Job description

Impact Consulting Solutions is an Information Technology consulting and full time Placement Company. Our clients range from small local businesses to Fortune 500 Corporations.

Exciting opportunities currently exist for Information Systems professionals. If you are looking for career advancement, new technologies, and the money you deserve, we are the firm for you. We take pride in our ability to match the individual with the right job. Our promise is to provide you with the best financial and career opportunities available.

Our client located in the Pittsburgh, PA area is looking to hire for a Scrum Master with the following skills:

Job Summary: Candidate to lead scrum teams for software development team.

Responsibilities will also include: Interaction with customers and technical staff, process improvement, quality assurance, problem resolution, and project-lead activities.

Required Skills: Healthcare background, strong interpersonal and communication skills, expert level of business experience and knowledge of project methodology and the application development life-cycle

Our client is a high growth, entrepreneurial organization with a mission to support our health system partners in providing population management and health plan management solutions and in doing so enabling health systems to deliver health outcomes that far exceed the existing market standard. As an independently governed and managed organization with substantial growth capital in place, our client also has strategic partnerships with leaders in the provider market. Through these relationships our client enjoys the benefit of substantial contributed technology assets, intellectual property and human capital to support the company’s mission. Our client’s provision of population management and health plan management capabilities – including technology, analytics and process outsourcing – allows health systems to holistically manage member health and wellness for a variety of populations, including for their own employees, patients enrolled in the Medicare Accountable Care program, Medicare Advantage enrollees, managed Medicaid enrollees and commercial plan members.

Responsibilities

• Manage project(s) utilizing standard project management tools and techniques
• Serve as Scrum Master for multiple projects and coach teams in following scrum practices
• Establish and utilize a comprehensive project plan to monitor and report project deliverables
• Coordinate in resolving issues, addressing risks; escalate concerns, and facilitate decision-making
• Develop and implement key metrics to measure/report the progress and value of the project
• Conduct/Facilitate scrum ceremonies such as Daily Standup, Grooming, Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospectives
• Nurture an environment where project issues can be raised without any fear of blame, or being judged
• Work with management to achieve efficiencies across multiple projects and to implement lessons learned
• Work with intra/inter-departmental Project Managers and Scrum Masters to facilitate dependencies
• Provide concise project status report in a different form with appropriate details considering the audience (project team, stakeholders and executives) in a regular or as requested basis
• Create and maintain ‘as is’ or ‘to be’ workflow and other system documentation for ongoing project
• Proactively identify trends in project implementation and recommend process improvement
• Assess the Agile maturity and coach team to go to the higher levels of maturity, at a sustainable pace
• Other responsibilities as assigned by department management

Required Qualification:

• IT Project Management experience (5+ years)
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development methodology (3+ years)
• Hands-on Scrum Master experience (2+ years)
• Experience working with tools VSTS, ALM, Jira, Version One or similar
• Strong ability to partner with cross-functional teams to deliver project goals
• Diplomatic, flexible, and ‘easy to work with’ personality
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
• Ability to perform planning for multiple initiatives/projects, managing all tasks required to provide services to meet business needs within the timeline and the budget
• Ability to effectively manage project scope, and communicate with partners in IT, business, and vendors
• Good computer skills, including experience in tools like MS Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio, and others
• Hands-on experience with any agile collaboration tool(s)

Preferred Qualification:

• PPM Certification
• PSM/CSM Certification
• Prior Healthcare domain experience

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $42.75 - $79.12 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Remote

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