Scrum Master
ABOUT US
At HUB International , we are a team of entrepreneurs. We believe in protecting and supporting the aspirations of individuals, families, and businesses. We help our clients evaluate their risks and develop solutions tailored to their needs. We believe in empowering our employees to learn, grow, and make a difference. Our structure enables our teams to maintain their own unique, regional culture while leveraging support and resources from our corporate centers of excellence.
HUB is the 5th largest global insurance and employee benefits broker, providing a boundaryless array of business insurance, employee benefits, risk services, personal insurance, retirement, and private wealth management products and services. With over $5 billion in revenue and more than 17,000 employees in 600 offices throughout North America, HUB has grown substantially, in part due to our industry leading success in mergers and acquisitions.
Seeking a FinTech role within one of the top five largest insurance brokers? This pivotal role is at the forefront of transformational initiatives delivering a fresh perspective on insurance. Join our enthusiastic, entrepreneurial, and collaborative team, relentlessly focused on hitting goals, while delivering creative product offerings and technology solutions to our customers and partners.
Job Overview - Scrum Master
HUB International is rapidly expanding our digital product offerings and technology solutions and is seeking a motivated Scrum Master to support our strategic goals. In this role, you will work with multiple teams to facilitate the planning and successful delivery of client projects through the full project development lifecycle. As a Scrum Master, you will empower our teams as a servant leader, monitor team performance, and remove any impediments that block sprint goals. You will apply Agile values and principles, and the Scrum or Kanban framework to optimize value delivered, coach and support our teammates, and promote self-organization and continuous improvement for high-performing teams.
Our ideal candidate is a collaborative problem solver with a passion for servant leadership and proven experience in practicing Agile principles to guide teams in producing high-quality work.
In this role, you'll get to:
• Support multiple product development teams focusing on digital technology-based solutions.
• Collaborate with and support the Product Owner, Designers, and Developers to ensure alignment on the product roadmap and sprint goals, deliver incremental value each sprint, improve squad processes, and develop sprint reports.
• Communicate and mitigate impediments, risks, concerns, and cross-team dependencies to the appropriate leader to maintain team velocity.
• Collaborate with the other Scrum Masters to champion Agile practices and values within and across teams, coach others on these practices, and align and guide the teams to self-organize to maximize the value delivered.
• Facilitate scrum rituals, meetings, tool configuration, and any necessary decision-making processes for the team (including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews/retrospectives, etc.).
• Monitor, analyze, and present team performance reporting and analytics including burndown/burn-up charts, sprint velocity, capacity planning, sprint status, defect tracking, etc.
• Facilitate backlog refinement meetings using relative effort estimation techniques and ensure clear and concise product backlog items. Support the Product Owner to prioritize the Product Backlog to maximize value.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability within the team.
• Lead by example, demonstrating initiative, servant leadership, proactive communications, consensus building, adaptability, and teamwork.
We want someone who has:
• 4+ years of relevant work experience in Agile software development environments.
• Minimum 2 years of experience working as a Scrum Master in Agile software development environments.
• Proficiency and propensity for servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, team empowerment, and transparency,
• Ability to assess the Agile team's performance based on results and delivery patterns and drive continuous improvement through the application of the appropriate Agile techniques,
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate proficiently (both verbally and in writing) with internal and external teams, including virtual team members across multiple time zones,
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and experience working with both business and technology teams,
• Familiar with Jira, Confluence, Slack, Miro, SharePoint, and Microsoft Office tools,
• Has provided agile training to teams, clients, or stakeholders,
• Experience working in the Insurance industry is preferred,
• Consulting experience is a major plus,
• CSM, ACP-PMI, or other scrum certification,
• Desire to learn.
Education and Qualifications:
• Required Experience: 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Required Education: Bachelor's Degree (4-year degree) or equivalent work experience
• Required Travel: Up to 10%
• Full-Time
• Exempt
Although hybrid Chicago is preferred, this role may consider remote candidates.
JOIN OUR TEAM
Do you believe in the power of innovation, collaboration, and transformation? Do you thrive in a supportive and client focused work environment? Are you looking for an opportunity to help build and drive change in a rapidly growing and evolving organization? When you join HUB International , you will be part of a community of learners and doers focused on our Core Values: entrepreneurship, teamwork, integrity, accountability, and service.
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Required Experience: 2-5 years of relevant experience
Required Travel: Negligible
Required Education: Bachelor's degree (4-year degree)
HUB International Limited is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race/ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran's status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations. The EEO is the Law poster and its supplement is available here at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm .
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