Job Title: Senior Consultant - Scrum Master
Location:TRIL GTC Chennai
GCL: D1

Job description:

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. The Science & Enabling Units IT is AZ’s global IT capability function supporting key business areas operating out of sites across the US, UK, Sweden, India & Mexico.

We are looking for an experienced scrum master who should have excellent knowledge of the scrum framework, with all its artifacts and techniques.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Agile coaching and supporting the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Setting up sprints in JIRA/Confluence with necessary Sprint planning, Backlog prioritisation and Capacity forecasting
• Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting
• Coordinating and organising Show & Tells, Velocity reviews and other Scrum related meetings.
• Creating Resource burn down charts and other reporting artefacts
• Resolving sprint blockers and managing resource allocation during sprints delivery from multiple teams
• Updating JIRA with progress and structuring JIRA dashboards
• Acts as a change agent that increases the productivity of the team

Required skills:

• 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.
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
• Experience as a team lead.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability

Desired skills:

• Domain knowledge (processes & data): Pharma R&D
• Advanced Jira knowledge and usage
• Confluence usage
• Scrum Master certification

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
 

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.