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The Position
Scrum Master
Diabetes is a pesky monster and that's putting it mildly. If you're serious about helping us face it head-on, join us!
Being a global leader in integrated Personalized Diabetes Management (iPDM), Roche collaborates with pioneers around the globe, including people with diabetes, caregivers, healthcare providers, and payers. We aim to transform and advance care provision and foster sustainable care structures. Under the brands Accu-Chek and mySugr, comprising glucose monitoring, insulin delivery systems, and digital solutions, we unite with our partners to create patient-centered value. By building and collaborating in an open ecosystem, connecting devices and digital solutions, and contextualizing relevant data points, we enable deeper insights and a better understanding of diabetes, leading to personalized and effective therapy adjustments. For a quick look at what we do, check out Roche code4life.
Your Opportunity
We are looking for a Scrum Master who shares our passion for Agile product development and is able to drive it forward. We are not only Agile on paper but we live and breathe it daily and are constantly optimizing our ways of working. Our aim is for our teams to work effectively together and to achieve the best possible outcome. That is why we are looking for a good listener and observer with the ability to ask powerful open-ended questions. Someone who is open to new experiments and has a drive for continuous learning as well as understands the importance of self-improvement and self-reflection. A skilled translator of Agile ways of working to teams and the company, capable of demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness and creating transparency on team health, progress, risks etc. We are looking for someone who can build high-performing teams.
Your up-coming mission:
- Be responsible for coaching up to two teams and empower them to become self-organized, performant teams. Maintain the healthy atmosphere and well-being within the teams.
- Help the teams to improve their ways of working, to be efficient, effective, and to work at a sustainable pace. Promote a culture that embraces change and values experimentation and innovation
- Help the teams and the company to increase collaboration, predictability, and transparency.
- Enable the teams to make quick and sustainable decisions, guide them in identifying and managing risks
- Organize and facilitate productive and effective meetings, agile ceremonies, and workshops
- Live a learning and open feedback culture. You mentor development team members on Agile, Lean, Kanban, SAFe, and Scrum principles and best practices
- Share your knowledge and actively participate in our Department, ARTs Scrum Master Community, etc
Who you are:
- Attained at least 3 years full-time experience as an Agile Coach/Scrum Master
- Attained at least 5 years of experience within product development
- Experience with various methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe
- SAFe 6.0 Certification
- Great written and verbal communication skills in English
- Interpersonal, problem-solving skills, compelling storytelling, presentation skills, and influencing abilities, the ability to recognize and aid the resolution of team and cross-team conflicts and impediments
- Tact, diplomacy, and cooperation skills as well as an attentive and empathic nature
Bonus Skills:
- Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum including training and participation in conferences, user groups, podcasts, etc
- Experience on a Team of Teams level
- Experience in guiding and mentoring other Scrum Masters by sharing your expertise and helping them to grow
- Technical background: experience in working in software development
- Knowledge of DevOps principles and best practices
- Experience in the pharmaceutical/ healthcare/ medical device industry and/or highly regulated environments
Here's what you can expect from us:
- Ambitious and passionate people building meaningful products.
- An innovative Agile working environment allowing for collaboration with smart people and knowledge sharing in cross-functional teams.
- We welcome people passionate about Agile and ways of working, so if you are interested in any thought leadership contributions (blogs, conferences) within the realm of the organization, we are happy to support you
Who we are
At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we've become one of the world's leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
