Job description

  • • Serve as a Scrum Master for multiple teams across the program wherever required
  • • Experience in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is required
  • • Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure cross team dependencies are well understood and modeled in project plans and timelines
  • • Identify document and publish risks and issues related to the overall program and define resolution paths where required
  • • Resolve cross team impediments and blocking issues
  • • Collect and consolidate cross team status for delivery to stakeholders and executive management
  • • Schedule and conduct meetings and ceremonies in accordance with best practices for Agile/Scrum software development
  • • Responsible for building team collaboration commitment towards achieving sprint objectives and viewing team needs above everything else
  • • Continuously working to improve team performance and productivity: Encourage team accountability self organization and empowerment
  • • Share common Agile practices
  • • Promote and support the development team s automated processes
  • • Facilitate Retrospectives which generate new ideas for process improvement
  • • Maintain relevant metrics that guide the development team to more efficient processes in their work and in satisfying their Product Owner and stakeholders
  • • Maintain effective information radiators that aid transparency and encourage clear communication between the development team the Product Owner and stakeholders
  • • Active participant in the local scrum chapters to share and learn new agile concepts
  • • Requirements: A Scrum Master Certification or equivalent experience
  • • Demonstrated 5+ years of experience in delivering software products and at least 2+ years in a Scrum Master role
  • • Pharmaceutical experience is a plus
  • • Experience as a Scrum Master within enterprise scale SDLC environments
  • • Subject matter expert of Scrum in addition to extensive knowledge of other Agile development approaches and practices
  • • Experience with Jira project management tools and implementation of best practices in Agile tools and workflows
  • • Effective communicator with excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • • Must be comfortable communicating with development teams Product Owners Product Management and Senior Management
  • • Effective facilitation and conflict resolution skills must be able to facilitate discussion of multiple approaches and drive resolution
  • • Effective influencer able to work upward and across teams to build rapport and partner with others to solve common problems
  • • Elevated level of personal accountability as evidenced by their commitment resilience ownership and mindset toward continuous learning
  • • Continual improvement must be constantly growing ones craft learning new tools and techniques and sharing these within and among teams
  • • Assertive must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to must be able to be a voice of reason and authority and make tough calls
  • • Ability to facilitate understand and contribute to technical discussions
  • • High motivation and drive to help the program teams excel and deliver based on program timelines
  • • Excellent interpersonal skills ability to work with diverse personality types