Agile Scrum Master

Position Overview:

CuraScript SD a wholesale pharmaceutical distributor that provides customized business solutions and access to specialty drugs to community physicians, specialty pharmacies, and health systems; it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Express Scripts, Inc.

- a Cigna Company.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Scrum Master to join our technology team.

The Scrum Master serves as a key facilitator and collaborator focusing specifically on coordinating activities within the Agile Team Level of Coordination.

In this role, the Scrum Master facilitates the smooth execution of team-level work, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and customer needs.

Working closely within and with other cross-functional teams, the Scrum Master oversees the coordination and implementation of Stories.

Responsibilities:


* Maintain a solid understanding of assigned product roadmaps


* Partners with one or more Chief Technical Owners (CTPO) and Technical Product Owners (TPO)


* Identifies and collaborates with CTPO/TPO in prioritization and planning conversations.

Ensures alignment to strategy, roadmap, priorities (business and technology), scheduling constraints, and capacity.


* Attends appropriate Story meetings to represent delivery within the aligned Agile Program


* Ensures team members have context of the relevant Features, including value, within their Agile Team(s)


* Ensures team members have awareness of team and Agile Program dependencies, constraints, and impediments


* Ensures stories meet the Definition of Ready (DoR) before the work is started


* Supports the continuous definition, decomposition, right-sizing, planning, and delivery of Stories.

Ensures these activities occur in alignment with PI Planning Milestones


* Ensures collaboration occurs amongst key personnel and all are aligned (including but not limited to product, architecture, business partners)


* Serves as point of escalation to address issues, impediments, and conflicts for all Stories being managed


* Ensures all Stories being managed retain their visibility and timely movement across their Jira Board, while ensuring WIP limits are respected


* Fosters an environment of Continuous Improvement using appropriate measures and metrics including Burn-Up, Control Chart, Delivery Predictability, Defect Ratios, and Story Cycle Time in alignment with Enterprise Operating Model.


* Ensures backlog maintenance occurs on a regular cadence


* Ensures Stories meet the Definition of Done (DoD) before the work is accepted


* Attends and participates in all relevant work intake discussions and ceremonies


* Reviews Jira Story data to ensure it aligns with quality standards


* Owns and facilitates relevant ceremonies


* Engages with and provide support for releases and deployments as needed


* Acts as a servant leader and ensures alignment with appropriate Enterprise Operating Model (EOM) proc...