At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. We are looking for dedicated and motivated individuals who share our vision of transforming healthcare. As a Blue Cross associate, you are joining a culture that is built on values of succeeding together, finding a better way, and doing the right thing. If you are ready to make a difference, join us.
The Impact You Will Have
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support 2–3 Scrum teams within our technology organization. The ideal candidate will bring three years of experience in Agile and Scrum practices, along with the ability to help establish and maintain governance over Scrum‑related tasks, ceremonies, and delivery metrics.
This role partners closely with Product Owners, engineering leaders, and delivery teams to ensure Scrum is executed effectively, consistently, and in alignment with organizational standards while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Additionally, the Scrum Master will help identify and mange impediments, while focusing on Agile best practices. Furthermore, this role will be responsible for helping launch new products or services for their designated product area, assist with large-scale application development, migration to new business applications, outsourcing of business or system capabilities, and infrastructure upgrades. The Scrum Master must ensure that delivery methods occur on an iterative basis leading with agility.
Your Responsibilities
- Uses Agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
- Collaborates with product owners on the product development and business requirements.
- Responsible for helping teams build out their backlog and ensure best practices around acceptance criteria.
- Able to conduct journey mapping session, definition of ready and definition of done.
- Incorporates tasks, issues, risks, and action items within Agile process and team backlog.
- Schedules and facilitates scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
- Identifies team opportunities to work with the team and measure data based improvements.
- Ensure teams follow Agile Life Cycle at a team level or at Scale.
- Ensures the proper use of collaborative processes and removes impediments for the team.
- Ensures initiative processes, deliverables, and financials are tracked.
- Prepares and presents value and Improvement reports to stakeholders.
- Trains, mentors, and supports Agile teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices to develop a continuous improvement mindset.
- Generally, Scrum Master will have accountability of larger cross functional product(s). Number of products, product size, revenue impacts and/or complexity are all considerations in performance.
Required Skills and Experience
- One of the following certifications: Certified scrum master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe or LeSS
- 3+ years of related professional experience. All relevant experience including work, education, transferable skills, and military experience will be considered.
- Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions
- Utilize data to help tell a story
- Able to build highly engaged teams
- Excellent people and portfolio management skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Adaptability and a willingness to learn new skills
- Expertise in relating strategy to tactics
- Expertise in strategic thinking and strong business acumen
- Adept at working effectively with all functions of an organization in a highly matrixed environment
- Experience creating documentation such as business case documentation or business requirements summaries
- Experience with agile planning tools such as Jira and/or Mural
- High school diploma (or equivalency) and legal authorization to work in the U.S.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, business, technical degree or a relevant field
- 3+ years of Agile Team experience or in role experience, preferably in a health care organization
- Exposure to Agile backlog management & planning tools from Atlassian (Jira) Portfolio Management and/or Mural
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, including experience leveraging data to inform decision making and independently solving problems
Anchored in Connection
Our hybrid approach is designed to balance flexibility with meaningful in-person connection and collaboration. We come together in the office two days each week – most teams designate at least one anchor day to ensure team interaction. These in-person moments foster relationships, creativity, and alignment. The rest of the week you are empowered to work remote.
Compensation and Benefits$90,800.00 - $120,300.00 - $149,800.00 AnnualPay is based on several factors which vary based on position, including skills, ability, and knowledge the selected individual is bringing to the specific job.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package which may include:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Life insurance
401k
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)
And more
To discover more about what we have to offer, please review our benefits page.
Equal Employment Opportunity StatementAt Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. Blue Cross of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Employer and maintains an Affirmative Action plan, as required by Minnesota law applicable to state contractors. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on any legally protected characteristic.
Individuals with a disability who need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply, please contact us at: [email protected].
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Skills Required
- 3+ years of related professional experience
- One of the following certifications: Certified scrum master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe or LeSS
- Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and has not been reviewed or approved by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.
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Retirement Support — The program combines a 401(k) match with additional company retirement contributions and a cash balance pension. This multi-pronged design strengthens long-term financial security beyond standard offerings.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits include fully paid parental leave, adoption/surrogacy/foster assistance, and childcare support. These resources provide meaningful support across diverse family needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO that increases with tenure, multiple paid holidays, personal days, and paid volunteer time are paired with flexible scheduling. This breadth supports sustained work-life balance across career stages.
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What We Do
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is a taxable, nonprofit organization with a mission to make a healthy difference in people’s lives. Chartered in 1933 as Minnesota’s first health plan, we’ve promoted wider, more economical and timely availability of health services for the people of Minnesota for 80+ years. Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® of Minnesota is a nonprofit independent licensee of the Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® Association.
