Agile Process Lead

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd, organizačná zložka

Place of work
Bratislava I, Bratislava-Old Town
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
2500€ plus other pay elements based on your experience

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Key tasks:
- Facilitating the delivery of the development work done and by facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution using Agile as a framework i.e. in particular without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment. Guiding the relevant teams on how to use Agile and/or Scrum practices and values.
- Guiding the teams on how to get the most out of self-organisation and improving transparency.
- Assessing the Agile [or Scrum] Maturity of the teams and organisation and coaching the teams to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for them and the organisation.
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, negative consequences, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
- Being the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management.
- Coordinating across the application and platform team as appropriate, including coordinating the release cycles across the application teams.
- Co-ordination across 3 scrum teams and in 2 locations (Zurich and Bratislava).

Additional Job Functions: 
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner on Agile/Scrum practices, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Develop relationship with the Product Owners and an understanding of their business and the uses to which the business process RMP applications are put.
- Mediating the general conflict of goals between development team (high technical quality) and product owner (more features).
- Continual self-development regarding everything Agile.
- Challenge team with Agile management innovations.  

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Master's degree)

Personality requirements and skills

- Experience acting as the Scrum Master role for at least one year (ideally two) for a software development team which was diligently applying Agile/Scrum/Kanban principles, practices, and theory.
- Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
- Broader exposure and experience with other Agile techniques, for example XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing etc.
- Technical and other skills
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills,
- Strong facilitation and mediation skills, Situationally Aware
– Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management,
- Enthusiastic with high-energy levels,

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Brief description of the company

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With about 55,000 employees, it provides a wide range of property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in more than 215 countries and territories. Zurich’s customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, as well as multinational corporations. Zurich Bratislava is a Slovakia-based Competence Center for highly specialized services in the areas of Life and non-life actuarial, risk management, business intelligence, IT application development and service management as well as insurance network. An international workforce of close to 300 colleagues is supporting Zurich’s Corporate Center and Business Units around the globe.

Number of employees

250-499 employees
ID: 3551981  Megjelentetés dátuma: 3.12.2018  Az állásajánlat egy külső forrásból származik vagy egy másik portálról vettük át. A (bruttó) bér alapösszetevője és egyéb juttatások: 2500€ plus other pay elements based on your experience