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Job Number: 4540

External Description: A career at Merck is an ongoing journey of discovery: our 52,000 people are shaping how the world lives, works and plays through next generation advancements in healthcare, life science and performance materials. For 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others.

Technical Agile Coach / Scrum Coach Job Description

  • Expert knowledge of the practices, concepts and procedures related to coaching and facilitating development teams in the adoption and practice of agile principles (supported by Organization)
  • Continuous coaching and assisting ScrumTeams in learning the agile principles and practices
  • Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing
  • Provide instruction and training to software development teams in the area of agile software principles
  • Facilitate various Agile ceremonies and help teams to develop various Agile artifacts like Sprint planning, Backlog refinement, Demos etc.
  • Ensure cross-teams coordination and dependency handling
  • Coach and mentor other scrum masters
  • Hands-on experience as a Team Coach, preferably with 2+ teams
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Experience in teaching and/or mentoring multiple teams
  • Experience communicating and removing impediments across an organization
  • Proven leadership skills, specifically leading by example (servant leader)
  • Deep understanding of all software lifecycle development disciplines - Project Management, Requirements Management, Analysis & Design, Quality Assurance (Testing), Implementation, Deployment, Configuration & Change Management


Coaching skills
  • Agile Champion
  • Act as an agile champion across the program, including both business and IT
  • Experience in creating servant leaders and helping in growing maturity in agile delivery
  • Facilitate SAFe ceremonies and processes
  • Act in coaching capacity to teach mentor, and coach teams, ARTs and Product Owners
  • Servant leader and Impediment remover
  • Coach and Guide Product Management teams
    • In using Agile / Scrum practices
    • in logical slicing of Capabilities, Features and User stories
    • In maintaining Backlog in the Tool
  • Coach and Guide Scrum Masters
    • In using Agile / Scrum practices
    • in being servant leaders and helping the teams by reducing impediments
    • in improving capacity planning, velocity improvements, retrospectives organizing and tracking till they are closed
    • in building trust within the teams
  • Coach ScrumMasters to be Agile champions and be servant leaders


Soft skills:
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Solid interpersonal skills;
  • Able to effectively organize & communicate with cross-functional teams
  • Strong analytical skills


Required Qualifications:
  • 8+ years of IT experience
  • 4+ years of Agile Project Management experience - full time as ScrumMaster
  • SAFe 4.0 Certification (Agilist or RTE) is a must
  • Agile Certifications (CSM, CSP) is a must
  • 3+ years of experience with Agile Planning Tools like Rally, JIRA
  • Experience in requirements tracking tool like JAMA


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Familiarity with various Agile frameworks, practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices
  • Understanding of the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
  • Participation in industry agile communities
  • Life Science domain experience
  • Was a developer in the past life with hands-on experience in Object oriented programming languages preferably JAVA (Springboot) or .NET or Operational Technologies like PLC, SCADA


Location: Hyderabad, India

What we offer: With us, there are always opportunities to break new ground. We empower you to fulfil your ambitions, and our diverse businesses offer various career moves to seek new horizons. We trust you with responsibility early on and support you to draw your own career map that is responsive to your aspirations and priorities in life. Join us and bring your curiosity to life!

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Job Number: 180943

Community / Marketing Title: Scrum Coach

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