Scrum Master, Sr. jobs in Wilmington, DE

Company Details

Berkley Technology Services (BTS) is the dynamic technology solution for W. R. Berkley Corporation, a Fortune 500 Commercial Lines Insurance Company. With key locations in Urbandale, IA and Wilmington, DE, BTS provides innovative and customer-focused IT solutions to the majority of WRBC’s 60 operating units across the globe. BTS’s wide reach ensures that ideas and opinions are considered at every level of the organization to guarantee we find the best solutions possible.  

Driven by a commitment to collaboration, BTS acts as consultants to our customers and Operating Units by providing comprehensive solutions that not only address the challenge at hand, but proactively plan for the “What’s Next” in our industry and beyond.  

With a culture centered on innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, BTS stands as a community of technology leaders with eyes toward the future -- leaders who truly care about growing not only their team members, but themselves, and take pride in their employees who shine. BTS offers endless ways to get involved and have the chance to grow your career into a wide range of roles you'd never known existed.

Come join us as we push forward into the future of industry leading technological solutions.  

The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. 

Responsibilities

Berkley Information Security is looking for a very motivated and organized scrum master to help guide a highly technical team in building and maintaining information security products, tools and security as code. They will be intimately involved in development of the team as a whole and will participate in planning and execution of critical strategic goals.

• Builds and develops a high-performance team
• Promotes self-help / self-organization within the teams
• Schedules, facilitates and coaches Agile routines and ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and PI Planning)
• Helps establish and support consistent reporting practices across the teams & foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Works with Management to establish and maintain technical Roadmaps
• Helps protect the development team from external requests during the Sprint work
• Helps to remove or facilitate removal of impediments the team cannot resolve on their own
• Works closely with other Scrum Masters and project managers to exchange best practices and help to continually improve the process
• Facilitates the creation and adoption of working agreements and definitions of ready / definition of done, including use of appropriate tools, standards and best practices
• Facilitates and enables an environment of collaboration, innovation and creativity
• Challenges and enables the team to continuously improve through intentional Lean and data driven inspect and adapt cycles
• Facilitates team and cross-team impediment removal for the team

Qualifications

• 2 year of experience as a Scrum Master or 2 years project management
• Proficient in JIRA and Confluence
• Have experience in mentoring and coaching more than 1 team at a time
• Coach and mentor team members on agile standards and best practices, e., Lean, Kanban, Scrum, DevOps, SAFe
• Coaches the Team to achieve Sprint Goals & Sprint timelines
• Drives maturity curve of agile adoption, partially based on leadership specific guidance