Role: Senior Scrum Master
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Domain: Pharma
HPC exp is highly preferred
Hybrid: 2 days a week from office
Pls look for seniour profiles (10+ years) and with good communication skills in English.
Role Description and Key Deliverables:
The role combines Senior Scrum Master responsibilities with platform-level oversight of operational planning and execution, delivery tooling, and reporting.
As a Scrum Master you will oversee two of our technical teams developing and maintaining HPC products and capabilities utilizing a mix of agile and other delivery models. The role also includes close collaboration with other Scrum Masters and project managers, when relevant, to make sure that the planning, execution, and reporting of the entire SCP portfolio is connected and transparent including the usage of tools, such as Jira and Confluence.
Key Responsibilities
- Planning, managing, and delivering solutions using agile methodology values, principles, and suitable practices including combining different delivery models as and when needed.
- Leading and facilitating Scrum and Kanban events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
- Monitoring progress and performance and facilitating team efforts to drive and implement continuous improvements.
- Supporting and enabling the Technical Area Leads and their teams with continuous management and refinement of the product/team backlog including defining and updating roadmaps.
- Ensuring proper collaboration within the team as well as with the other teams across the platform.
- Clearing obstacles and removing impediments including proactive risk and issue management and resolution.
- Coaching, training, mentoring, and supporting teams as well as individuals to follow agile and lean values, principles, and practices.
- Adopting Generative AI, AI-assisted delivery practices, and efficient ways of working.
- Identifying and delivering AI-enabled solutions and practices at team and platform level and ensuring they are properly implemented.
- Taking an active part in the overall SCP platform portfolio planning, delivery, and reporting activities, including delivery governance and oversight, and stakeholder communications.
Required Qualifications
- A degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant technical field.
- Strong/ Hands on Scrum Master experience, preferably in a similarly sized global business.
- Experience in traditional IT project management and hybrid delivery models.
- Expertise in Agile and Lean methodologies, with certification as a Scrum Master and experience in SAFe.
- Strong consulting and facilitation skills in leading technical teams in Agile frameworks adoption and improvement.
- Experience working with onshore and offshore personnel in a global organization across cultural boundaries.
- Experience with widely used Agile techniques and tools such as the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence). Experience in using Airfocus is desirable but not mandatory.
- Skills and experience in leveraging AI capabilities such as reusable prompts, AI workflows, AI agents, etc.
- Positive relationship building, motivational and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent listening and communication skills demonstrating situational awareness and conflict resolution.
- Knowledge and/or experience with Agile techniques such as User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Agile Games.