Job Description Summary

The Sr Scrum Master partners with the Product Owner and cross-functional team to launch initiatives, communicate, and solve problems. The Sr Scrum Master is certified in Agile methodology and scrum; is responsible for teaching teams agile ways of working and leading all scrum ceremonies. The Sr Scrum Master responsibilities include managing timelines, resolving problems and coaching team members on Agile methodologies. The role creates create self-organizing teams that are flexible and fully productive during sprints. The Sr Scrum Master plans and tracks multiple scrum deliverables and guides teams to successful outcomes. They ensure the scrum team adheres to scrum frameworks, principles and best practices with an Agile practitioner mindset. They may manage high visibility, high-impact projects, or multiple smaller projects.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

Summary of Position

The Sr Scrum Master partners with the Product Owner and cross functional team to launch initiatives,  communicate and solve problems. The Sr Scrum Master is certified in Agile methodology and scrum;  is responsible for teaching teams agile ways of working and leading all scrum ceremonies.  The Sr Scrum Master responsibilities include managing timelines, resolving problems and coaching team members on Agile methodologies. The role creates create self-organizing teams that are flexible and fully productive during sprints.   The Sr Scrum Master plans and tracks multiple scrum deliverables and guides teams to successful outcomes.   They ensure the scrum team adheres to scrum frameworks, principles and best practices with an Agile practitioner mindset.    They may manage high visibility, high impact projects or multiple smaller projects.  

Responsibilities 

Agile project leadership: 

• Leads team on key design decisions, resource allocation, project planning activities, risk assessment, design and technical reviews, completion of results and resolution of problems. Drive team to project completion ensuring that we are creating best-in-class product and service experiences. ​​​​​​​

• Develop detailed program/project execution plan, and handle all implementation processes including projects financials, progress tracking, metrics, supervising change control process, testing, release to production and on-time delivery within budget constraints. 

• Provide overall communications to all levels of the organization to continually maintain project visibility. 

• Build streamlined and complete status reporting to support project/program discussions at Steering Committee and Sponsor level. 

• Guide the DET on how to use scrum & agile practices and methodologies; Promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and to help teams and individuals transitioning from waterfall to Agile. 

• Lead daily scrum, sprint review, and planning meetings in a way that ensures full team engagement.

• Support Product Owner on release planning; facilitate QA and testing meetings before product/site launches.