Job Description

Job title: Senior Scrum Master/ Agile Coach (For AI Area)

• Opportunity to be a part of a HyerAutomation & Gen AI team in Singapore!
• Based in Singapore, the regional hub for Asia Pacific (AP) and top-ranked biopharmaceutical company on The Straits Times and Statista\xe2\x80\x99s list of Best Employers in Singapore for four consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) as well as Great Place to Work-Certified\xe2\x84\xa2 company.
• Join the premier biopharmaceutical company that has been in Singapore for more than 25 years and in AP for over 60 years.

Primary Responsibilities

As a Senior Scrum Master/ Agile Coach within the HyperAutomation & Gen AI team, you will:

• Work closely with the teams
• Be a servant leader and help our software development teams in becoming self-organized
• Coach both individuals and teams on their Agile journey
• Be part of the HAI agile team at our company and work on common goals together
• Contribute to sharing of Agile adoption through trainings and workshops about Agile principles, Scrum, Compliance, Product Delivery, etc.
• Onboard the business into Agile specifics at the beginning of the project/product
• Contribute transforming a project-centric culture into a product-oriented one
• Get mentoring from your colleagues
• Join a team of like-minded passionate professionals in a flexible multi-cultural environment
• Coach Scrum masters
• Work across teams, groups, and organizations
• Actively participate in and move forward Agile Change and adoption in different organizations

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in computer science, information systems or equivalent job experience

Required Experience and Skills:

• Hands-on Agile experience, especially:
• Working in Scrum, Kanban or another Agile framework
• Acting as a Scrum Master (or similar coach) role with focus on continuous improvement of cross-functional team(s)
• Collecting and providing visibility into team\'s performance data
• Forming the feature teams from component teams
• Creating great teams
• Being a partner to Product Owner and supporting him through providing coaching, good practices & tools to maximise the value delivered
• Delivering products end-to-end through several releases using principles of continuous integration, continuous delivery and quality automation
• Understanding of MVP and build measure learn concept and principles
• Delivering Agile trainings to different audience even outside of IT
• Working with stakeholders outside of the development team
• Experience in using XP practices
• Hands-on Change management and leadership experience, especially:
• Understanding change management and modern approaches to change
• Understanding different organizational structures and their specifics
• Setting up complex delivery setups (multiple products vs. multiple teams vs. multiple regions vs. multiple cultures)
• Leading others through coaching and mentoring
• Leveraging agility in various parts of the organization (even outside of IT)
• Working with senior management and in hierarchical environment
• Ability and willingness to work across organizational boundaries and to both lead and enable others to lead agile initiatives
• Desire to search ways how to continuously improve in areas such as time to market, lead & cycle times, etc.

Good to have skills:

• Design thinking/Double diamond
• Lean UX, Interaction design, User research and usability testing
• Continuous Discovery
• Objective & Key Results
• Project Management
• Working in highly regulated environments

You will learn:

• How to help multi-billion pharma enterprise adopt new ways of working
• How pharma companies work and operate
• About opportunities to create significant value through digital technology in healthcare

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another\xe2\x80\x99s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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Employee Status: Regular

Relocation: Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements: 10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Shift:

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Required Skills: Capability Development, Change Management, Classroom Delivery, Consulting, Learning Design, Methodical Approach, Organizational Structures, Teaching

Preferred Skills: Change Management, Coaching, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Development, Continuous Integrations, Delivery Management, HR Project Management, IT Business Management, IT Development, IT Executive Management, IT Infrastructure Management, IT Infrastructure Operations, IT Performance Management, IT Project Implementation, IT Project Lifecycle, IT Service Delivery, IT Service Management (ITIL), Lean UX, Project Planning, Project Resource Management, SAP Project Management, Software Development Life Cycle Models, Stakeholder Engagement

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