Scrum Master, Senior
Blue Shield of California · Oakland, California, United States
Your Role
As a Scrum Master at Stellarus, you'll play a critical role in accelerating the delivery of innovative healthcare solutions by empowering Agile teams to do their best work. Serving as a coach, facilitator, and servant leader, you'll help teams embrace Lean-Agile practices, remove obstacles, drive continuous improvement, and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation. By enabling high-performing teams to deliver value faster and more effectively, you'll directly contribute to Stellarus' mission of transforming the healthcare experience through technology and data-driven solutions.
Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- Serve as Scrum Master and Agile Coach for one or more Agile teams.
- Facilitate planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and other team delivery activities.
- Coach teams on Agile, Lean, Scrum, and Kanban principles and practices.
- Partner with Product Owners to maintain backlog health, prioritization, and planning readiness.
- Identify and remove team-level impediments that impact delivery and productivity.
- Monitor and improve flow metrics such as cycle time, throughput, and work in progress.
- Promote engineering excellence, quality practices, automation, and continuous improvement.
- Foster collaboration across Product, Engineering, QA, and other stakeholder groups.
- Provide transparency into team progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.
- Support Agile maturity through data-driven coaching, feedback, and continuous learning.
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Requires bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Project Manager, or related delivery leadership role
- Experience supporting Agile software development teams.
- Working knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Agile delivery practices.
- Experience facilitating Agile events and coaching delivery teams.
- Strong communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience using Agile delivery tools such as Jira or similar platforms.
- Valid Certifications: CSM, PSM I/II, ICAgile, SAFe, or equivalent Agile certifications strongly preferred.
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