MSD Agile Coach 

Czechia, Central Bohemia 

298440069

Job Description

As a Senior Scrum Master / Agile Coach within the Central Data and Analytics 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

• contribute to building global agile delivery competency by formalizing and spreading the adoption of good practices across Central Data and Analytics teams

• contribute to sharing of Agile adoption through trainings and workshops about Agile principles, Scrum, Compliance, Product Management Product Delivery, etc.

• onboard the business into Agile specifics at the beginning of the project/product and recommend suitable framework/ ways of working

• contribute to 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

• lead and coach other Scrum masters, share best practices and build communities

• work across teams, groups and organizations

• actively participate in and move forward Agile Change and adoption in different organizations

• organize and drive PI planning

• support implementation of OKR framework

• drive activities towards upskilling enterprise Product Management community

• be accountable for the following planning activities - drives the QBR process and facilitates the OKR discussions

• be accountable for identifying delivery effectiveness improvements

  • accountable for organizing retrospectives with actionable outcomes

  • partner with the organization to set metrics with the team to display their future improvement and their as-is status.

  • accountable for visualizing the important metrics: using dashboard in practice, explaining its use to the team and building upon the data gathered to improve the team.

  • proactively searching for issues related to software delivery/quality/speed and raising it and solving it with the team.

  • proposes improvements of development process, documentation, collaboration to improve quality, effectiveness.

  • maps, analyses and improves the system(s) of value delivery across the organisation

We require hands-on Agile experience, especially:

• working in Scrum, Kanban or other 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

• facilitating different workshops

• creating great teams

• being a partner to Product Managers and supporting him through providing coaching, good practices & tools to maximize 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

• in using XP practices

• experience in scaling agile - SAFe

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

Furthermore, we will be happy if you know or have heard of one of these:

• Design thinking/Double diamond

• Lean UX, Interaction design, User research and usability testing

• Shape-up

• Continuous Discovery

• Project Management

• Working in highly regulated environments

• RICE prioritization

• Tools like Jira, Sharepoint, Confluence, VivaGoals, Mural

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

What we offer:

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g. even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral programme

• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card

• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, and Mall.cz discount programs

• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner

• Competitive salary, and many more

Current Contingent Workers apply

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