FREELANCE: Scrum Master - Pharma, Analytics & Data Science Specialist

Pharmaceutical, Analytics & Data Science Specialist

#15602 | 14 month+ contract | Switzerland

James Carrera at Umbilical has partnered with a Global Pharmaceutical client to source an experienced Scrum Master to support and coach an AGILE team to deliver tangible business value of defined data / analytics use cases within the R&D value chain.

Accountable for:

Support Product Owners & Development Teams to maximize the business value of products by ensuring the team lives agile values / principles. Following processes and practices for continuous development and delivery of products and solutions.

• Plan scrum implementations effectively, ensuring clear goals, scope, and product domain.
• Lead and coordinate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Backlog, Track Burn chart, Velocity, Retrospective charts etc
• Create clear and concise Product Backlog Items to maximize value.
• Support the development team in maintaining a steady delivery rate, protecting them from outside interruptions, and removing impediments to their progress.
• Actively promote Scrum within the organization, working with other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness/adoption of Scrum.
• Be a Lean / Agile leader – Help the team embrace agile core values & practices
• Own and facilitate team governance structure aligned to Agile methodology
• Liaise with stakeholders & product owner; clear obstacles, resolve issues, obtain resources
• Provide expertise in estimation and planning; create useful, reliable and practical plans for data analytics and experimental design.

Qualifications:

You will have In-depth experience in facilitating agile ceremonies and coaching teams/individuals on agile values, design thinking, customer value, product management, etc. Hands on experience in working with AGILE tools such as JIRA and Confluence, as well as;

• 8+ years professional experience in large, global organization
• 5+ years of experience in AGILE working as a certified Scrum Master in a global team
• Pharmaceutical industry and data science knowledge and experience
• Data Life Cycle Management and data wrangling including Data Ingestion, Unification, Anonymization, Search, Master & Meta Data Management and Data Governance.
• 3+ years of hands on experience on working on data management and analytics tools.
• Python, AWS, Microsoft Azure is highly preferred

For a confidential discussion, contact James Carrera at Umbilical

Reference ID: 15602

Contract length: 14 months

Job Types: Full-time, Contract