Sr. Scrum Master

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

McKesson complies with all applicable U.S. immigration laws and regulations. The Company does not provide employer support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment benefit for this role.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a fulltime basis without the need for employer support or sponsorship now or in the future. This includes having the legal right to work in the United States without the need for McKesson support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment authorization (e.g., H1B, O1, E3, H1B1, TN, F1 OPT, F1 STEM OPT, F1 CPT, etc.) now or in the future.

If you will require McKesson to provide immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future, you should not apply for this position. “

Current Need

Ontada is a leading oncology real world data and evidence, clinical education, and provider technology organization dedicated to transforming the fight against cancer. As part of McKesson Corporation, we support innovation for life sciences companies, empower community oncology providers, and advance patient care. Together with our partners, we improve outcomes for patients.

Role Overview

Reporting to an Agile Delivery Manager, the Sr. Scrum Master (P4) provides end-to-end delivery leadership for up to two scrum teams, or a complex team within Ontada’s Technology Solutions portfolio. This role operates with autonomy and accountability, owning delivery outcomes, influencing senior stakeholders, and driving cross-team alignment in a regulated, enterprise environment.

We are seeking experienced Scrum Master with hands-on expertise in SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban, who can operate effectively across product, engineering, UX, QA, and release management. The ideal candidate is proactive, execution focused, and comfortable driving continuous improvement while ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery.

The candidate will provide coaching and mentorship to the teams to build an agile mindset.

Core Accountabilities

Delivery Ownership and Accountability

• Own end-to-end delivery accountability across two teams or a complex team, ensuring predictable, high-quality outcomes.

• Establish and operate the delivery model, including sprint cadence, backlog readiness, planning, reviews, retrospectives, and release coordination.

• Facilitate all agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, daily stand‑ups, sprint planning, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.

• Coach the Product Owner and team to ensure work items have clear scope, sizing, dependencies, risks, and acceptance criteria.

• Define a sprint and release scope based on product prioritization and engineering capacity.

• Lead integrated planning across product, engineering, UX, QA, and release management.

• Lead pre‑release planning, including development, validation, and readiness of Release Scope Statements; assess capacity and communicate risks and dependencies.

• Manage release‑level capacity planning, estimation, sequencing, and delivery tracking.

• Proactively manage cross‑team dependencies, risks, and constraints impacting delivery timelines and scope; provide transparent milestone tracking.

• Drive delivery trade‑off decisions and escalation paths with clear options and recommendations.

• Ensure visibility and transparency through delivery dashboards and reporting.

• Maintain Jira hygiene, enforce Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, and ensure runbook updates are completed as required.

• Lead non-prod WAR/MIM rooms to resolve time-sensitive non-production issues as needed for Dev, QA or Staging environments in preparation for upcoming releases. 

• Maintain accurate PlainView (PV) update for the scrum team with the corresponding project and product attributes.

• Ensure weekly time-tracking is reported by the scrum team; facilitate review of the time tracking reports with the Leadership Team frequently.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a liaison between Product Ow