Job Description

Job Title: Senior Consultant - Scrum MasterCareer Level - D2Introduction to Role:
Join our Data Discovery and Access team at AstraZeneca as a Scrum Master. This full-time role, based at our GITC site in Chennai, offers the opportunity to lead the day-to-day management of Agile delivery, ceremonies, and reporting. You will be instrumental in ensuring the clarity & accuracy of Agile metrics, excellence of ceremonies, consistent test-driven development, and effective collaboration with the Product Owners, Business Analyst, Project Manager and Tech Lead.Accountabilities:
As a Scrum Master, you will provide leadership throughout our software development lifecycle, from the initial development of a technical design based on a blueprint, right through to hypercare. Your passion for growing developers into their best skillset and delivering well-engineered data and analytics solutions will be key to your success in this role.Essential Skills/Experience:
- Excellent Jira skills including the ability to rapidly generate JQL on-the-fly
- Fantastic written & spoken English, interpersonal skills, and a collaborative approach to delivery
- An enthusiasm for great documentation; significant experience in documenting via Confluence
- Exposure to Airfocus, Miro, Workboard a plus
- Experience of Agile practices, preferably having been part of an Agile team for several years
- Scrum master certification- Experience as a developer and/or tester and/or Business Analyst
- Hands-on experience as a scrum master
- Desire to understand the business requirements, team structure, ways of working and collaborate across the organization
- Willingness to work in an agile and flexible environment
- 10+ years of experience in the IT industryWhen 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.At AstraZeneca, we are committed to disrupting an industry and changing lives. Our work has a direct impact on patients, transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth.Are you ready to join a team with the backing and investment to win? You\'ll be working with cutting-edge technology. This marriage between our purposeful work and the use of high-tech platforms is what sets us apart. Lead the way in digital healthcare. From exploring data and AI, to working in the cloud on new technologies. Join a team at the forefront. Help shape and define the technologies of the future, with the backing you need from across the business.Ready to make an impact? Apply now!Date Posted 19-Jul-2024Closing Date 25-Jul-2024AstraZeneca 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.

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