SAP 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.

**What you will do**

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will facilitate communication and collaboration among teams, ensuring alignment with the program vision, handling risks and dependencies, and driving steadfast improvement. They also often participate in the Agile / Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) transformation, mentoring leaders and teams in the new attitude and processes. They help adapt SAFe to the organization’s needs, standardizing and documenting practices

**Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Lead and manage Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) product teams’ delivery using Scaled agile frameworks and techniques. Align with Agile values such as prioritizing individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
- Lead and facilitate agile events including stand-ups, sprint/PI planning, sprint/PI reviews, retrospectives, demos and backlog refinement meetings to promote team collaboration.
- Advise SAFe events, including PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Inspect & Adapt workshops.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business requirements and develop solutions that meet customer needs.
- Work with Product Owners, Product and Solution Management, and collaborators to ensure strategy and execution alignment
- Help the scrum teams achieve delivery acceleration passionate about business outcomes by reaching higher levels of scrum maturity
- Identify, advance, and manage risks and dependencies across Teams and Agile release train (ART) to ensure that they are addressed in a timely manner
- Coordinate with Services and support to schedule resolution of issues with released products
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the Teams by leading retrospectives and encouraging innovation
- Supervise and report on the progress of the Team, ensuring transparency and alignment with solution objectives

**What we expect of you**

We are all different, yet we all use our outstanding contributions to serve patients.

**Basic Qualifications**:

- Master’s degree and 4 to 6 years of Computer Science, Business, Engineering, IT or related field experience OR
- Bachelor’s degree and 6 to 8 years of Computer Science, Business, Engineering, IT or related field experience OR
- Diploma and 10 to 12 years of Computer Science, Business, Engineering, IT or related field experience

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- 8+ years experience in SAP project management environment and at least 3+ year experience as a scrum master of SAP agile delivery teams
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, particularly the 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 SAFe practices and behaviors
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling sophisticated challenges with data
- Collaborative spirit and effective communication skills to work seamlessly in a cross-functional team

**Good-to-Have Skills**:

- Deep understanding of DevOps and Test Automation Processes in software delivery
- Workshop facilitation and training experience

**Professional Certifications (please mention if the certification is preferred or mandatory for the role)**:

- Certified SAFe Scrum Master or similar (preferred)
- SAP Certified Application Associate (preferred)

**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 appear. Join us.