general programming principles
- Certified Scrum Master

**Preferred**
- 3 Years of IT Experience
- Familiarity with the concepts of Agile Kanban
- Familiarity with the concepts of Agile Scaling
- Experience using an Agile tool such as Jira, Digital.ai Agility, or ServiceNow
- Experience facilitating working sessions between different groups of stakeholders

**Employee Benefits & Well-Being**

Genworth employees make a difference in people’s lives every day. We’re committed to making a difference in our employees’ lives.
- Competitive Compensation & Total Rewards Incentives
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage
- Multiple 401(k) Savings Plan Options
- Auto Enrollment in Employer-Directed Retirement Account Feature (100% employer-funded)
- Generous Paid Time Off - Including 12 Paid Holidays, Volunteer Time Off and Paid Family Leave
- Disability, Life, and Long Term Care Insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement, Student Loan Repayment and Training & Certification Support
- Wellness support including gym membership reimbursement and Employee Assistance Program resources (work/life support, financial & legal management)
- Caregiver and Mental Health Support Services

**ADDITIONAL**
- At this time, Genworth will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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