Scrum Master - Military veterans preferred

About Avalon Healthcare Solutions:

Avalon Healthcare Solutions is the world's first and only Lab Insights company, bringing together our proven Lab Benefit Management solutions, lab science expertise, digitized lab values, and proprietary analytics to help healthcare insurers proactively inform appropriate care, reduce costs, and improve clinical outcomes. Working with health plans nationwide, the company covers over 44+ million lives and delivers 10-20% proven outpatient lab benefit savings. Avalon is pioneering a new era of value-driven care with its Lab Insights Program that captures, digitizes, and analyzes lab results in real-time to provide actionable insights for earlier disease detection, ensuring appropriate treatment protocols and driving down overall costs. 

Avalon is a portfolio company of Francisco Partners, a global private equity firm that specializes in investments in technology and technology-enabled service companies. Avalon is a high growth company where every associate has an opportunity to make a difference. 

Avalon has years of expertise in managing lab benefits and now is leveraging digitized lab results to drive quality clinical outcomes and proven savings.  When you look at how we bring this to life, we offer Lab Insights solutions that work together to arm you with critical lab-driven insights to accelerate your value-driven care success.  This is the first-of-its-kind suite of solutions to help you achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per-member cost of healthcare.

You will be part of a team that shapes a new market and business. Most importantly, you will help Avalon to achieve its mission and improve clinical outcomes and health care affordability for the people we serve.

For more information about Avalon, please visit www.avalonhcs.com.

About the Scrum Master:

The Scrum Master plays a key role within the Agile team, supporting Avalon’s scrum and kanban teams in meeting their delivery goals. This position is responsible for fostering a culture of self-organization and continuous improvement by coaching teams on Agile practices and processes.  Possessing a deep understanding of Agile methodologies, the Scrum Master educates team members and removes impediments to progress. The Scrum Master also ensures focus remains aligned with PI objectives and Sprint goals.

This position is eligible for remote work, but quarterly travel will be required to Avalon's corporate office located in Tampa, Florida.  

Scrum Master – Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Coordinating and managing agile ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Stand Ups, Refinement, Iteration Review, and Retrospective.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments through coordination and creative thinking.
• Coordinating with Product and Development Managers to facilitate PI planning and ensure that PI objectives are attained.
• Responsible for improving flow. 
• Analyzing iteration data to determine potential risks of meeting iteration goals.
• Assisting with internal communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Contributing to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
• Coordinating with other scrum masters to develop best practices and standards for agile teams at Avalon

Scrum Master – Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree 
• Four years of experience in a related role
• Experience in performing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team
• Excellent communication, facilitation and coaching skills
• Good data analytical skills 
• Scrum Master Certification

Policy and Publication Specialist – Preferred Qualifications:

• SAFe Agile Scrum Master certification
• Experience working during an organization Agile transformation
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Scaled Agile, etc.
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques including User Stories, Continuous Integration, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.

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