Blue Shield of California

Scrum Master, Senior

Blue Shield of California  •  Oakland, CA (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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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.

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.

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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Blue Shield of California

About Blue Shield of California

Blue Shield of California strives to create a healthcare system worthy of its family and friends that is sustainably affordable. The health plan is a tax paying, nonprofit, independent member of the Blue Shield Association with nearly 6 million members, over 7,500 employees and more than $25 billion in annual revenue.

Founded in 1939 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Oakland, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid and Medicare healthcare service plans in California. The company has contributed more than $60 million to Blue Shield of California Foundation in the last three years to have an impact on California communities.

For more news about Blue Shield of California, please visit news.blueshieldca.com.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Oakland, California
Year Founded
1939
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