Overview

Werfen

Werfen, founded in 1966, is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and distributor of specialized diagnostic instruments, related reagents, automation workcells, and data management solutions for use primarily in hospitals and independent clinical laboratories. The Company’s business lines include Hemostasis, Acute Care, and Autoimmunity diagnostics, as well as Original Equipment Manufacturing. Our success comes from a specific focus in these rapidly evolving diagnostic areas, our commitment to customers, and our dedication to innovation and quality. We’re passionate about providing healthcare professionals the most valuable and complete solutions to improve hospital efficiency and enhance patient care.

Our North American Commercial Operations, as well as our Headquarters and Technology Center for Hemostasis and Acute Care Diagnostics, are based in Bedford, MA. Our Headquarters and Technology Center for Autoimmunity Diagnostics is based in San Diego, CA. Additionally, our Technology Center for Hemostasis and Blood Gas Reagents is in Orangeburg, NY, and our Technology Center for Whole Blood Hemostasis is in San Diego, CA.

Position Summary:

The Senior Scrum Master is a servant leader and coach for multiple Agile Product Teams. The ideal candidate will need to bring leadership skills, vision, communication skills, passion and understanding of medical device software development. He/she helps educate the teams in Scrum and, where relevant, Agile at scale practices, ensuring that the agreed Agile process is being followed. He/she also helps remove impediments and fosters an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. This position will report directly into theinto the Chief Scrum Master.

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

Essential Functions:

• Ensure that Agile principles are being implemented, coach individual team members to ensure each are following SCRUM roles, and provide regular visibility into the backlog, progress being made, and where the team are going
• Facilitate product release plan creation and its execution with cross-functional team consisting of engineering, quality, risk manager, medical, regulatory, human factors, and legal
• Drives the delivery of software medical device products and corresponding design control documentation
• Support internal and external quality audits for the ongoing and launched products
• Facilitates Agile ceremonies throughout each sprint (daily standup, sprint planning, sprint demos, retrospectives, and backlog refinements)
• Helps the Agile teams to work in an autonomous way and continuous improvement spirit, to identify and formalize obstacles and fix them
• Helps the Product Owner in his/her efforts to manage the backlog and guide the teams while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope
• Communicates with management and outside stakeholders; helps protect the team from uncontrolled expansion of work
• Collaborates in cross-team initiatives and organizes training sessions to promote and master agility practices
• Facilitates all conversations and sessions with the larger group around Epic and/or Initiative discovery, priorities, requirements, dependencies, inter-team cooperation
• Helps the teams embrace Agile at scale process led by the Release Train Engineer (RTE) and implement practices
• Collaborates with other Scrum Masters and Product Owners in activities such as developing the list of components and resources needed in common for all teams throughout the project
• Leverages Agile tracker tools (like Jira)

Networking/Key Relationships:

• He/she will interface on a regular basis with groups across the organization as needed (within R&D and with Clinical SW).

Qualifications

Minimum Knowledge & Experience Required for the Position:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree
• 8 years in Agile software development for Medical Devices, including 3-5 years in successful Scrum Master
• Certified Scrum Master
• Certified as a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) highly desired
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated initiative and analytical thinking style, able to comprehend complex problems and good problems solving skills
• Experience in Software Medical Devices development that follows ISO 13485, IEC 62304 / 21 CFR Part 820.30 highly desired

Skills & Capabilities:

• Project Management
• Lead & Agile Practices
• Software Medical Device Development (Design Controls, ISO 13485, IEC 62304, 21 Code of Federal Regulations Part 820.30)
• Compliance of Quality Management Systems
• Interpersonal Communication
• Transverse Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Change Management
• Additional soft skills: Servant leadership mindset, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

Travel Requirements:

• None

If you are interested in constantly learning and being challenged on a daily basis, we encourage you to submit your resume or CV.

Werfen appreciates and values diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/D/V.

We operate directly in over 30 countries, and in more than 100 territories through distributors. Annual revenue is approximately $2 billion and more than 5,000 employees around the world comprise our Werfen team.

www.werfen.com