Scrum Master

Status: 12-24 Months (Contract)

Job Title: Scrum Master

Location: Hybrid in Salem, OR

Salary: $60-$70/hr

About the company:

We are a not-for-profit workers’ compensation insurance company and the leading workers’ compensation insurance carrier in Oregon. Since 1914, we’ve been taking care of injured workers and helping people get back to work. Together with our local community, we've worked to advance workplace safety in Oregon, reducing the total number of injuries and keeping premium costs low. As a result, Oregon's workers’ comp system is now one of the most well-regarded in the U.S., with a much lower-than-average workplace injury rate and the sixth lowest premiums in the nation.

We're proud to be the workers' comp provider of choice for the majority of Oregon employers, from thousands of small businesses to some of the state’s economic leaders. Protecting over half a million local workers each day, We are committed to helping Oregon work better, smarter, and safer—today and for years to come. We also practice what we preach, ranking #1 in Portland Business Journal’s Healthiest Employers of Oregon.

Scrum Master:

Our client is seeking a Scrum Master to guide agile software development teams in delivering high-quality solutions while fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and predictable delivery. This individual will serve as a trusted coach and facilitator, helping teams strengthen agile practices, remove obstacles, and drive effective communication across cross-functional stakeholders in a dynamic technology environment.

This role is a hybrid model in Salem, Oregon.

Scrum Master Responsibilities:

• Assist in leading a cross-functional development teams in leveraging agile methodology and scrum practices, promoting collaboration each sprint work cycle, maximizing performance and effectiveness.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies such as morning standups, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, and other ceremonies as needed.
• Partner with Product Owner, Program Manager, Solutions Architect or Solution Delivery Manager to escalate challenges in the implementation of agile practices to expedite process correction, creating strategies that resonate with the Program and company culture.
• Act as a coach, supporting the product manager and development teams, providing education where needed aligned with agile best practice, supporting product planning and coordination of new workflows, continually engaged, and focused on improving team agile/scrum maturity.
• Analyze the impact of new solutions on existing workflows and provide recommendations on potential operational and team process changes.
• Complete and distribute sprint work cycle and monthly status reports to the development team, product manager, program manager, and sponsors as necessary.
• Prepare and monitor capacity/velocity models, helping the development team in sprint work cycle planning, partnering with the product manager to maintain software/feature milestone delivery forecasts.
• Tracks and monitors dependencies and potential upcoming blockers through cross-team communication at a Scrum of Scrums. Coordinates efforts to address and follow up to resolution.
• Collaborate with Solution Delivery Manager, Product Manager, and Project Manager to continually track the progress of development team members working across IT team boundaries, providing support working through dependencies by fostering communication, collaboration, and coordination.
• Help the development team perform seamlessly in aligning with the organization's IT governance structure and standards.
• In coordination with the Product Owner, monitor the development and execution of test plans and testing practices adopted by teams to ensure compliance with program testing strategy and quickly identify and address areas of risk.
• Explore diverse perspectives and consistently behave sensitively toward differences in cultural norms, expectations, and ways of communicating. Work effectively with others who have different perspectives, backgrounds, and/or work styles.

Scrum Master Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of proven experience working with software development teams running agile projects using scrum techniques with familiarity of SAFe or other scaling frameworks.
• Proven ability to influence and navigate ongoing agile transformation while fostering continuous improvement is paramount.
• Experience working within the insurance industry is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in business management, information technology, or a related field is preferred.
• Certified Scrum Master through scrum.org, or equivalent.