At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.

Our Business

Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2023 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2023.

Working at Selective

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely - we employ uniqueness. Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs. Employees receive comprehensive total rewards packages - including competitive compensation and performance awards, health benefits, and retirement savings - and professional development opportunities and flexible schedules to support their health, wealth, and well-being. Join our team and help make a difference.

Overview:

Selective Insurance Commercial Lines IT Delivery is seeking a Scrum Master who coordinates and facilitates agile events, such as Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives, and acts as first level escalation for impediments impacting the Development Team members. The Agile Practitioner is responsible for empowering delivery teams to effectively deliver business results using agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.

Responsibilities:

• Act as an agile leader and coach for two agile teams of low to moderate complexity, each generally ranging in size from 5 - 12 individuals.
• Be a key member of an Agile team on an Agile Release Train.
• Facilitates and coaches their teams on agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives. Coaching of other agile team members and their Product Owners in Lean/Agile values, practices, tools, and methodologies.
• Participate in and facilitate team level planning, execution, and continuous improvement.
• Accountable for delivery for small to moderately sized epics across the entire application lifecycle, aligned with an agile methodology. This includes project initiation, facilitating project scope management, addressing dependencies across teams, providing status, and managing risks/issues.
• Facilitate the creation and maintenance of Product Vision and Roadmaps to enable teams to align execution to business value. Work with project leadership to report status, escalate and resolve issues, and communicate changes in scope or execution.
• Work with the Product Owner and Development Teams to facilitate the refinement, estimation, planning, and execution of features and stories in alignment with agile best practices.
• Drives continuous improvement on agile teams using techniques such as Inspect & Adapt, Retrospectives, and Root Cause Analysis.
• Facilitate tracking and reporting of agile metrics at the team level such as lead time, velocity, defect leakage, etc. to encourage transparency and continuous improvement.
• Partner with the Release Train Engineer on SAFe facilitation and execution.

Qualifications:

• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to work directly with technical and product teams.
• Experience managing delivery efforts of $250,000 or more.
• Knowledge of modern Agile frameworks and lean principles.
• Proficient with Agile project management software such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
• An understanding of the business of software (the software development lifecycle, product focused development, etc...)
• 5+ years of related experience in software development, with 1+ years direct Agile Scrum or Kanban experience.
• Knowledge of Insurance Industry a plus.
• CSM, SSM or PSM certification preferred.

Salary range: $104,000 - $150,000. The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include the candidate's qualifications and experience.

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual's unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences - and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.

Selective maintains a drug-free workplace.