Scrum Master
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Job Info

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Job Description

Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and ground-breaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you'll help solve some of the world's toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement tackle cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.

Location/Division Specific Information
Hillsboro, OR / Materials & Structural Analysis

How will you make an impact?

The Scrum Master has a self-propelling role, working as a member of one or more software development teams within the R&D organization to assist team members in becoming more productive and mature by implementing and supporting Scrum and SAFe principles. You will take ownership of promoting continuous improvement while meeting team goals efficiently and effectively. You will encourage the team to work together, speak up, and step forward, advocating a self-organizing and self-managing team. You will further actively coach your colleagues to improve efficiency, autonomy, and agility to react quickly to change.

What will you do?

• Mentor the team on SAFe/Scrum values, principles, and techniques.
• Facilitate and support all Scrum team-level ceremonies, such as sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint review/demo, and retrospectives.
• Act as a safeguard for the team, shielding them from outside distractions and interferences and removing obstacles that stand in the way of team productivity and performance.
• Facilitate the collection of accurate and transparent team-level metrics to be openly shared with anyone.
• Build transparency in processes and remove impediments, driving alignments across the team and improving its efficiency.

How will you get here?

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field

Experience, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• 2+ years as a Scrum Master and/or Project Management role; experience with SAFe is a plus.
• Experience with a multisite and multidisciplinary environment.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and leadership skills.
• Outstanding organization and time management skills.
• Hands-on experience with Atlassian JIRA & Confluence.
• Enjoy working in a multi-disciplinary technical environment to address sophisticated problems.

Competencies:

The successful candidate will possess the following combination of education and experience:

Functional

• Balance a good conceptual understanding with a pragmatic approach.
• Strong communicative skills verbally and in writing.
• Continuous quality & performance improvement.

Business

• Achieve results.
• Develop your own capabilities.

Collaboration

• Clear and open communication.
• Willingness to learn.

This position has not been approved for relocation assistance.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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