Scrum Master

Primary Details

Time Type:
Full time

Worker Type:
Employee

Responsible for assisting a self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve their delivery goals through teaching and coaching team practices, implementing and supporting Agile principles and practices, facilitating key ceremonies and workshops, identifying, and eliminating impediments, and facilitating effective flow of value.

Also work with the extended Scrum Master community, including Release Train Engineers and Solution Architects, to increase the effectiveness of Agile across the enterprise.

The opportunity

• We are on a journey of in new ways of working resulting in 2 newly created roles of Scrum Masters
• With an engaged Senior Leadership team, so you will be in the position to make a real difference to how we do things.
• Work with our dedicated, inhouse delivery team, nurturing an agile mindset, fostering resilience, and facilitating a culture of transformation and improvement.
• Passionate and collaborative colleagues and stakeholders, in cross functional agile working teams
• Global business but down to earth and inclusive team.
• Permanent, fulltime role, based in Auckland.
• Hybrid working and happy to talk flexible.

Your new role

Reporting to our Release Train Engineer/Agile Coach, you will work closely with our highly experienced delivery team and collaborate with senior stakeholders across the business to support our delivery goals through coaching team practices, implementing and supporting Agile principles and practices.

You will be responsible for:

• Facilitating workshops and presentations, engaging senior stakeholders.
• Fostering highperforming teams through coaching and conflict resolution.
• Drive team progress towards goals, challenging old norms for improved performance.
• Support Agile adoption and implementation aligned with Lean Agile principles.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts, enabling teams to innovate and problemsolve effectively.
• Facilitate key events and ceremonies including the daily stand up, iteration planning, iteration review, iteration retrospective and Scrum of Scrums
• Eliminate impediments by supporting the team in addressing and eliminating issues
• Shield the team from external interference and distractions to enable effective flow of value.

More information and the full job profile can be shared with you during the interview process.

About you

You are an experienced Scrum Master, who is excited about the opportunity to be involved in the early stages of our new ways of working.

With a passion for people, business improvement and taking the business on a journey you will have:

• Previous experience as a Scrum Master within a matrix structured business environment
• Been a part of transformations at an enterprise level.
• Facilitated, coordinated, and planned program work, activities, workshops and presentations on delivery.
• Preferably be certified in SaFe.

About QBE

We can never really predict what's around the corner, but at QBE we're asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We're an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success.

We're proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

With more than more than 11,000 people working across 27 countries, we're big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too?

Your career at QBE - let's make it happen

Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances.

As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- 'Hybrid Working' - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance

• Our 'Thriving at our Best' wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 18 weeks' genderequal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
• Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

Rewards & Recognition
We value our employee's experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbei

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