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Job Description

Senior Scrum Master

The Future Begins Here

At Takeda, we are creating a future-ready organization that uses data and digital to meet the needs of patients, our people, and the planet. We need your help to make this happen. Join our new Innovation Capability Center (ICC) in Bratislava, Slovakia.

In this role at our state-of-the-art center, you will have the opportunity to grow your skills and create solutions that will benefit patients around the world. Become the heart of our internal innovation engine.

At Takeda we unite in diversity

Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive workplace, where individuals are recognized for the diverse backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continually improving workplace experience and accessibility for everyone, and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our Team.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Scrum Master you'll be dealing with more complex situations and you’ll need to work across functional units, and other teams, and upper levels of management. You can expect to work on a wide variety of situations involving more complex scaling factors and variations.  
In this role you will ensure the effective implementation of Agile principles and practices at the program level, promoting collaboration across multiple teams, and ensuring the successful delivery of value to customers. 

Responsibilities  

Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on consistently improving and problem-solving. 

Solving unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business. 

Offer conceptual and innovative approaches to improve the organizational agility. 

Use expert agile knowledge to guide teams to utilize tools and practices for software development. 

Effectively lead the scrum team to achieve higher levels of scrum maturity. 

Guide, coach, and mentor more junior or aspiring Scrum Masters. 

Act as a trusted representative for the team in committees, coordinate with IT colleagues from other teams, and are SPOC for the product owner and release manager or other functions from the business. 

Deliver ongoing training for the team, product owners, developers, and testers to consolidate and support the future development of agile methods in the organization. 

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Skills and Requirements

Minimum 4 years of Scrum Master experience leading small-mid-sized agile teams 

Minimum 5 years of IT/SW delivery experience working in agile environment 

Proficiency in English (both spoken and written)

Has identifiable impact on results of the team and program or product levels 

Demonstrable experience to apply Scrum principles, practices, and theory of Scrum, Kanban, Agile Development and Integration 

Strong analytical skills to grasp complexities and identify relationships between problems, risks, issues, and solutions; ability to work with a team to reach a consensus 

Solid Team and Organizational coaching experience to realize benefits arising from Agile Principles, self-management, empowerment, incremental deliveries, and inter-team cooperation 

Ability to adapt to a changing environment 

Proven ability to continually build job knowledge & skills 

Preferred 

Has knowledge across several different agile disciplines  

Industry-recognized Agile, Scaled Agile and / or DevOps Qualifications  

Preferred University Technical Degree (or equivalent experience) 

Experience with AWS/Cloud, including a strong understanding of the technologies, though not necessarily at a technical or developer level

What Takeda Can Offer You

At Takeda, you may build your career, while contributing to better people’s lives. Expect trust driven culture built around Integrity, Fairness, Honesty and Perseverance. Joining ICC will give you access to high end technology, training and colleagues who will support your growth.

Salary

As a motivated employee, you should be compensated appropriately. The minimum salary for this position is €3800 per month (full time), but your final remuneration package may be higher depending on your qualifications and experience.

Benefits

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LocationsSVK - Bratislava – Svatoplukova

Worker TypeEmployee

Worker Sub-TypeRegular

Time TypeFull time