Project Manager

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our mission is to serve science, and help our customers make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

The Scientific Applications team develops technology strategy, architecture strategy, and serves as an implementation engine for new software product introductions and sustaining & support releases. Our technology portfolio enables outstanding scientific analysis, laboratory workflow, automation, and instrumentation that bring high value for our customers.

The Project Manager (PM or Scrum Master) will be responsible for leading our agile scrum process for project teams building a public cloud-based SaaS delivery platform and associated application services. The scrum master will also be responsible for coaching/mentoring the existing team on scrum methodology.

Responsibilities:
•    Managing the agile scrum processes used by the platform development organization.
•    Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
•    Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
•    Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
•    Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice
•    Support the development managers and project leads as necessary
•    Manage the corporate product release process for the platform
•    Adapting project plans, schedules, and resource assignments as required throughout projects to respond to emerging requirements and risks.
•    Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
•    Mentor other project teams on Scrum methodology

Qualifications & Experience:
•    Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience
•    Must be a Certified Scrum Master with a minimum of 6+ years project management and Scrum Master experience
•    Excellent team player and team builder
•    Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic and timeline sensitive work environment
•    Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
•    Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
•    Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
•    Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential
•    Ability to understand technical issues
•    Knowledge and/or experience with modern software development techniques, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Test driven development
 

Preferred Skills:

•    Background in life sciences domains relevant to Thermo Fisher
•    Certifications in Agile (Scrum, SAFe)