Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)Environmental Conditions
OfficeJob Description
Role Summary: Enterprise-focused Scrum Master role supporting multiple Agile teams, cross-team coordination, delivery governance, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement in complex product and engineering environments.
Job Description
- We are looking for a highly experienced Scrum Master with 6-10 years of overall experience and strong expertise in guiding multiple Agile teams in parallel.
- This role is responsible for enabling disciplined Agile execution, coaching teams and leaders, removing impediments, managing dependencies, and improving predictability across a multi-team delivery landscape.
- The ideal candidate brings servant leadership, strong facilitation skills, executive presence, and practical experience working with Product Owners, Engineering, Program leadership, and business stakeholders in matrixed enterprise settings.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as Scrum Master for multiple Scrum teams and ensure effective adoption of Scrum and Agile practices.
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and cross-team synchronization forums.
- Drive proactive management of risks, issues, impediments, and dependencies across teams and escalate where needed.
- Coach Product Owners, team members, and stakeholders on backlog readiness, prioritization hygiene, estimation, team accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Track and communicate key delivery metrics such as velocity, sprint predictability, burndown, cycle time, dependency risk, and team health indicators.
- Support release planning, milestone tracking, and delivery governance for complex, multi-team initiatives.
- Enable teams to improve collaboration, self-organization, quality, and delivery maturity while aligning execution to business outcomes.
Required Skills
- 6-10 years of overall experience with significant recent experience as a Scrum Master in Agile software, digital, data, or platform delivery environments.
- Proven experience handling multiple Scrum teams simultaneously, including cross-team planning, dependency management, and execution oversight.
- Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Agile metrics, release planning, and delivery management practices.
- Certification such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, or equivalent Agile credential.
- Hands-on experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, or similar Agile lifecycle management tools.
- Strong communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, and executive reporting skills.
- Ability to identify root causes, remove blockers, drive actions to closure, and maintain delivery momentum in fast-paced environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
Desired Skills
- Certification such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, or equivalent Agile credential.
- Experience supporting scaled Agile programs, PI planning, enterprise governance, or transformation initiatives.
- Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and quality engineering practices.
- Experience working with distributed teams, vendor partners, and senior business leadership.
- Ability to coach beyond team-level ceremonies and help improve organizational Agile maturity and delivery discipline.
Skills Required
- 6-10 years overall experience with significant recent experience as a Scrum Master in software, digital, data, or platform delivery environments
- Proven experience handling multiple Scrum teams simultaneously, including cross-team planning and dependency management
- Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Agile metrics, release planning, and delivery management practices
- Certification such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist, or equivalent Agile credential
- Hands-on experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, or similar Agile lifecycle management tools
- Strong communication, facilitation, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, and executive reporting skills
- Ability to identify root causes, remove blockers, drive actions to closure, and maintain delivery momentum
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field
- Experience supporting scaled Agile programs, PI planning, enterprise governance, or transformation initiatives
- Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and quality engineering practices
- Experience working with distributed teams, vendor partners, and senior business leadership
- Ability to coach beyond team-level ceremonies and improve organizational Agile maturity
Thermo Fisher Scientific Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thermo Fisher Scientific and has not been reviewed or approved by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
-
Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a strong company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan that add meaningful long‑term value. Feedback suggests these features stand out among core financial benefits even when base pay feels average.
-
Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple national medical options alongside dental and vision, with company‑paid life and disability coverage. This breadth is considered a solid foundation even if some costs may not be the lowest among peers.
-
Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, backup care, adoption assistance, and specialized family resources are available. Feedback suggests these supports are a notable plus for colleagues managing family and caregiving needs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Insights
What We Do
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
Gallery
