About Evernorth:
Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI), creates pharmacy, care, and benefits solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention, and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people.
Position Overview:
This role provides counsel and advice to management on significant Infrastructure matters, often requiring coordination between organizations. Serves as a project manager/Scrum master. This role works with teams of technical professionals to help timely delivery of new system capabilities, implement enhancements and support existing systems.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitates collaboration amongst cross-functional teams.
- Challenge and negotiate project scope and ensure robust documentation of specifications which guides the efficient application development and engineering efforts to ensure successful implementation and maximize the speed to deliver the business value achieved with the initiatives.
- Product Focus - Partner with the Product Owner and Solution Architect to understand key business and technology objectives and strategy of the products to help team drive towards executing these goals. Lead the coordination of release planning with the Product Owner and other key IT and Business stakeholders.
- Servant leaders
- Facilitating day-to-day team meetings
- Assessing their team's capacity
- Team-layer metrics and reporting/project plans when needed.
- Identify dependencies, risks, and bottlenecks.
- Escalate issues when needed.
- Facilitate pre-PI planning sessions.]
- Participate in the ART Sync/PMPO Sync
- Assist engineers in creating user stories.
- Protect the team from outside noise and respect the workflow process.
- Measure and optimize flow by visualizing work on JIRA board.
- Coach engineers on Agile process.
Qualifications
Required Skills:
- 11-13 Years of experience is required
- Experience working with Infrastructure teams.
- Proven organizational skills working with cross-functional team in helping develop a detailed work plan to ensure product success.
- Past work experience as a Scrum Master/Project Manager
- Knowledge and/or experience with agile techniques and processes
- Knowledge and/or experience with Project Management techniques and processes
- Knowledge of other agile approaches: XP, Kanban, etc.
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with other departments to resolve issues.
- Strong critical thinking skills: strong knowledge of data analysis techniques to interpret results.
- Strong ability to communicate with all levels of the organization, verbally and written, providing project status reports and analytical summaries and escalates issues as needed.
- Strong requirements elicitation and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple complex assignments, projects, priorities and timelines.
Required Experience & Education:
- CSM (Certified Scrum Master),SAFe Scrum Master, and/or PMP certification a plus
- Knowledge of other agile approaches: XP, Kanban, etc.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft application software (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Project)
- Jira experience is a plus
- Project management experience is a plus
