Sr Scrum Master - Insurance

This role will be part of the Insurance portfolio supporting our membershipbased Life Health and Annuity contracts. The Scrum Master II is a servant leader who helps teams follow Scrum. The Scrum Master II has expert level understanding of the Scrum framework Scrum values Agile principles and values in the Agile manifesto. This person is sought out to coach other teams on the subtleties of Scrum.

They partner effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment of priorities and product delivery planning and executing on product tasks and driving for results through both product team members and stakeholders. They leverage technical/functional subject matter experts to maximize velocity for product completion carefully balancing the three constraints of cost time and scope to best suit the needs of the business and the enterprise.

They ensure accountability transparency and regularity in product status updates. They serve as a leader in the deployment of Agile methodology and processes for assigned line of business product being supported by Information Technology.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides expert consulting to the Product Owner in building and maintaining the product roadmap release plan and strategic product roadmap based on the priorities set by the Product Owner and input from the Team.
• Responsible for leading multiple product teams or large initiatives monitoring progress across all products to ensure on target and providing needed support to remove obstacles to achieving product deliverables.
• Responsible for leading product teams and managing all activities (including strategy and ideation) in a product lifecycle (initiation planning executing/controlling and closing) associated with high visibility products that are longterm across one or more lines of business and carry a substantial impact to the relevant businesses.
• Foster selforganization and cross team collaboration. Enable the Team to make decisions and remove decision making barriers whenever possible. Facilitate discussion decision making and conflict resolution
• Identify areas for process improvement and establishes effective and efficient processes by analyzing current and new product management processes.
• Provide leadership to assigned product managers to establish product plans and objectives that result in ontime and onbudget outcome. Track progress and provide updates on any changes in strategy or priorities.
• Effectively communicate relevant status and initiative level metrics to senior executives on the progress of individual products and the overall initiative.
• Establishes and maintains a strong partnership with internal customers to fully understand the business and their business needs. Work cross functionally in a matrixed environment to drive partnerships to achieve shared goals.
• Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile center of excellence. Actively contribute to the companys Agile and Product Community. Keep the rest of the company network aware of our activities
• Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organizations direction (Product/Agile/DevOps))
• Models Thrivents leadership competencies courage collaboration and commitment by demonstrating resiliency working together to make the best decisions and holding yourself and others accountable.
• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement exceptional employee engagement and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose promise and values ensuring that Thrivents trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Required:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Business or other technical related field or equivalent work experience
• 46 years in a lead role on projects scrum teams and/or business lead initiatives at least 3 years as a ScrumMaster or related experience
• Understand fundamentals of iterative development software development process and procedures
• Expertise with common Agile practices serviceoriented environments and better development practices
• High level of organization and attention to detail
• Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
• Excellent communication collaboration and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills.
• Strong ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicting priorities

Preferred:

• Experience leading agile teams in SAFe Scrum or Kanban contexts
• Certified Scrum Master or similar certification
• Masters degree in a related field
• Experience managing essential risk mitigation activities including identification tracking followup escalation and contingency planning on risks issues
• Demonstrates mastery of software development processes and procedures including test driven development incremental development approaches and technical change management.
• Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams even outside direct reporting relationships.
• Experience developing and implementing initiative and product level performance metrics
• Experience working in large complex organizational initiatives
• Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel
• Adept at financial management to administer budgets across multiple products and ensure the product meets its requirements for return on investment.

Pay Transparency

Thrivents longterm growth depends on attracting rewarding and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract reward and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this fulltime role is $124010.00 $167778.00 per year which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to location relevant experience skills and knowledge business needs market demand and other factors Thrivent deems important.

Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.

The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including for example annual or longterm incentives); medical dental and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; wellbeing benefits and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivents plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivents discretion.

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race religion color sex gender identity sexual orientation pregnancy national origin age disability marital status citizenship status military or veteran status genetic information or any other status protected by applicable local state or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation please let us know by sending an email toor calland request Human Resources.