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Join a team of diverse professionals at farmers to acquire skills on the job and apply your learned knowledge to future roles at farmersFarmers insurance also offers extensive training opportunities through the award winning university of farmers named by training magazine amongst top 10 corporate training units in the world.
Job summary
Consistently demonstrates intermediate qualities of a servant leader and enables teams to deliver via effective lean-agile practicesCoordinates with internal and external teams to resolve dependencies, identify and eliminate impediments, and facilitate flowPlaces focus on continually improving team dynamics and performance while assisting the team in managing interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and exploit opportunities for team growthProvides ongoing coaching and of lean-agile principles and ensure teams maintain a lean-agile mindset.
Essential job functions
Acts as a servant leader for multiple teams and their stakeholdersAids the team and product owner in efforts to manage and sequence the backlogLeads moderately complex teams with work involving routine external team impact or dependencies and may have multiple system integration pointsEliminates impediments and resolves issues with occasional support from release train engineer or other resourcesResolves and manages dependencies with occasional guidance from release train engineer or other resourcesAssists in building a high- performing team and foster relentless improvement at the team level while improving team performance in areas of quality, predictability, flow and velocityIdentifies safe anti-patterns and resolves with occasional support and applies safe principles to facilitation, enablement, and coaching for teamUtilizes intermediate coaching capabilities to influence teams and help coach on practices and procedures, soft-skills and lean agile mind-setWith occasional support from rte and other resources guides teams through the decision making process and teaches techniques on how to problem solve, improve communication, self-manage and self-organizeWith occasional support from rte and other resources, supports a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raisedHelps manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges and opportunities for growth within the team.
Applies safe principles to facilitation, enablement, and coaching for a single teamMentors and guides junior level scrum masters on safe principles and manifestoOrganizes and leads a community of practiceIndependently participates, facilitates and manages the outputs of all agile ceremonies including daily stand up meetings, sprint review, sprint retrospective, sprint planning, backlog refinement sessions, prepare for program increment planning sessionsParticipates in the scrum master communities of practice, scrum mastery sync sessions and agile release train sync sessionsMentors and guides junior level scrum masters through agile ceremoniesDemonstrates ongoing thirst for knowledge and a desire for continuous improvement by creating an environment for continuous learning and pursue everything agile (e.gVisit user groups, attend conferences, read books, write blogs, etc.).
Continuously works with the scrum master community of practice to ensure standard procedures are in place and ultimately improve the organizations` product delivery capabilitySeeks advice and works occasionally with the release train engineer to establish best practices and resolve challenging issues, risks, conflicts or impedimentsDemonstrate beginner to intermediate experience with behavior driven development and test driven developmentPerforms other duties as assigned.
Physical actions
Physical environment
The following are standard requirements for all positionsWhen applicable, some positions may have additional requirements essential to a specific jobThis position operates in an open office working environment which will include normal and customary distractions, noise, and interruptionsSits or stands for extended periods of time, up to a full work shiftOccasionally reaches overhead and below the knees, including bending, twisting, pulling, and stoopingOccasionally moves, lifts, carries, and places objects and supplies weighing 0-10 pounds without assistanceListens to, interprets, and differentiates auditory information (e.gOthers speaking) at normal speaking levels with or without correctionVisually verifies and reads informationVisually locates material, resources and other objectsAbility to operate a computer for extended periods of time, up to a full work shiftPhysical dexterity sufficient to use hands, arms, and shoulders repetitively to operate keyboard and other office equipment up to a full work shift.
Education requirements
Bachelor`s degree or equivalent experience preferred.
Safe certified scrum master certification (within 180 days of hire) required.
Safe certified practitioner or agilist (within 180 days of hire) preferred.
Experience requirements
1-3 years in an agile environment or 4+ years of experience in a project environment required.
Minimum 2 years experience in scrum master role or 1 year in scrum master level i or 4+ years experience in servant leader role required.
Special skill requirement
Ability to influence internal and/or external constituents.
Cultivates a culture of trust, promotes decentralized decision making and advance the development of self-organizing teams.
Instills commitment to organizational goals.
Focuses on improving team dynamics and performance.
Helps teams manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and overcome opportunities for team growth.
Effectively coaches and delivers constructive feedback.
Provides ongoing coaching and of the lean-agile principles and ensures teams maintain a lean-agile mindset.
Strong verbal communication and listening skills.
Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.
Excellent organizational skills.
Develops and delivers effective presentations.
Performs work independently with minimal supervision.
Takes initiative and is a self starter.
Additional qualification
Familiarity with java, mainframe and other technologies.
Facilitating technical discussions with the other teams.
Collecting specifications and creating infrastructure requests.
Coordinating offshore calls and communicatoins between onsite and offshore team members.
Ability to formalize project plans as required when interacting with non-agile teams.
Ability to create flowcharts to depict technical and process flows.
Participate in validations and reviewing test plans.
Ability to write sql, gather data/logs and other technical configurations for review when needed.
Provisioning access to agile team members to different tools / resource provisioned by the team.
Ability to review and understand code.
Ability to find solutions when faced with challenges/impediments.
Benefits
Farmers offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience, qualifications and location
Co only: the pay range for this job being performed in co would be 81,100 – 108,000
Bonus opportunity (based on company and individual performance)
401(k)
Medical
Dental
Vision
Health savings and flexible spending accounts
Life insurance
Paid time off
Paid parental leave
Tuition assistance
Job location(s): us - rw - remote work - farmers
