Scrum Master

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Company: Partners HealthCare(PHS)
Location: Somerville, MA 02145

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As a not-for-profit organization, Partners HealthCare is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community by leading innovation across our system. Founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare supports a complete continuum of care including community and specialty hospitals, a managed care organization, a physician network, community health centers, home care and other health-related entities. Several of our hospitals are teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School, and our system is a national leader in biomedical research.


We’re focused on a people-first culture for our system’s patients and our professional family. That’s why we provide our employees with more ways to achieve their potential. Partners HealthCare is committed to aligning our employees’ personal aspirations with projects that match their capabilities and creating a culture that empowers our managers to become trusted mentors. We support each member of our team to own their personal development—and we recognize success at every step.

Our employees use the Partners HealthCare values to govern decisions, actions and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients, Affordability, Accountability & Service Commitment, Decisiveness, Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion, Integrity & Respect, Learning, Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth, Teamwork & Collaboration.


General Overview

Through significant investments in Enterprise Data and Digital Health capabilities, Partners Healthcare Systems (PHS) is innovating and transforming the delivery of health care, research and discovery. The PHS Board and System-wide Executive Leadershp Team have made a multi-year substantial investment to build out core digital and data capabilities to support the achievement of Partners Mission to drive growth and innovation in inpatient, ambulatory, and digital care. We are just at the start of this journey and we are looking for talented individuals to join our team and help drive the realization of our strategy and ultimately be a part of transforming healthcare.

To achieve the expected outcomes from this strategy (improved patient care, quality of care, patient engagement, efficiency) data and analytic teams from across Partners are working together to build out the System-wide Data Ecosystem – leveraging current assets and building new integrated solutions to provide a holistic set of industry leading data and analytic capabilities for the entire system, supporting Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and real-time operationalization of insights. This effort is bringing together innovative teams from Data and Analytics, Research Analytics, Clinical Data Science, and Information Systems to collaboratively build the data and analytic ecosystem. To ensure success of this effort, Partners is standing up a new Data and Analytics Operating Model with a goal of driving a level of standardization for data and analytic operations across the teams involved.

As the scrum master, you are responsible for facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives; assisting product owners in translating project vision and business objectives into a backlog; tracking the team’s progress against prioritized work; removing impediments for the team; and identifying risks to the team and management. You ensure productivity by fostering team creativity, empowerment, and accountability, and you assist with work and prioritization, as well as the continuous improvement of DAO processes. In addition, the project scrum advances the role of Agile practices across the DAO by leading/participating in training and by coaching teams.


The best candidates share these traits with our team:

  • Creativity, initiative, curiosity, and flexibility – tempered by pragmatism, patience, and acute attention to detail
  • Love of (bordering on obsession with) Agile methodologies and culture
  • Strong leadership and analytical skills. You are the information hub for work our teams are doing, and if you don’t have the answer yourself, you know how to get it. You have a strong desire to help your team get better, you coach your team and you lead by example
  • Honesty, a friendly attitude, and a good sense of humor


Principal Duties and Responsibilities
  • Manage the overall health of the team – skills, capacity, efficiency, availability etc
  • Identify team impediments and drive resolution /escalation
  • Identify risks and develop actions to mitigate
  • Assist the Product Owner in the development and refinement of the backlog
  • Facilitate team rituals – eg Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives etc
  • Drive communication and clarity across the team and to stakeholders

Qualifications

  • Scrum Master certification
  • Bachelors degree, Masters prefered
  • Minimum of 5 years in leading technology implementations with cross functional business and technology experts
  • 3+ years experience managing cross-functional data and analytics projects in the Scrum framework


Skills/Abilities/Competencies
  • Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization (including senior management) on issues of strategy, risk, process, and ongoing operations
  • Capable of handling multiple deadlines and projects
  • Strong knowledge of and hands-on experience with other Agile project management methodologies
  • Healthcare experience preferred
  • Working knowledge of agile collaboration tools such as Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence), MS DevOps etc


EEO Statement

Partners HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer & by embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law.

Primary Location: MA-Somerville-PHS Assembly Row

Work Locations: PHS Assembly Row 399 Revolution Drive Somerville 02145

Job: Professional/Managerial

Organization: Partners HealthCare(PHS)

Schedule: Full-time

Standard Hours: 40

Shift: Day Job

Employee Status: Regular

Recruiting Department: PHS Enterprise Data & Digital Health

Job Posting: Nov 26, 2019