Scrum Master, Consultant

Your Role

As a Scrum Master at Stellarus, you'll play a critical role in accelerating the delivery of innovative healthcare solutions by empowering Agile teams to do their best work. Serving as a coach, facilitator, and servant leader, you'll help teams embrace Lean-Agile practices, remove obstacles, drive continuous improvement, and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation. By enabling high-performing teams to deliver value faster and more effectively, you'll directly contribute to Stellarus' mission of transforming the healthcare experience through technology and data-driven solutions.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Lead Agile delivery across multiple teams and products within a platform or business area.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities across Engineering, Product, QA, Operations, Release Management, and leadership.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and delivery commitments across multiple teams.
• Establish delivery governance, planning processes, and reporting mechanisms that improve execution and transparency.
• Coach teams and Product Owners on Agile practices, flow optimization, and outcome-based delivery.
• Drive continuous planning activities and alignment across teams and stakeholders.
• Analyze delivery metrics and implement improvements that increase predictability, quality, and flow.
• Promote Dev Ops practices, automation, operational excellence, and engineering maturity.
• Facilitate resolution of cross-team impediments and organizational challenges.
• Influence broader adoption of Agile and Lean ways of working across the organization.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, plus a minimum of 7 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Project Manager, or delivery leader.
• Demonstrated experience supporting multiple Agile teams or large-scale initiatives.
• Advanced knowledge of Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, and scaled delivery approaches.
• Experience managing cross-team dependencies, delivery risks, and stakeholder communication.
• Demonstrated use of flow metrics and delivery analytics to improve outcomes.
• Experience coaching Product Owners, delivery teams, and stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation, influence, and organizational change management skills.
• Experience in technology, platform engineering, Dev Ops, or product organizations.
• Required certification: PSM II, A-CSM, CSP-SM, ICAgile, SAFe, or equivalent

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About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.
Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission,…