Scrum Master

Description

Position at WebMD

About the Company:

Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., Internet Brands® is a fully integrated online media and software services organization focused on four high-value vertical categories: Health, Automotive, Legal, and Home/Travel. The company's award-winning consumer websites lead their categories and serve more than 250 million monthly visitors, while a full range of web presence offerings has established deep, long-term relationships with SMB and enterprise clients. Internet Brands' powerful, proprietary operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel the company's continued growth. Internet Brands is a portfolio company of KKR and Temasek.

WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands Company, is the leading provider of health information services, serving patients, physicians, health care professionals, employers, and health plans through our public and private online portals, mobile platforms, and health-focused publications. The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD Health, Medscape, Jobson Healthcare Information, prIME Oncology, MediQuality, Frontline, QxMD, Vitals Consumer Services, MedicineNet,

eMedicineHealth, RxList, OnHealth, Medscape Education, and other owned WebMD sites. WebMD®, Medscape®, CME Circle®, Medpulse®, eMedicine®, MedicineNet®, theheart.org®, and RxList® are among the trademarks of WebMD Health Corp. or its subsidiaries.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

For Company details, visit our website: www.webmd.com / www.internetbrands.com

Overview

Within the Engineering organization, the Scrum Master is responsible for managing product development scrum teams and related software. Daily hands-on management of technology activities utilizing Agile and Scrum based software development practices is required with additional responsibilities to include non-technical tasks such as user training, business process reengineering and organizational change. This role requires a wide range of leadership competencies, technical (PM) experience and communications skills. The position operates in a matrix environment, developing multi-talented, cross-functional teams and guiding them through processes that most effectively deliver business solutions.

Education: Bachelor’s degree or relevant equivalent work experience

Experience: Minimum 2 years

Work Timing:6:30 PM to 3:30 AM

Position Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum developing software applications, playing the role of scrum master of more than one team effectively
• Minimum 2 years of experience working in a technology organization or healthcare organization
• Experience with agile tools (Jira, YouTrack)
• Certified Scrum Master would be a plus
• Bachelor’s degree or relevant equivalent work experience

Role & Responsibilities:

• Leverage significant experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies to lead project teams on a daily basis to the successful delivery of software development related projects
• Lead Scrum Teams through the identification and management of risk and support issue resolution
• Able to quickly solve complex problems in a challenging, dynamic environment with minimal direction
• Self-starter with ability to prioritize and facilitate delivery of multiple initiatives/scrum teams
• Responsible for managing team dynamics, morale and motivation while building culture where all members and points of view are respected
• Accountable for delivering ‘quality’ solutions that provide desired business benefits and/or solve business problems - ‘on-time’ & within budget
• Create and manage real-time visibility of progress for business and technical senior management, product teams and stakeholders
• Effectively communicates complex and/or difficult information to both technical and non-technical audiences

Daily Responsibilities:

• Forecast sprint iterations with the Product Owners
• Coach individuals in Agile processes and tools
• Help teams to clarify goals and activities to be on-track
• Keep the teams focused - shield the team from outside distractions and interferences
• Ensure the correct use of scrum process
• Monitor and eliminate team conflicts
• Conduct daily stand-up, sprint reviews and retrospective