AddressLocation India, Remote (Work from Anywhere in India)
Minimum Qualification B. Tech. or equivalent from an accredited institution
Indicative Experience 10+ Years
Domain Preferably Life-Sciences/Pharma.
Customer Profile Captive research and development pods for a $ 500 million group of pharma data research companies that help patients gain access to life-saving therapies. We help our clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle, from pipeline to patient.
Other benefits Health Insurance, Provident Fund, Life Insurance, Reimbursement of Certification Expenses, Gratuity, 24x7 Health Desk
About the Company
We are headquartered in Pittsburgh USA with locations across the globe we are a team of thoughtful experts driven by the power of our client's unique ideas. We also have micro offices in Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, and Delhi NCR in India.
While technical expertise is ingrained into Agilite's DNA, we are more than just engineers and developers — we are trusted product strategists. We pride ourselves on being a ready resource for critical market insights with the knowledge and experience required to design, build, and scale big ideas to serve our growing list of customers in the USA and Europe.
Our preferred working model is "Work from Anywhere" (WFA). In addition, you can also decide on your work timings: All we need is the outcome.
Our people-centric culture is built on the belief that extraordinary employees create amazing things. Work with us and attain your Ikigai in a place where your aspirations and business objectives intersect!
Job Description
Have you wondered how lifesaving drugs and therapies are created, tested, marketed, and made available to patients in need? Have you wondered how clinical trials are conducted at a global scale? How governments and health authorities regulate various organizations participating in this marketplace? Have you wondered how those companies and insurance providers price a certain drug, and how a care provider determines the right treatment for a given patient?
Reporting into Senior Director of Agile Excellence, the scrum master will manage delivery teams, Scrum or otherwise, taking ownership of the delivery of specific Agile projects.
You'll take an Agile approach to deliver artefacts in line with agreed designs, meet the business/customer requirements and be in accordance with defined quality, coding standards and architectural principles.
You'll ensure that implementations are in line with enterprise architecture principles and agreed design, thereby delivering quality code into test and production environments.
This role is a crossover one, with elements of a Delivery Manager and a Scrum master. It therefore has essential attributes from both.
We are looking for an experienced delivery manager with great communication skills, deep experience in Agile, and most importantly, the ability and willingness to keep learning in this ever-changing technology landscape.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Delivery
- Support/run scrum of scrums, when required.
- Support the day to day running of the Agile delivery teams, helping them to meet their commitment to their sprint goal when required.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, when required, with a focus on collaboration and empowering people, as opposed to just doing administrative tasks around the ceremonies and JIRA.
- Plan, direct, coordinated, and monitored activities of delivery teams involved in analysis, design, and development.
- Ensure consistent reporting and review of data/metrics being supplied.
- Ensure learnings from each sprint are applied across all squads.
- Ensure Product Engineering delivers high-quality solutions across all squads.
- Propose and roll out processes to enable the Product Engineering teams to deliver efficiently and effectively.
Working Together
- Shield the team from distractions. Remove impediments. Follow through with retrospective actions. Continuously review progress against the benchmarks (Agile health reports)
- Ensure blockers are owned and removed so the teams can continue working with minimal delay.
- Serve the team in whatever capacity is required to allow the team to deliver against the Project Goal and help the team in optimizing how they work to complete the stories targeted to a Sprint effectively.
- Apply the appropriate level of Agile governance to the delivery process, covering communication, reporting, and metrics.
- Ensure relevant Agile governance is applied across all squads.
- Coach and mentor Scrum masters and Product Engineering technology teams on Agile practices
Mandatory Skills:
Clear understanding of continuous software delivery lifecycle
Good understanding of Agile software development techniques (such as TDD, BDD, CI)
Experience with the Atlassian toolset, in particular, Jira and Confluence
Advanced JIRA knowledge (workflows, schemes, fields, etc.)
Experience with Agile development and delivery Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban methodologies
A thorough understanding of software development practices is desirable but not essential
Being a Certified Scrum Master is desirable but not essential
Experience within the pharma/healthcare sector is a plus
Able to manage the impact and risk of decisions
Proactive and passionate about learning new things and improving existing challenges
Ability to encourage efficient and effective communication and continuous improvement
Effective stakeholder management. Ability to influence others to achieve a common goal.
