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SUMMARY
At Northwestern Mutual, we're changing the way people think about financial planning. We're redefining and reinventing the industry and changing people's financial lives with better experiences and better technology. We believe in building inclusive, and diverse workplaces, where every voice is heard. Come help us build for the future!
Our Core Data & Analytics team is growing and looking for an experienced Scrum Master to:

• Help build a culture of continuous improvement, foster intellectual curiosity and a growth mindset; encourage empathy, understanding, and a steadfast pursuit of excellence.
• Be a key contributor to our development team's success by driving principles of empiricism and transparency throughout the development process. The role demands a passion for agile practices, an aim to build partnerships with engineers and Product Owners, and a deep set of soft skills including facilitation, influencing, and negotiation.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Embody servant leadership and partner with the engineering team and the Product Owner (PO) to drive the delivery of working software and technology platforms.
• Ensure transparency between all team members and stakeholders on the state of the backlog, team performance, delivery, and work plans
• Find opportunities for experimentation and growth for continuous improvement, both personally and as a member of a team.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure backlog is prioritized in a fashion that minimizes delays and handles dependencies as well as product release plans
• Actively contributing and guiding to the refinement of work in the backlog by analyzing requirements and acceptance criteria
• Demonstrating standard methodologies (concepts like 'Definition of Ready' and 'Definition of Done')
• Identify and help resolve risks and impediments
• Work to recognize and facilitate resolution of dependencies between engineering teams, both internal and external
• Crafting and maintaining all Product Lifecycle documents and project critical metrics on a weekly basis
• Supervise results and ensure visibility of status and artifacts
• Providing information to Management on patterns and trends in the industry, competitors, etc.

IDEAL CANDIDATE WOULD BRING THE FOLLOWING:
Minimum of 3-5 years working with agile software development teams.
Proven experience working with agile teams in software development and awareness/understanding of concepts including:

• DevOps concepts and approach (CI/CD, automation etc.)
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), microservices etc.
• Experience with JIRA and JIRA Align or similar work management tools.
• Experience working in scaled agile environments demonstrating one of the scaled frameworks (Nexus, SAFe, LeSS etc.).
• Experience in Financial or insurance industry.
• Passion for operational excellence, problem solving, and ownership in accomplishing goals.

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This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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