AddressThis is where you save and sustain lives
At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.
Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.
Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.
Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.
About Us
Nothing changes if nothing changes, which is why Baxter is transforming our global IT function—into one that will strengthen partnerships and enable smarter, more efficient and connected business processes. In the dynamic healthcare industry, we need to be ready to face new challenges and opportunities. As we learn, we must be agile and innovative to reveal new ways of working. Technology and our digital capability will help create a more efficient and innovative ecosystem to enable our employees, customers, and products to drive better outcomes for patients worldwide.
We are at the critical intersection where robust IT infrastructure and networking support meets the physicians, nurses and care givers who save and sustain lives. Together, we can build upon Baxter’s rich heritage to advance the next generation of transformative healthcare innovations. Together, we can change how IT meets healthcare. Together, we are Baxter.
This is where technology fuels purpose-driven work. Where your purpose accelerates our mission.
Title: Scrum Master, IT-HST
Location: Bangalore
What you’ll be doing
- Ensures the team(s) achieve their stated objectives by reinforcing SAFe framework and Scrum principles, keeping the team focused on their goals, and facilitating all standard ceremonies
- Organize and facilitate all scrum related meetings (stand-ups, retrospectives, reviews, demos, etc.).
- Facilitates getting the work done
- Work with the team to develop project plans, roadmaps and manage backlog.
- Communicate team plans, report impediments for escalation, identify risks/concerns to relevant stakeholders to help resolve.
- Monitor team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflects the current state of the sprint.
- Work with product owners and stakeholders to refine vision and establish goals and metrics.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint progress to all affected teams and management.
- Organize and facilitate the product release by following all the governance standards.
What you’ll bring
- Knowledge of well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, Retrospective formats, handling of bugs, etc.)
- Strong collaboration, facilitation, and conflict management skills
- Experience with test driven development and automated testing is desired.
- Ability to organize and present technical status to senior management
- Demonstrated success in delivering results on several technical challenges.
- Inspires others to raise their performance bar, highly organized and brings quality orientation to everything they do (emails, document, code, etc.)
- Passionate about continuous learning, can do attitude, wears Thinkers Hat, can work collaboratively with diverse teams, leverages current technologies, and believes in process simplification, quality conscious.
- Strong collaboration, facilitation, and conflict management skills
- Proactively identifies & removes project obstacles on behalf of the team
- Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill Personal Attributes
Background and/or Experience
- Bachelors / Masters .in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering or related field and 7+ years related experience.
- 4+ years of experience leading both Scrum and Kanban Agile Teams.
- Knowledge of tools used to assist with scrum team planning (ServiceNow, Jira, Agile Manager, Version1, etc.).
- First Level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I) and/or SAFe Practitioner certification strongly preferred.
Desired Characteristics
- Understanding of regulated Healthcare industry, FDA design controls requirements is an advantage
- Previous experience in regulated medical device company
Reasonable Accommodations
Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please click on the link here and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.
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