Scrum Master jobs in Minnesota

While the day-to-day will be primarily scrum master work managing development team activities/ceremonies, there are other responsibilities such as driving product epic/feature readiness, test coordination, working across partner teams, release management, go/no-go. These are things that may not appear to be scrum master responsibilities to some, but we have included them in the definition of “delivery manager”.

• Content automation – building capabilities for our applications to generate content automatically leveraging AI/LLMs; this is an internal pilot that’s growing to a full scale team this year.
• Ensures requirements are captured, validated, maintained, managed, and tracked.  
• Plans and coordinates to ensure team processes are in place, works with product managers to define and maintain product roadmaps, and manages resource allocation and forecasting to deliver projects.
• Drives product delivery through financial, development and resource management.
• Identifies and manages dependencies between teams and between products, platforms, and operations.
• Reports on product progress and resolves or escalates risks and issues. 
• Coordinates release management to align with other initiatives and stakeholder needs.
• Knowledgeable and skilled in Agile product life-cycle management.
• Enables the product and engineering/IT teams to 'get work done' by removing obstacles. 
• Negotiates, plans, and manages the release windows and cycles across a portfolio.
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality.
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations.
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates. 
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations. 
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews.
• Produce Deployment, Run Books, and Implementation Plans. Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required. 
• Maintains the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process. 
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
• Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
• Manage initiatives across several development teams (external & internal) with multiple matrixed stakeholder groups within a complex multi-layered governance structure.
• Work has high to very high-risk interdependencies and may have major costs associated.
• Able to work across multiple products, managing complex initiatives, along with ongoing releases and new product development.
• Able to build a release process and framework which relies on Agile principles and engineering CI/CD best practices.

• Understands and applies current digital technology design, build and operations capabilities and requirements leveraging Agile product methodologies.
• Able to effectively communicate/ translate a product vision, strategy and design amongst product, engineering/IT, UX/UI, Operations teams.
• Continuously seeks to understand new and emerging digital technologies and health care products and adapts work processes to reflect changes in design, build and delivery approaches.
• Understands and creatively problem-solves to remove obstacles to enable digital product delivery (on-time, within budget, and fulfilling documented requirements).
• Possesses technical knowledge and expertise working with engineering/IT teams. 
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships at multiple levels of the organization.
• Effective (or Strong) communicator (written & verbal) with active listening skills.
• Ability to facilitate small group/team discussions.
• Strong planning & organizational skills.
• Proactive and able to navigate conflict and help find resolution.
• Problem solver with ability to maintain a keen attention to detail and manage multiple initiatives.
• Strong familiarity with Scrum - Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Advanced Certified Scrum Master (ACSM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) preferred.
• Experience in project management with software development lifecycle. Strong knowledge of product management for digital solutions highly preferred.