Overview: Tekwissen Group, is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, headquartered in Leverkusen, and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.
Job Title: Program Manager (Expert)-R&D Project Mgmt-R&D-PH Location: San Francisco, CA / Seattle, WA Duration: 6 Months Job Type: Contract Work Type: Remote Job Description:
- The Climate Corporation is looking for an experienced Program Manager who can play the role of a Senior Scrum Master for multiple Agile teams within a SAFe environment.
- We're looking for someone who has a strong leadership mindset in both the SAFe process as well as technically to not only support Product and Engineering, but challenge as necessary.
- This role will include hands-on scrum master support as well as agile coaching as agile teams continue to mature in our newly launched SAFe transformation.
- Being a self-starter and using a friendly, flexible approach will help with the success of this role.
What You Will Do:
- Lead multiple Agile teams within an Agile Release Train (ART)
- Provide Agile coaching to those in the Agile teams (Product, Engineering) within the various Scrum /SAFe activities
- Partner with the Product Owner and Engineering teams for backlog refinement & prioritization of work for team backlogs
- Play an active role in PI Planning supporting multiple agile teams
- Support Release Train Engineer (RTE) w/in the ART, attending Scrum of Scrums
- Understanding / Analysis of Sprint Metrics to help facilitate team effectiveness, efficiency, maturity
- Support/Participate in RTE/Scrum Master Community of Practice (CoP)
- Facilitate unblocking impediments and tracking/managing risks, dependencies for agile teams
- Be able to drive and explain your team's analysis to executives
- Be comfortable operating with uncertainty, know how to create order from chaos
- Build credibility and buy-in from teams without authority
Basic Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree or equivalent industry experience
- 8+ years of Program Management experience in an agile software development, Software as a Service, and/or Platform as a Service
- Experience in leading multiple agile teams as a senior scrum master
- Experience with Microsoft SharePoint, Miro, Jira, Planview
Preferred Qualifications:
- SAFe 5.0 for Lean Enterprises certification/experience
- Excellent balance of interpersonal, organizational, and technical skills
- Ability to evangelize and represent a technical community
- Proven experience in leading globally distributed teams
- Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment
- SAFe Agile experience/training, Agile coach, Scrum Master experience/training/certification
- Accountable for establishing Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide accountable for the Scrum Team's effectiveness serves the Scrum Team in several ways, including:
- Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done;
- Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team's progress
- Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox.
- Run and/or coach/teach Eng teams on Scrum activities - Daily Scrum, Retrospective, Demos, and Sprint Reviews
- Ability to communicate business needs to technical people and to communicate and simplify complex technical information for non-technical people
- Proven ability to negotiate and problem solve, navigating complex situations and ambiguity
- Business Analytics & Reporting skills needed for data driven decisions and team/project reporting
- Solid interpersonal skills - building trust and facilitating collaboration across all teams
- Strong relationship building/partnering skills with global cross functional teams and the ability to work with varying levels of individual contributors and management.
- Experience managing and delivering end user expectations
- Ability to motivate, inspire, and influence the team to deliver stellar products and quality
- Energetic self-starter who's passionate about professional integrity and excellence while working with a positive, enthusiastic attitude
- Able to work independently with minimal supervision and manage multiple tasks, prioritizing time appropriately
- Ability to influence peers and managers while dealing with ambiguity create order out of chaos
- Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
- Lead and adapt to change
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.