Scrum Master

**Job Title - Scrum Master**

**Career Level - D2**

**About Astrazeneca**:
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

**Who we are**:
The Global Business Service (GBS) team sits within Finance at AstraZeneca and is a dynamic and results-oriented environment and provides a range of enterprise-wide services. We dare to change the way we work by freeing up the business to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We aim to do this by freeing up time, freeing up money, protecting AZ’s value and providing new capabilities.

**What we do**:
A trusted partner to the business, we’re on a mission to make AstraZeneca more agile, efficient and effective. Through our hybrid model of in-house delivery centers and service towers across the globe, we’re reimagining how we work. Here we drive new ways of working and operating models, process simplification and innovative solutions, whilst ensuring that automation and data is at the heart of everything.

**How we do it**:
Be part of a team building a community. We interact with diverse cultures and perspectives and are united by our sense of belonging. This is the place to learn and grow together.

**Why we love it**:

- As a growing multi-national company, there’s so much potential to develop. Adopt opportunities at a global business that’s facing new and varied challenges. This is the place to build an exemplary, international CV.
- A fun place to be, we’re creating community hubs that build partnerships, not just working relationships.
- We’re on an exciting journey to take our team to the next stage. This is the place to leave a legacy behind.

**About the role**:
We seek an expert Scrum Master to join our newly formed Field Reporting Service Team. This team supports the US BBU (Biopharmaceuticals Business Unit) Strategic Field Operations (SFO) department and AZ's US BBU Field Force for their Reporting & Analytics needs.

This individual will serve as the Scrum of Scrum Master by coordinating an ART (Agile Release Train) for a distributed team of 30+ Dev/Ops Report Analysts and Data Engineers, split across 4-5 teams, all of which provide Field Reporting solutions to the US BBU SFO Team.

This individual should have a passion for bringing standard methodologies into the business while actively sharing business perspectives, knowledge and lessons learned to contribute and support a best-in-class enterprise solution.

This presents an exciting opportunity for a skilled individual to contribute to our organization's success and create a substantial impact at AZ.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Work closely with the Team Lead/Business Analyst (BA) to provide support to individual delivery teams using a servant leadership style and leading by example
- Lead and facilitate the daily Scrum meetings with the individual Team Leads
- Management of the Agile Release Train (ART)
- Assist the team in meeting their delivery goals
- Facilitate Program Increment (PI) planning
- Support Iteration Execution
- Improve Flow and overall effectiveness & efficiency of ART
- Work with Team Lead/BA to build and maintain a highly effective team
- Facilitate conflict resolution, in partnership with Team Lead/BA
- Manage any backlogs, facilitate prioritization or removal of impediments to backlog delivery
- Provide Quality Assurance review on individual scrum team process and activities (i.e. sprint planning, stand ups, metrics, sprint deliverables, and entry and exit criteria)
- Assist and facilitate Stakeholder Reviews with SFO on a regular basis.

**Key Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information technology, data analytics, business, or related field
- At least 2 years of experience with implementing data & analytics solutions using Agile methodology
- Experience as a Scrum Master on an Agile implementation
- Scrum Master (or equivalent) Agile Certification
- Experience as a lead managing a complex systems delivery program
- Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple, dynamic priorities
- Effective communication skills (verbal, written, and listening)
- Demonstrated experience working in a high-paced, team-oriented environment (including international and cross-functional teams)
- Strong team player with ability to adjust to a dynamic working environment.

**Additional Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with US Strategic Field Operations to ensure success of key business processes and coordination on joint initiatives
- Develop innovative agile practices to create and sustain competitive advantage
- Monitors the external environment to stay up to date on agile capabilities, both within and outside of pharma, which