Company Description
We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows.
Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.
**Job Description**:
Specialist in the implementation and execution of agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, to support the development of projects in one or several areas of data-driven product development.
Scrum Masters at Infutor helps to guide and support team(s) toward successful outcomes in project delivery, velocity, and quality and will help to maintain a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Organize and drive product development throughout the Sprints, including Sprint Planning, Daily
- Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.
- Assist Product Owners, development, data, and IT teams with backlog grooming and prioritization.
- Review and maintain adherence to company-defined Definitions of Ready and Done.
- Facilitate the teams' abilities to develop in a consistent and creative manner.
- Protect teams from scope creep and maintain sprint goals.
- Remove impediments for teams.
- Perform the role of Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams.
- Keep appropriate stakeholders up-to-date with the latest information on high-priority incidents through timely and regular written and verbal communications.
- Identify and track internal and external dependencies.
- Ensure that appropriate Scrum artifacts are accurate and visible, including progress tracking through charts and views in Targetprocess.
- Measure, track and help teams improve metrics through continuous improvement.
- Maintain a high level of effective communication between onsite and remote teams.
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**Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Familiar with Agile methodologies and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP.
- 3+ years of proven and successful experience as a Scrum Master.
- Project Management Experience.
- CSM (Certified Scrum Master) or similar certification.
- Strong written and oral communication skills (in English and Spanish).
- Experience with Product delivery-focused organizations.
- Experience with managing projects including Data Engineering, Data Science, and Software Delivery.
- Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle.
- Knowledge of Agile and other software development techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, TDD, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.
- Demonstrated excellence in leadership and ability to create collaborative, productive teams.
- SAFe, Scrum at Scale, Scrum of Scrums or other cross-team and cross-organizational methodologies.
- Familiarity with tools like JIRA, Rally, Targetprocess for managing projects.
- Amazon Web Services or other cloud infrastructure knowledge.
- Database and Data Warehousing knowledge.
- Software or API knowledge.
- Experience with fostering growth in agile organizations.
- Ability to manage, communicate and negotiate work based on company goals and project initiatives.
- Ability to manage and disperse the appropriate communications to the appropriate parties.
- Ability to communicate and plan across dependent teams or departments clearly.
Additional Information
Our company of rapidly-growing data, technology and analytics leaders is looking for a to join our team that has recently been recognized as:
- Crain's Best Places to Work Company
- Crain's Best-Paying Company
- BuiltIn Best Places to Work
- Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in the US
- AdWeek Top 20 Fastest Growing Solution Providers
- Martech Breakthrough Award Winner for Best Contact Database Solution
Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) provides predictive analytics and decision-support solutions to customers in the insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services industries.
More than 70 percent of the FORTUNE 100 relies on the company's advanced technologies to manage risks, make better decisions and improve operating efficiency.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the company continues to make the world better, safer and stronger, and fosters an inclusive and diverse culture where all team members feel they belong.
With more than 100 offices in nearly 35 our global team uses AI, machine learning, automation, and other emerging technologies to collect and analyze billions of records.
We provide advanced decision-support to prevent credit, lending, and cyber risks.
In addition, we monitor and advise companies on complex global matters such as climate change, catastrophes, and geopolitical issues.
But why we do our work is what sets us apart.
It stems from a commitment to making the world better, safer and stronger.
It's the reason Verisk is part of the UN Global Compact sustainability initiative.
It's why we made a commitment to balancing 100 percent of our carbon emissions.
It's the aim of our "returnship" program for experi