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Job DescriptionOur Architecture team is focused on bringing new and emerging infrastructure technologies to CVS Health while delivering them in an iterative and incremental manner. You will be a champion change agent who can align cross-functional teams to ensure the best possible experience for our business partners. Scrum Masters who join our team are passionate about people and prioritize helping other get things done. Our Scrum Masters communicate, coordinate, and facilitate, doing whatever it takes to help the team deliver on the goals. You are an Agilist that promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery, and encourages a rapid and flexible response to change while coaching the team into being self-organizing and adopting agile principles. As an Agile Practitioner you will wear many hats such as Scrum Master/Agile Coach/Product Manager to help teams climb out of chaos and resistance by helping teams & programs operate using Agile principles If you're excited to be part of a winning team, this is a great place to grow your career In this role, you can expect to... Assist the Product Owner by: Making sure everyone on the team understands the product & sprint goals and scope Helping maintain the backlog Facilitating agile rituals /events (daily stand ups, retros, backlog refinement, etc.) Working with Product Owner and team to break down Features into Product Backlog items that meet the Feature's acceptance criteria and goal(s) Forecasting team velocity and partners with Product Owner to develop timeline/roadmap utilizing dashboards and other visual metrics Assist the Team by: Ensure the team's work (ALL of it) is on the board, visible and understood Coaching the team into the self-organization Protects the team from scope creep and distractions Resolves impediments that prevent the team from moving forward Address and resolves concerns raised in retrospectives Provides data points to feed into metrics dashboards (burndown, velocity, impediments, risks and decisions) Identifies dependencies, tradeoff's, and risks that may appear in the requirements backlog Collaborates with documentation teams to ensure proper documentation of product capabilities Aid the team in developing, modifying, and adhering to a team working agreement Assessing team maturity and recommend to the team an appropriate agile framework, utilizing your in-depth knowledge of the agile frameworks such as SAFe/Scrum and Kanban along with industry and technology experiences Assist the organization by: Encouraging the adoption of proper agile methodologies in the workflow Coaching their team(s) on the transition to a working scrum framework By working with other teams to coordinate cross-team dependencies in order to facilitate team goals, including Scrum of ScrumsRequired QualificationsThe ideal candidate will exhibit strong leadership skills; will be forward thinking, self-motivated, and able to join a diverse, highly team; continuously striving for excellence.1. 5+ yrs. direct experience leading scaled-agile execution for infrastructure technology teams, prior framework experience may include: SCRUM/Kanban, Scrumban, SAFe, Spotify squad framework2. 5+ yrs experience in analyzing current systems and processes and recommending a design a strategy for the adoption of agile best practices3.Experience leading at-least 2 to 3 end-to-end agile transformation journeysCOVID RequirementsCOVID-19 Vaccination RequirementCVS Health requires certain colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, religious belief, or other legally recognized reasons that prevents them from being vaccinated. You are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status or apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment. Please note that in some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination or an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work.Preferred Qualifications1. Experience with CA Rally helpful2. Ability to identify and nurture value streams - direct experience converting traditional waterfall project silos into lean-agile value streams3. Very well versed with all Agile concepts4. Candidate should be a proven leader with the ability to lead and mentor cross cultural team across technology and functional experts.5. Guide teams to help them stay on track with agile techniques, fine-tuning approaches as needed to ensure the overall strategy is being met6. Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of agile best practices7. Effective facilitation skills at the team level; Ability to remain neutral, apply conflict management & establish trust8. Comfortable having difficult conversations and actively coach others on improving facilitation skillsEducationBachelor's Degree in computer science or business, or equivalent other hands-on experienceBusiness OverviewBring your heart to CVS HealthEvery one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand - with heart at its center - our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.Our Heart At Work Behaviors support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.