Specialist, Scrum Master - India (Guidewire InsuranceNow, Data Analytics)
nationwide · Telangana - Hyderabad, Building No. 14, Mindspace Madhapur, HITEC City ·
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- Lead
- Category
- Data analytics
nationwide · Telangana - Hyderabad, Building No. 14, Mindspace Madhapur, HITEC City ·
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About the Role:
Nationwide is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support the NIO team and help lead a high-performing, self-organized Agile team. This role will facilitate delivery, strengthen team effectiveness, remove impediments, and build strong partnerships across U.S. and NIO-based stakeholders.
The ideal candidate is a servant leader with demonstrated success guiding Agile teams through complex technology delivery. They will bring strong written and verbal communication skills, confident leadership, excellent facilitation, and hands-on experience with Jira Cloud.
Experience supporting Guidewire InsuranceNow (GIN) or Data and Analytics teams is strongly preferred. GIN-related work may include policy administration, integrations, batch processing, data movement, ETL, or operational stability initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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Job Description Summary
If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Coaches and mentor team members on Agile practices and principles.
Removes impediments to the team’s progress; escalate obstacles requiring outside resolution. Identifies risks and issues that might have an impact on delivery and facilitates a mitigation strategy.
Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Assists in the prioritization of work to maximize value towards business outcomes.
Collaborates with the Agile Team(s) to provide guidance in the areas of analysis, design, development, testing, automation, and deployment while ensuring the best capability practices are used.
Guides and enables DevOps, DataOps, AI/MLOps through the adoption and refinement of Agile practices.
Monitors and reports on team progress and performance through enterprise and industry metrics while maintaining data quality supporting metric accuracy.
Collaborates with team and leadership on demand and financials. Actively participates in variable staffing functions for the line.
Facilitates team cadences (e.g., retrospective, daily standups, and show-and-tell meetings) to encourage collaboration, communication, and feedback within the team; promote a learning culture and challenge the team to be innovative.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications & Experience:
Education:
Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or related field is strongly preferred.
Experience:
Three to five years of software delivery experience including two years as a Scrum Master or similar role. Strong technical expertise in one or more Agile practices and frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. Plus, a technical background in Software Engineering. Three or more years working with ALM tools and Microsoft Office Suite.
Technical Skills:
Business Acumen
CI/CD
DevOps
Incident Management
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Scrum/Agile
Software Testing
Technology Roadmap
Vendor Management
Soft Skills & Attributes:
Effective communication and collaboration skills
Mentoring and coaching abilities to guide associates
Identifying and removing blockers to progress
Ability to work in agile and global environments
Strong candidates will understand Agile practices and frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban and Lean, Ability to coach team members and have team first mindset. Effective communication, solid problem-solving skills and a proven ability to improve a team’s performance.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
Additional Information:
Reporting Structure:
Reports to Technology Director – India or higher
Working Hours:
Aligned to India business hours with flexibility for global collaboration.
Location Flexibility:
[Hybrid/Remote/In-office] with periodic in-office collaboration.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Nationwide is committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, gender, disability, religion, or other protected categories.
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