Job Title: Scrum Master – Enterprise AI Platforms

Career Level - D

Introduction to Role:

Join our dynamic Enterprise AI platform team at AstraZeneca as a Scrum Master. This role is pivotal in setting up, evolving, and driving the scrum structure, including all ceremonies and metrics for the platform teams as per AstraZeneca ADF guidelines. There's never been a better time to join us as we bring our digital strategy to life.

Accountabilities:

As a Scrum Master, you will ensure that Scrum is understood and the team adheres to its theory, practice, and guidelines. You will have solid exposure to the product-platform ways of working in an Agile environment. You will work with the Scrum Team, as well as internal and external collaborators, to influence and drive decision-making and support organizational project or product teams. Your role will involve facilitating and supporting all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. You will upskill team members and facilitate end-of-sprint retrospectives, contributing to the team's understanding of their in-sprint performance.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Overall, demonstrated ability

• Hands-on experience as Scrum Master for at least 3-4 years

• Experience in Project Management Tools

• CSM/equivalent certification

• Excellent Mentor skills

• Bachelors in engineering (preferably Computer Science) or equivalent

• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing visibility.

• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques. Planning and problem-solving with product management and delivery teams

• Experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques to improve the Scrum approach (e.g., progress visualization techniques, retrospective formats, approaches for handling bugs, etc.).

• Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g., XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.)

• Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and verbal

• Excellent coaching and mentoring skills

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and daring world.

At AstraZeneca, we are on a journey to become a digital and data-led enterprise. Our work has a direct impact on patients by transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working by combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. We dare to lead by applying our problem-solving attitude to identify and tackle opportunities across the whole enterprise. Our spirit of experimentation is lived every day through our events like hackathons. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering elite technology and data solutions.

Are you ready to disrupt an industry and change lives? Apply now to be part of a team that has the backing to innovate and make a significant impact.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.