[Remote] Scrum Master - Optum Experience is a plus
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vytwo Technologies Inc. is seeking a Scrum Master to facilitate Agile team events and guide the team through planning and execution. The role involves coaching team members in Scrum and Kanban practices, promoting self-organization, and ensuring effective communication of requirements and priorities.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate Agile team events, including Daily Stand ups, Iteration Planning, Iteration Reviews, and Iteration Retrospectives, ensuring meetings are productive and conducted within established timeboxes
- Guide the Agile team through planning, execution, review, and reflection activities to support consistent delivery
- Coach team members in Scrum, Kanban, and quality practices
- Promote and reinforce self organization and self management within the Agile team
- Mentor team members to foster a continuous learning mindset and encourage independent problem solving
- Identify and help eliminate bottlenecks, delays, and waste to improve team workflow efficiency
- Assist the Agile team in meeting delivery goals and maintaining focus on iteration and PI objectives
- Support the Product Owner in backlog management and prioritization activities
- Ensure requirements and priorities are clearly communicated and understood by the team
- Facilitate healthy team dynamics around scope, priorities, and commitments
- Collaborate with other Scrum Masters and the Release Train Engineer (RTE) during PI Planning and ART level events
- Support coordination and alignment across Agile Teams within the ART
- Analyze team performance metrics, delivery progress, and key performance indicators
- Guide the team in using metrics and insights to address challenges and improve execution
- Facilitate retrospectives focused on continuous improvement and value delivery
Skills
- Previous Optum Experience is Required
- 3 years of residential requirements in the US
- Experience working as a Scrum Master and solid working knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Agile practices
- Experience supporting Agile Release Trains and participating in PI Planning activities
- Experience analyzing team metrics and using data to guide team improvement and delivery outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently on ambiguous, high impact initiatives with executive visibility
- Demonstrated ability to coach teams on Agile practices, self organization, and continuous improvement
- Proven ability to collaborate with Product Owners, Release Train Engineers, and other Scrum Masters
- Proven solid strategic thinking, analytical problem solving, and stakeholder influence skills
- Proven solid facilitation skills with the ability to lead effective, time boxed Agile ceremonies
- Experience in regulated or healthcare environments
- Experience working within a SAFe or scaled Agile environment
- Experience using AI assisted tools to support Agile delivery activities such as backlog refinement, planning, retrospectives, and flow analysis, while ensuring human ownership and decision making remain intact
- Experience in Agentic Scrum integrating AI agents into Agile
- Experience using AI-powered tools to automate reporting and track performance metrics
Company Overview
- Vytwo Technologies is a globally recognized enterprise applications integrator. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://vytwo.com/.