Job Description

Position will be remote and can be located anywhere in the US, hours of work EST.
The Scrum Master will be responsible for supporting the agile transformation and successful delivery for one or more agile teams. They will provide leadership and coaching to the team(s) they support to encourage adoption of agile principles and practices while empowering the team to grow towards becoming self-directed and self-managing. They will work to establish a safe team environment to allow for problems to be addressed with a focus on problem solving.

Desired Traits:
Passionate about continually learning new tools and techniques to support the team and encourages others to do so as well.
Proactive, with the ability to adjust or flex approach based upon the situation at hand.
Ability to earn the team\xe2\x80\x99s respect and lead by example.
Ability to promote and educate agile / Scrum concepts and principles at the team level.
Ability to partner and build relationships across the organization to collaboratively achieve goals.
Ability to facilitate and support discussion and conflict resolution at the team level.
Ability to promote a safe environment for constructive dialogue to encourage continual growth and improvement.
Ability to communicate effectively and concisely with team members, program team members, and stakeholders.
Ability to guide a team with diverse personalities and approaches toward becoming self-organizing and self-managing.

Key Responsibilities:
Act as a Scrum Master for one or more distributed agile teams.
Support the team through servant leadership, leading by example.
Establish, support and facilitate team level cadence and ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand up, retrospectives, backlog refinement, etc.
Provide coaching and guidance to the team to support adoption of agile values, principles and practices.
Provide coaching and support to Product Owner in maintaining and refining product backlog.
Support Product Owner in prioritization and forecasting of roadmap based on team velocity and stakeholder requests.
Support the team in establishing realistic and achievable delivery commitments while operating at a sustainable pace.
Act as an accountability partner to support the team in predictably delivering upon their commitments.
Enables team to self-organize around removing their own impediments / blockers and escalates those that the team could not remove themselves.
Facilitate, encourage and support cross-team coordination and collaboration.
Act as a change agent and help to build and support a learning environment for continual growth.
Maintain metrics and data necessary to provide visibility on progress, quality and value to stakeholders.
Participate in and contribute to internal agile communities of practices and/or Scrum Master Forums.

Required Experience / Qualifications
1-3 years of experience as a Scrum Master on a Scrum team.
3-5 years of experience in IT.

Desired Experience / Qualifications
Industry certifications such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), or SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM).
Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Experience with Jira.
Healthcare experience.
Experience promoting agile engineering practices such as pair programming, continuous delivery, TDD, etc.
Experience acting as a Scrum Master for multiple distributed teams.
Experience leading agile adoption at the team level.

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About The Cigna Group
Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we\xe2\x80\x99re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.