Scrum Master

**Description**

**About Norstella**:
At Norstella, our mission is simple: to help our clients bring life-saving therapies to market quicker—and help patients in need.

Founded in 2022, but with history going back to 1939, Norstella unites best-in-class brands to help clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle —and get the right treatments to the right patients at the right time.

Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making. Together, via our market-leading brands, we help our clients:

- Citeline - accelerate the drug development cycle
- Evaluate - bring the right drugs to market
- MMIT - identify barrier to patient access
- Panalgo - turn data into insight faster
- The Dedham Group - think strategically for specialty therapeutics

By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics. As one of the largest global pharma intelligence solution providers, Norstella has a footprint across the globe with teams of experts delivering world class solutions in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Japan, China and India.
**Role**:
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.

**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, coordinate and monitor activities of delivery teams involved in analysis, design, development
- Ensure consistent reporting and review data/metrics being supplied
- Ensure learnings from each sprint are applied across all squads
- Ensure Product Engineering deliver 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 that the teams can continue working with mínimal delay
- Serve the team in whatever capacity is required to allow the team to deliver against the Project Goal and help the team in optimising how they work to effectively complete the stories targeted to a Sprint
- Ensure relevant Agile governance is applied across all squads
- Coach and mentor Scrum masters and Product Engineering technology teams on Agile practises

**Requirements**:

- Clear understanding of continuous software delivery lifecycle
- Good understanding of Agile software development techniques (such as TDD, BDD, CI)
- Experience with the Atlassian tool set, in particular Jira and Confluence
- Advanced JIRA knowledge (workflows, schemes, fields, etc)
- Experience with Agile development and delivery - Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban methodologies
- Thorough understanding of software development practices is desirable but definitely not essential
- Being a Certified Scrum Master is desirable but definitely not essential
- Experience within 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.

**Our guiding principles for success at Norstella**:
01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First
We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do.

02: Integrity, Truth, Reality
We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our