Scrum Master

**Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients**:
At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas -Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease
- we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

**Scrum Master**:
**About Amgen**:
Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today.

**What you will do**:
**Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Lead and facilitate agile events including stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, demos and backlog refinement meetings to promote team collaboration.
- Work with Product Owners to refine and prioritize the backlog ensuring the team delivers high-value outcomes aligned with business objectives.
- Resolve conflicts and remove impediments hindering team’s progress. Escalate risks and cross-Team dependency to ensure that they are addressed in a timely manner.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the Teams by leading retrospectives, encouraging innovation, promoting Agile engineering practices and DevOps culture.
- Monitor and report on the progress of the Team ensuring transparency and alignment with Sprint goals and Team objectives.
- Help the scrum teams achieve delivery acceleration focused on business outcomes by reaching higher levels of scrum maturity.
- Support scaling Agile by engaging in cross-team ceremonies and Program Increment (PI) planning to align team activities with Agile Release Train (ART) objectives.

**What we expect of you**:
**Basic Qualifications and Experience**:

- Master’s degree in computer science or engineering field and 1 to 3 years of relevant experience OR
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering field and 3 to 5 years of relevant experience OR
- Diploma and Minimum of 8+ years of relevant work experience

**Functional Skills**:
**Must-Have Skills**:

- Certified Scrum Master or SAFe Scrum Master or similar (mandatory)
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies particularly the Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Prior experience with Agile project management tools, such as Jira, Confluence and Jira Align
- Experience in guiding teams through Agile events and ensuring adherence to agreed practices and behaviors
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection and other Scrum Techniques
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling complex challenges with data
- Collaborative spirit and effective communication skills to work seamlessly in a cross-functional team
- Good understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

**Good-to-Have Skills**:

- Good understanding of DevOps and Test Automation Processes in software delivery
- Certified SAFe Practitioner (preferred)

**Soft Skills**:

- Excellent analytical and solve skills
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills (English) in translating technology content into business-language at various levels
- Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
- High degree of initiative and self-motivation
- Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully
- Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong time and task leadership skills to estimate and successfully meet project timeline with ability to bring consistency and quality assurance across various projects.

**Work Hours**:
**What you can expect of us**:
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

**for a career that defies imagination**

Objects in your future are closer than they