Blue Shield Of California

Scrum Master, Senior

Blue Shield Of California$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience plus 5 years in Scrum Master or Agile leadership roles.
  • Experience with Agile software development teams.
  • Strong familiarity with Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Agile practices.
  • Proven experience facilitating Agile events and coaching teams.
  • Excellent communication and conflict resolution skills.
  • Proficient with Agile tools like Jira or similar platforms.
  • Agile certifications such as CSM, PSM I/II, ICAgile, or SAFe preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as Scrum Master and Agile Coach for one or more Agile teams.
  • Facilitate key Agile ceremonies including planning, refinement, and retrospectives.
  • Coach teams on Agile, Lean, Scrum, and Kanban principles.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure healthy backlog management.
  • Identify and eliminate impediments affecting delivery and productivity.
  • Monitor and enhance metrics like cycle time and throughput.
  • Promote continuous improvement and quality practices within teams.

Benefits

  • Flexible workplace model with a balance of in-office and remote work.
  • Support for medical conditions with accommodations in the work environment.
  • Opportunities for personal, professional, and financial growth.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your Role

As a Scrum Master at Stellarus, you'll play a critical role in accelerating the delivery of innovative healthcare solutions by empowering Agile teams to do their best work. Serving as a coach, facilitator, and servant leader, you'll help teams embrace Lean-Agile practices, remove obstacles, drive continuous improvement, and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation. By enabling high-performing teams to deliver value faster and more effectively, you'll directly contribute to Stellarus' mission of transforming the healthcare experience through technology and data-driven solutions.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:
  • Serve as Scrum Master and Agile Coach for one or more Agile teams.
  • Facilitate planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and other team delivery activities.
  • Coach teams on Agile, Lean, Scrum, and Kanban principles and practices.
  • Partner with Product Owners to maintain backlog health, prioritization, and planning readiness.
  • Identify and remove team-level impediments that impact delivery and productivity.
  • Monitor and improve flow metrics such as cycle time, throughput, and work in progress.
  • Promote engineering excellence, quality practices, automation, and continuous improvement.
  • Foster collaboration across Product, Engineering, QA, and other stakeholder groups.
  • Provide transparency into team progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.
  • Support Agile maturity through data-driven coaching, feedback, and continuous learning.


Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience
  • Requires bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, plus 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Project Manager, or related delivery leadership role
  • Experience supporting Agile software development teams.
  • Working knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Agile delivery practices.
  • Experience facilitating Agile events and coaching delivery teams.
  • Strong communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience using Agile delivery tools such as Jira or similar platforms.
  • Valid Certifications: CSM, PSM I/II, ICAgile, SAFe, or equivalent Agile certifications strongly preferred.

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Our Workplace Model:

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:
  • For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
  • Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
  • For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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About Blue Shield Of California

Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan provider that has been providing Californians with access to high-quality healthcare for over 80 years. The company offers a range of health insurance products and services to individuals, families, and employers. Blue Shield of California is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its members and the communities it serves. The company is also committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
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Size
7,000 employees
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Founded
1981

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