- Overall 10+ experience as a Scrum Master
- Must have recent work experience of 5+ years as a scrum master in a Lab, biotech or pharma company managing development and/or IT projects.
- Well versed in running agile team ceremonies/events
- 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 (onshore – offshore model)
- Certified Scrum Master and Certified SAFe Scrum Master
- 5+ years of relevant experience and Proficiency with Agile tools and methodology
- Extensive experience in creating the dashboards and generating Agile metrics for the team
- Experience in Rally and Jira
Reporting to the Global Agile Practice Director (COE & Practice) and aligned to an RTE of Agile Release Train you will be empowered to:
- Showcase, manage 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 different leads
- Train, guide and mentor 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. Create dashboards and maintain metrics at team level as per standards defined by LACE
- Anticipate challenges, identify risks and recommend mitigations and solutions. Own and drive those solutions.
- Facilitating team’s backlog creation, running scrum events including 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