Senior Scrum Master

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Job Description

As a Senior Scrum Master, you'll be dealing with more complex situations and you’ll need to work across functional units, and other teams, and upper levels of management. You can expect to work on a wide variety of situations involving more complex scaling factors and variations. In this role you will identify allies and coordinate with other teams to improve delivery of value to the customer.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on consistently improving and problem-solving.  
• Solving unique and complex problems with a broad impact on the business.  
• Offer conceptual and innovative approaches to improve organizational agility.  
• Use expert agile knowledge to guide teams to utilize tools and practices for software development.  
• Effectively lead the scrum team to achieve higher levels of scrum maturity.  
• Guide, coach, and mentor more junior or aspiring Scrum Masters.  
• Act as a trusted representative for the team in committees, coordinate with IT colleagues from other teams, and SPOC for the business owner and other functions from the business.  
• Deliver ongoing training for the team, business owners, developers, and testers to consolidate and support the future development of agile methods in the organization. 
• Partner with Product Owner to refine and prioritize backlogs so that goals are clear and delivery flow is optimized
• Monitor sprint goals, track progress with Agile metrics (velocity, burndown, cycle time, throughput) and identify areas of improvement
• Drive cross‑team alignment, collaboration, and dependency management in multi‑team environments.
• Lead Knowledge management, lessons learned, and continuous improvement activities. 
• Communicate project, sprint, and delivery status to stakeholders, escalating risks and dependencies as needed.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Proven ability to continually build job knowledge and skills
• Proven track record of running multiple Agile teams and driving continuous improvement.

• Ability to adapt to a changing environment  
• Solid Team and Organizational coaching experience to realize benefits arising from Agile principles, self-management, empowerment, incremental deliveries, and inter-team cooperation
• Strong analytical skills to grasp complexities and identify relationships between problems, risks, issues, and solutions; ability to work with a team to reach a consensus  
• Demonstrable experience to apply Scrum principles, practices, and theory of Scrum, Kanban, Agile Development and Integration
• Has identifiable impact on results of the team on program or product levels  
• Minimum 7+ years of IT/SW delivery experience working in agile environment  
• Minimum 4+ years of Scrum Master experience leading small-mid-sized agile teams  
• Self-learning and continuous improvement mindset. 
• Effective conflict resolution skills. 
• Strong communication skills in a multidisciplinary/international environment. 
• Proficiency in written and spoken English (C1 level). 
• Ability to work independently and strong problem-solving skills. 

Preferred

• Has knowledge across several different agile disciplines as well as project management    
• Industry-recognized Agile and/or DevOps qualifications   
• Prior Pharmaceutical experience and/or exposure to highly regulated processes is preferred due to the given domain’s context.

What Takeda Can Offer You

At Takeda, you may build your career, while contributing to better people’s lives. Expect trust driven culture built around Integrity, Fairness, Honesty and Perseverance. Joining ICC will give you access to high end technology, training and colleagues who will support your growth.

Salary

As a motivated employee, you should be compensated appropriately. The minimum salary for this position is € 3850 per month (full time), but your final remuneration package may be higher depending on your qualifications and experience.

Benefits

Here are a few benefits our employees are enjoying at Takeda. To get a full picture of what we are offering, follow this link.

• Cafeteria
• Medical - High standard medical care
• Bridge days
• Summer Hours
• Multisport Card

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