Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Scrum Master

Barnes-Jewish Hospital$75K — $95K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • 2-5 years of experience in Agile environments
  • Agile Certified, including Certified Scrum Master/Professional Scrum Master certifications
  • Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL
  • Experience working across cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate agile ceremonies such as sprint planning and retrospectives
  • Manage and minimize project risks and impediments
  • Collaborate with product owners to maintain and prioritize the backlog
  • Track and communicate team metrics, including velocity
  • Act as a liaison between product and technology teams

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance effective first day of the month after hire
  • Paid disability insurance by BJC
  • 4% automatic retirement contribution from BJC
  • 401(k) plan with BJC match
  • Tuition assistance available from day one
  • Access to BJC Institute for Learning and Development
  • Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care
  • Paid Time Off that combines vacation, sick days, and holidays
  • Adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Additional Information About the Role

BJC is hiring for a Scrum Master/Business Analyst.

The Scrum Master / Data Business Analyst will serve as an active team member supporting an Agile analytics development team. As Scrum Master, the role facilitates core agile ceremonies-including daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog refinement-while removing impediments and coaching the team on agile best practices. As a Data Business Analyst, the role supports product owners and the development team through activities such as story mapping, data discovery, data workflows, data profiling, and testing to ensure solutions are clearly defined, validated, and ready for use. The ideal candidate brings a strong Agile, servant-leader mindset along with solid analytical and SQL skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

The Scrum Master works closely with the product owner in setting the product vision and leading the discussions for minimum viable product (MVP), sprint assignments and achieving business outcomes. This role ensures timely delivery of committed work in each sprint, manages sprint velocity-related metrics, act as a translator & conduit between Product and Technology teams to ensure proper translation of user stories into granular tasks ready for development, run key agile ceremonies, e.g., daily huddles, backlog grooming, sprint planning and sprint retros. This role plays a lead role in fulfilling the vision, driving the implementation of products and setting standards for our teams to follow.

Responsibilities
  • Facilitate and lead project and feature development through cross functional teams. Product artifacts such as project plans, dashboards/status reports, deployment plans. Facilitate sprint ceremonies, release and sprint planning sessions. Sprint review (demo) and sprint retrospective. Participates in Scrum of Scrums to highlight dependencies and cross functional implications.
  • Ensure identified risks and issues are actioned and resolved by the accountable team, minimize or eliminate impediments to progress or schedule. Escalate when necessary.
  • Partner closely with product owners, developers, testing teams, other technology staff as well as the Agile Coach. Ensure the team follows agile methods and practices. Track and communicate various metrics per team including velocity and sprint/release progress. Communicate and articulate clearly to all levels of the organization. Understand and drive the team to achieve the business outcomes that are identified and measured.
  • Collaborate with the product owner to maintain the backlog, prioritization and ensure the minimum viable product (MVP).

  • Minimum Requirements

    Education
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • - Related field of study
    Experience
  • 2-5 years

  • Licenses & Certifications
  • AGILE CERTIFIED
  • Prof Scrum Mast/Cert Scrum Mst

  • Preferred Requirements

    Education
  • Master's Degree
  • - Related field of study
    Experience
  • 5-10 years

  • Supervisor Experience
  • < 2 years

  • Benefits and Legal Statement

    BJC Total Rewards

    At BJC we're committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.
    • Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
    • Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
    • Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
    • 401(k) plan with BJC match
    • Tuition Assistance available on first day
    • BJC Institute for Learning and Development
    • Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
    • Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
    • Adoption assistance

    To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary

    *Not all benefits apply to all jobs

    The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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