Scrum Master

**Job Title: Scrum Master**

**Career level - D1**

**Introduction to role**

At AstraZeneca, we believe in more than just making life-changing medicines; we believe in a future where discovery is defined by bold, dynamic, and visionary individuals. As a Scrum Master, you’ll be at the forefront of a revolution in drug discovery, harnessing the power of remarkable technology and advanced AI capabilities. Work collaboratively in our dynamic, globally distributed team to design and develop data products in the cloud, accelerating scientific breakthroughs like never before.

**Accountabilities**:

- Running sprints in JIRA/Confluence with all standard Agile Ceremonies along with Sprint planning, Backlog refinement and Stand-ups
- Agile coaching for your Scrum Teams and supporting the Product Owner, especially with respect to refinement and maintaining the product backlog
- Updating JIRA with progress, structuring JIRA dashboards and completing Sprint reports
- Resolving sprint blockers and managing capacity allocation during delivery for 1 or 2 Sprint teams
- Coordinating Product-owner led Demos, Performance Metric reviews and Retrospectives
- Identifying and Implementing measurable continuous improvements within the Scrum teams
- Facilitate the team's progress toward Sprint goals, commitments, and successful delivery - Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
- Foster a positive team environment, growing the team's candour and confidence to take on challenges. Ensure everyone is respected, contributes effectively, and is heard
- Resolving sprint blockers and managing resource allocation during sprints delivery from multiple teams
- Acts as a change agent that increases the productivity of the team
- Removing impediments to the development progress, actively coordinating with external teams to resolve dependencies, and timely escalation when beyond the team’s control
- Ensure ongoing and active collaboration between the Product Owner and the Development team for Story definition and acceptance, ensuring the development quality products first time

**Essential Skills/Experience**:

- Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least 5 years for a software/data development team.
- Experience with widely successful Agile approaches and techniques.
- Experience engaging project stakeholders not familiar with Scrum.
- Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills.
- Experience as a Leader, Motivator and Facilitator.
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability.
- Some traditional project management experience (eg. Coordinate release management, create project documentation, manage communications to stakeholders, negotiate schedule with stakeholders, provide status reports to stakeholders not familiar with Agile methods).
- Jira knowledge and usage.

**Desirable Skills/Experience**:
NA

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 ambitious world.

AstraZeneca is a place where your work has a direct impact on patients' lives. We combine cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data to drive productivity and innovation. Our dynamic environment offers countless opportunities to learn and grow while working on projects that transform our ability to develop life-changing medicines.