Senior Transformation & Change Scrum Master
As AXA XL continues its company-wide transformation towards agile ways of working, the Senior Transformation & Change Scrum Master is one of the centerpieces for a successful adoption of agile values, principles and practices across the entire organization.
DISCOVERyour opportunity
What will your essential responsibilities include?
1. Be the Servant Leader for teams and support them in defining Roadmaps aligned with business strategy as well as delivering outcomes with maximum efficiency and value creation
2. Interact closely with key stakeholders to ensure vision and strategy serve as the teams’ North Star, and support Product Owners / Business Owners in creating, refreshing and grooming the backlog
3. Facilitate key agile ceremonies and ensure their efficiency: stand-up, sprint planning, sprint demo, retrospective
4. Provide guidance, teach and coach teams on the appropriate use of agile practices / tools for their day-to-day activities (deliverable production, workload estimation, resource planning, backlog management, problem solving)
5. Remove impediments to ensure self-organized teams can focus on high-value increments
6. Serve as a mediator and facilitator to identify, solve and/or escalate (when necessary) conflicts and interpersonal issues within teams as well as cross-organization
7. Embody agile culture and mindset as a passionate ‘Change Agent’: collaboration, collective sense of responsibility, empowerment, simplicity, customer-focus, iterative and incremental delivery, continuous improvement
8. Actively engage with the agile practice chapter to contribute, keep updated and deploy AXA XL’s best practices
In this role, you will report to the Head of Transformation and Change.
SHARE your talent
We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
9. Well established experience, with significant scrum master experience among cross-functional teams, as well as experience of IT Development/Program Management/other relevant business experience
10. Detailed understanding and practice of agile methodology and mindset (values and principles)
11. Scrum certification preferred, Agile at scale if possible
12. Effective organizational and time management skills
13. Excellent interpersonal skills, including communication, presentation and ability to negotiate
14. Analytical skills to address complex issues and ability to think and communicate at different levels of detail and across different levels of the organization
15. Previous experience in consulting will be of advantage
FIND your future
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.
How? By combining a effective and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.
With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
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