At Seven Bridges we are building the most advanced cloud computing platform for genomics data analysis. Our team and product enable scientists to analyze genomic data faster and more efficiently than ever, so they can focus on making progress in genomics and personalized medicine. Through our collaboration with the largest genomics projects, we connect the world’s biomedical information to enable the most efficient analysis at scale. We are a global company with offices in the US, London, Serbia and more. We are roughly 300 employees and rapidly growing!
Seven Bridges is a remote friendly company with the offices in Belgrade and Novi Sad.
Position Summary:
A Senior Scrum Master will be leading up to 2 Scrum Teams. While in growth phases a Senior scrum master may be asked to cover a third team during the hiring phase. Core responsibilities will be enabling teams through facilitation of scrum ceremonies as a true servant leader and to ensure that goals, scope, and budget are met by the team and potentially cross teamwork.
This person will improve team performance by identifying resolution of team impediments while being a change agent with continuous improvement items. You will also help to establish an environment where the team can be effective, addressing any team dynamics.
This role has wide-ranging partnerships, working day-to-day with product managers, epic owners. There will also be close collaboration with other teams, like Architecture, Security, and DevOps teams. You will also be a mentor to other Scrum Masters.
Do you have what it takes?
- Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least five years for a Scrum team
- At least 2 years of work experience in the IT industry
- Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc)
- Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
- Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile space: XP, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, etc
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, BDD, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
- Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs,etc)
- Previous experience as a collaborative leader
- Proactively organize opportunities for colleagues to learn more about Agile. Help setup Guilds for cross-team skill development and knowledge sharing. Encouraging and directing individuals to share relevant knowledge through appropriate activities
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills
- Familiar with the concepts of professional coaching, knows how to engages a person in a creative process to discover their own insights and take inspired action without being attached to a specific outcome
What is in Seven Bridges’ DNA?
Our Mission: Seven Bridges will significantly decrease the time, cost and risk to bring new precision medicine products to market by maximizing the productivity of bio pharma/tech research and development organizations in; formulation, productization, identification, success and optimization.
Our Values: These represent who we are and what we stand for. We pride ourselves on being true to our values in everything we do. Building successful partnerships, acting with a sense of urgency, making scientists happy, acting with integrity, treating data with respect, committed to excellence and working together
Our team and culture: With backgrounds in genomics, computer science and computational biology to sales and finance our talented team is passionate about building solutions to the most challenging problems of precision medicine. We believe that teamwork makes the dream work! By acting with empathy, supporting each other and learning from our challenges we exemplify commitment to quality results faster.
Our perks: We offer challenging career opportunities, competitive benefits and an environment that recognizes and rewards performance.
Enough about us, let’s talk about you!
If you have gotten this far and are looking for the right balance of teamwork, challenge, fun and would like to help push genomics forward please send us your resume and a cover letter. If your qualifications fit the profile we are looking for we will contact you in a timely manner.