Consultant, Scrum Master

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care. We are seeking a Consultant, Scrum Master to strengthen delivery discipline, execution transparency, and collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Delivery. This role will use Jira/Planview, capacity data, flow metrics, and quality signals to improve predictability; apply strong SDLC, DevOps, CI/CD, testing, and release-flow knowledge; ensure accurate portfolio status reporting; coach teams toward ownership and continuous improvement; and facilitate productive ceremonies and constructive conflict resolution. Success will include stable delivery cadence, reliable reporting, earlier risk and dependency management, and strong partnerships with the Delivery Project Manager, Product Owner, and engineering leaders.

Facilitates team cadence (e.g., retrospective, daily standups and show-and-tell meetings) to encourage collaboration, communication and feedback within the team; promotes a learning culture and challenges the team to be innovative. Removes impediments to the team’s progress; communicates obstacles requiring outside resolution to the partners. Identifies risks and issues that might have an impact on delivery and facilitates a mitigation strategy for risks. Collaborates with partners to prioritize the backlog to maximize value and create clarity on the team activities. Collaborates with the agile technology team to provide guidance to the team in the areas of analysis, design, development and testing, and ensures that standard methodologies are used. Guides and enables automation, software engineering practices, such as DevSecOps, to improve quality, productivity, efficiency and consistency of processes and product Monitors team metrics, such as time to market (speed), quality and productivity and progress using historical data, observations and experiences to achieve team goals and commitments; leads the team to deliver high-quality solutions.  Improves team delivery capabilities continuously by adopting Nationwide Agile Practices, collaborating and coaching. Provides a technical voice on the team to challenge decisions such as design approach, estimates, etc. May perform other responsibilities as assigned. It is our intention to fill this role in Columbus, Ohio. The team comes into the office for collaboration twice a week on Mondays and Tuesdays. However, on occasion, applications from internal candidates working remotely who bring critical industry skills and relevant experience may be considered. This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization.  Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program. #LI-AM1 Job Description Summary If you’re all about delivering technology solutions to support a company providing outstanding care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology may be place for you! Our industry-leading technology workforce adopts an agile work environment and a collaborative and inclusive culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you! As an Agile Leader, you'll facilitate a robust, self-organized agile technology team responsible for building and/or enhancing software with high quality. You’ll collaborate with partners to deliver objectives, using appropriate software delivery practices (e.g., scrum, iterative, Lean) to continuously improve software delivery efficiency, and quality. You will play a key role in guiding delivery from story card creation to implementation and participate