Job Description
Scrum Master Location Remote in United States : Introduction Bellese Technologies is looking for someone with a passion for solving big problems in healthcare. We foster a learning environment that thrives on curiosity, innovation, and passion about improving healthcare in America. Our remote-first team is spread across 20+ states and leverages exceptional collaboration to amplify our strengths. We provide an environment focused around helping you achieve your goals. Because when you succeed, we all succeed. The Bellese Team is charged with supporting CMS in their effort to modernize the Medicare Payment System. We employ a research-driven, user-centered, agile, and adaptive product development approach to deliver modern and standards-based solutions. This effort empowers CMS to provide responsive, correct, and accessible systems and processes for processing payments. The team works very closely with our CMS customer teams, as well as other teams in the modernization effort. This is a technical project management position to plan and manage product deliveries throughout the development and release lifecycle, following lean and agile practices. The Scrum Master knows how to manage a continuous product backlog grooming process in collaboration with product managers, the integrated product team and other stakeholders. The Scrum Master helps identify, coordinate and manage dependencies across teams and performs active risk management throughout the development and release lifecycle. The ideal candidate has experience with lean work management practices, including Scrum, SAFe and Kanban and can facilitate communication between the customer and the product team to ensure quarterly objectives are being fulfilled. The Scrum Master develops and manages product release plans, consisting of frequent production releases, usability testing with users, management of feedback throughout lower environments and production releases.
Responsibilities - Ability to develop release plans, accounting for product owner's prioritization of the backlog, team's velocity and quarterly objectives and customer's deadlines.
- Ability to perform active risk management throughout the development and release lifecycle
- Ability to work with the product team to manage a continuous product backlog grooming process
- Ability to work within a lean UX and lean engineering culture
- Possess a strong attention to detail
- Demonstrate flexibility in day-to-day work
- Demonstrate strong collaboration and teaming skills. The ability to listen and consider input from other team members
- Jira, using Atlassian Jira to increase the efficiency of, and transparency into, the work management of an agile software development team.
Qualifications
- Facilitate agile team ceremonies for 2 scrum teams, ensuring that all ceremonies take place and are positive, productive, and within the timebox.
- Responsible for the removal of impediments to the team's progress. Identify bottlenecks or conflicts and find solutions, keeping team members on task. Foster a positive, goal-oriented teaming environment.
- Use agile and lean tools and techniques to help the team keep a delivery and learning cadence that helps to remain focused on delivering value against the product vision.
- Is concerned with the health and happiness of the team members and how they work together
- Plan and facilitate product discussions to align on and refine acceptance criteria and estimate user stories
- Govern the “Definition of Done” process to ensure product and engineering goals are being fulfilled, including, but not limited to: automated test results, security test results, automated CI and CD results, security review and approval, usability testing and contractual deliverables. Work with the product development teams to address gaps in fulfilling “Done”.
- Apply transparent quantitative management techniques that create opportunities for team learning and self-improvement
- Develop and manage product release plans, coordinating release and deployment scheduling and execution
- Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline
- 6 or more years of professional experience
Nice to have
- Experience working on government contracts with Federal stakeholders
- Prior experience with CMS
- Advanced Jira skills, including Jira automations
- Healthcare product management
Bellese offers
- Three weeks paid leave
- Flexible Schedule and Remote-First culture
- $3000 annual education stipend
- Work from home setup including Macbook (possibly used/refurbished)
- Collaborative, learning environment
- Health insurance
- 401K Plan with Safe Harbor contribution
Other: Executive Order requiring COVID safety protocols Bellese employees are Federal Workers and are subject to Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, dated September 9, 2021 (published in the Federal Register on September 14, 2021, 86 FR 50985). As condition of employment, employees will need to provide either: a: proof of completed COVID vaccinations OR b: have an approved medical or religious exemption and proof of weekly COVID testing. U.S. citizen or legal right to work in the United States without sponsorship Bellese Technologies, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. In addition to federal law requirements, Bellese Technologies, LLC complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. EEO is the law: EEO is the Law Poster Supplement Pay Transparency:
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