Scrum Master(Pharma Domain)

Job Role: Agile Scum Master

Location : Remote

Lab, biotech or pharma company managing development and/or IT projects.

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Agile Scum Master - Team Coach:

We are seeking and exceptional individual (Servant Leader); to lead a high performing Agile team in Scaled agile transformation. As a true Servant Leader - Lead by example, Leader as a Coach , exhibiting not managing the team and being authoritative & biased

You will be Guardian of agile ways of working & enabler for high performing team. The key focus of this role will be to inspire, influence and guide the team in best practices of agile development methodology like Scrum /Kanban/Lean/TDD. Ensures that the team’s work is aligned with the Program’s agreed design principles, engineering practices, governance and quality standards.

Mentor team to meet be self-organized and take ownership of sprint goals, PI Objectives and providing coaching and guidance as needed to grow capability and productivity.

YOUR POWER PLAY ROLE :

Reporting to the Global Agile Practice Director (COE & Practice) and aligned to an RTE of Agile Release Train you will be empowered to:

• Showcase and enhance your team coach competencies to build a performing team and train the team in Scrum, Built-in-Quality, Kanban, SAFe and ensure that the agreed Agile processes/practices are followed.

• Empowered to Create and maintains physiological safety and team trust & live by Lean Agile Values

• Facilitate various Scrum activities & represent team in all ART level events for alignment

• Coaching team on agile mindset, ways of working and culture on continuous improvement

• Acting as servant leader to Remove roadblocks reported by the team, which could require cross-team collaboration or working with executive leadership

• Train, guide and coach the teams on agile practices consistent with team standards and helping them achieve their commitments and objectives day to day, sprint-to-sprint.

• Improving the agile culture by coaching via gamifications, Kaizen, Agile maturity assessments and measuring – help team to improve in velocity and Sprint success and strive for continuous improvement

• Establish strong working relationships with other teams across the organization to identify dependencies and align priorities and deliverables

• A clear mechanism or tool to report up status, risks, and impediments - create and measure teams according to metrics established by the team. Anticipate challenges, identify risks and recommend mitigations and solutions. Own and drive those solutions.

• Helping team(s) in backlog creation, running product inception workshops, User Story mapping workshops, Prioritization techniques, estimations etc. (must have) awareness on test & release automation practices etc. so that they can guide & bring in right people to provide solutions

• Work with product owners and stakeholders to ensure they are well engaged with the team and part of the regular feedback loop.

• Identify resources constraints or needs - when additional resources (HW, technical or human) are needed to remove impediments and distractions from the team

• Lead continuous improvement efforts with teams by implementing take-aways from retrospectives and implementing concrete solutions to make the teams more efficient and improve delivery success.

• Helping team on improving the engineering & automation practices so knowledge of fundamentals of software development processes, engineering practices and procedures is must

• Helping teams with use of Agile ALM tools, and processes – Knowledge of Jira/any tool as per project need

• Focus on building high performance teams by continuously learning & coaching team on growth mindset

• Exceptional leadership, Conflict handling & management, interpersonal communications, investigative, negotiation, collaboration, and virtual management skills

Work Experience:

• Must have recent work experience as a scrum master in a Lab, biotech or pharma company managing development and/or IT projects.

• Business Acumen, specifically experience in diagnostics space and has high level technical understanding (needed to be effective with the team)

• Leading Agile teams in distributed agile environment

• Certified Scrum Master and Certified SAFe Scrum Master

• 5+ years of relevant experience and Proficiency with Agile tools and methodology

• Experience in Rally and Jira

Thanks & Regards

Ritik Sahu

Raas Infotek Corporation.

262 Chapman Road, Suite 105A,

Newark, DE -19702

Direct No: 302 286 9939 Ext: 109

Email: [email protected]