Job Summary
Amgen is seeking a scrum master with passion for leading the innovation of financial planning and analysis products on Amgen’s Anaplan platform. The scrum master is a foundational role on a new Agile Product Team being formed to deploy groundbreaking solutions for global professionals in Finance, Research and Development, and Global Commercial Operations. Come join our team and start something new we can be proud of!
The Scrum Master will report to the Senior Manager Information Systems and will work out of Amgen’s Capability Center in Tampa, FL. At Amgen, our mission is simple: to serve patients. Our new Tampa Capability Center provides essential services that enable us to better pursue this mission. This state-of-the-art center serves as a base for finance, information systems, and human resources professionals to make a meaningful impact at one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies.
Responsibilities of this role include:
- Coordinates and facilitates scrum team ceremonies including daily stand-ups, backlog grooming sessions, sprint planning and retrospectives
- Provides mentoring on scrum methodology processes to ensure the team continues to evolve into a self-managing high performing team
- Takes accountability for the health of the team and drives for continuous improvement
- Helps the team break down requests into manageable stories and facilitates discussions on assigning story points
- Reports and monitors progress of team activity during sprints to ensure sprint goals and objectives are met
- Manages, resolves or calls out impediments as raised by individual team members and tracks team velocity
- Represents the team during scrum of scrum meetings to ensure minimal distraction from outside influences while monitoring progress of external dependencies
- Partners with product owners to set shared expectations with effort required from engineers across all user stories in each sprint
- Where appropriate, participates in discussions and provides technical mentorship or facilitates and raises discussion to relevant technology teams
- Schedules and facilitates product release planning activities including, where appropriate, approvals and communications
- Maintains sprint documentation, monitoring and reporting
Basic Qualifications
Doctorate degree
OR
Master’s degree and 2 years of Information Systems experience
OR
Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of Information Systems experience
OR
Associate’s degree and 10 years of Information Systems experience
OR
High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Information Systems experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Atlassian products such as Jira and Confluence
- Familiar with enterprise platforms like Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, MuleSoft, Databricks, etc.
- Skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, and conflict resolution
- Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
- Ability to work in a team environment, effectively interacting with others and mentoring junior team members in geographically disbursed model
- Experience with Anaplan implementations a plus
We understand that to successfully sustain and grow as a global enterprise and deliver for patients — we must ensure a diverse and inclusive work environment.
Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Join Us
If you’re seeking a career where you can truly make a difference in the lives of others, a career where you can work at the absolute forefront of biotechnology with the top minds in the field, you’ll find it at Amgen.
Amgen, a biotechnology pioneer, discovers, develops and delivers innovative human therapeutics. Our medicines have helped millions of patients in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses.
As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other but compete intensely to win. Together, we live the Amgen values as we continue advancing science to serve patients.
Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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