What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scrum Master position at Verisk?
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
Who is Verisk Marketing Solutions?
Verisk Marketing Solutions helps marketers create exceptional experiences for their customers and prospects by targeting the right person, with the right message, at the right time. We do this with the highest standards for data security and respect for the consumer’s privacy, preference, and permission. Our consumer insights and data solutions are designed to help marketers continuously maintain a real-time view of customers and prospects as those consumer’s profiles and behaviors are changing over time. Whether our clients are seeing a consumer for the first time or have a long-standing relationship with her, we help them improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every engagement. We take pride in helping our customers understand and apply our solutions and data to improve their digital marketing strategies in new and creative ways. When our clients win, we win.
Position Overview
As a Scrum Master at Verisk Marketing Solutions, you will function as a leader enabling teams to deliver business value in the software being developed, protecting teams from external interferences, resolving impediments that teams encounter and coaching teams in better ways of achieving software agility.
About the Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
Organize and drive product development throughout the Sprints, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Refinements, and Sprint Retrospectives.
Assist Product Owners, Development, Data, and IT teams with backlog refinement 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.
Qualifications
2 – 3 years of experience in Scrum Master role on Scrum and Kanban teams.
Certified Scrum Master or similar certification.
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.
Familiarity with tools like JIRA, Rally, Targetprocess for managing projects.
Amazon Web Services or other cloud infrastructure knowledge.
Experience with fostering growth in agile organizations.
Ability to communicate, negotiate and plan work across dependent teams or departments clearly.
Experience building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, judgment, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving.
Accepts and acts on constructive criticism while being a careful listener that uses that ability to connect closely with team members.
Honesty / Integrity – Does not cut corners ethically. Earns trust and maintains confidence. Does what is right, not just what is politically expedient. Speaks plainly and truthfully.
Ability to work independently, make informed decisions, and ask for guidance where needed.
Ability to understand both business and technical needs to facilitate the delivery of high-quality products.
Additional Information
In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.
For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.
Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.
We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.
Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries
Verisk Businesses
Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision
Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences
Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient
Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.
Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance
Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement
Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.
Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger
At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work® Certification for the 7th consecutive year. We’ve been recognized by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce. Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work.
Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.
All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.
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