Sr. Scrum Master
Company: Travelers
Location: Trenton
Posted on: January 25, 2023
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Job Description:
**Who Are We?**Taking care of our customers, our communities and
each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this
commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best
property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join
us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives
on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do
it.**Job Category**Technology**Compensation Overview**The annual
base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market
range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across
the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined
by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and
location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials
and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of
employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits
program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash
incentive awards.**Salary Range**$100,600.00 - $166,100.00**Target
Openings**1**What Is the Opportunity?**Travelers is seeking a Sr.
Scrum Master/Sr. Kanban Master to join our organization as we grow
and transform our Agile landscape. In this position, you will
leverage your expertise to lead Agile practices at the team level
for multiple teams, assist with managing the flow of work,
creatively solve problems to accomplish outcomes, track team output
and achievement, and identify continuous process improvement
opportunities.**What Will You Do?**+ Practice and encourage Agile
mindset and behaviors; coach, inspire and mentor teams on Agile
principles, values and practices while role modeling Travelers'
leadership behaviors.+ Independently lead the application of Agile
practices for multiple teams. Practices may be Scrum and/or Kanban
based. Actions often visualizing work, limiting work in progress,
managing work flow, planning and guidance for daily stand ups,
sprint planning, short, mid, and long range planning, backlog
refinement, and retrospective meetings.+ Ensure progress toward
objectives, KPIs and commitments; guide assigned Agile teams to
deliver the required product increments and outcomes.+ Partner with
key stakeholders (i.e. Agile Coach and Team Lead) in backlog
prioritization as well as tracking and reporting metrics, providing
visibility to the team and stakeholders, ensuring a data-driven
approach to decision-making.+ Identify opportunities to improve
team-level Agile performance; focus teams on customer value,
quality and continuous improvement activities. Remove team-level
impediments and resolve conflicts; anticipate challenges, identify
risks, and recommend mitigations and solutions.+ Utilize learnings
and best practices in furthering the effective use of Agile
practices at Travelers.+ Facilitate open communication among team
members and stakeholders; promote positive team dynamics to ensure
members collaborate and work effectively.+ Build and leverage
effective alliances across other teams and the technical and
business communities.+ Partner with Circle Leadership on PI
planning activities, organizing and leading PI ceremonies.+
Participate and actively contribute to the Agile Community,
partnering closely with Agile Coaches and Leadership to Evolve the
Way We Work.+ Increase the overall Agile maturity for teams, and
support higher complexity work towards successful outcomes.+
Supports Agile team(s) that have various levels of agile maturity;
actively works to upskill those teams in agile practices and
increases their overall agile maturity.+ Demonstrates ability to
lead and influence by enhancing Circle-wide agile practices.+ May
also play a scrum-of-scrum role, managing the flow of work through
an entire Circle rather than on an individual team or teams.+
Perform other duties as assigned.**What Will Our Ideal Candidate
Have?**+ Bachelor's degree preferred.+ Three years' experience in a
Scrum Master or similar Agile role applying Agile principles and
practices including delivery of several epics, releases and
versions and application of a wide variety of patterns and
techniques (i.e. leveraging burndown, facilitating retrospectives,
refining user stories, etc.) preferred.+ Programming/development
experience preferred.+ Experience implementing best practices and
standards related to Agile product development preferred.+
Experience leading others with the ability to earn trust while
still challenging the team to improve and operate outside its
comfort zone in an Agile environment preferred.+ Agile Mindset:
Embody Agile core values of openness, courage, respect, focus, and
commitment. Infuse Agile principles, practices and methodologies to
achieve team success.+ Project Management: Ability to initiate,
plan, execute, and guide the work of a team to achieve specific
goals and meet specific success criteria within a specified time.+
Influence: Ability to influence leaders at all levels and without
traditional hierarchy.+ Servant Leadership: Foster an environment
where individuals thrive as empowered and equal members of a team.+
Communication: Ability to communicate thoughts, concepts and
practices effectively at all levels, adjusting as needed to a
target audience.+ Collaboration: Expertise working with others in a
cross-functional multi-team environment.+ Continuous Improvement:
Demonstrate a commitment to continually improve, share learning
with others and encourage team development.**What is a Must
Have?**+ 3 years of project management or related experience
required.**What Is in It for You?**+ **Health Insurance:**
Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses,
domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from
the first day of employment.+ **Retirement:** Travelers matches
your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of
eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student
loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program.
When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will
make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also
eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.+
**Paid Time Off:** Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of
20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.+
**Wellness Program:** The Travelers wellness program is comprised
of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness
goals. In addition, our Life Balance program provides access to
professional counseling services, life coaching and other resources
to support your daily life needs. Through Life Balance, you're
eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed
therapist.+ **Volunteer Encouragement:** We have a deep commitment
to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get
involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards
program that enables you to give back to the charity of your
choice.**Employment Practices**Travelers is an equal opportunity
employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual
brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in
numerous ways from our differences.If you are a candidate and have
specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this
role, please send us an email (4-ESU@travelers.com) so we may
assist you.Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a
level above or below the level included in this posting.To learn
more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit
http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/ .
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