Specialist Scrum Master
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Engineering
Job Description
Scrum Master – Disease Biology
ABOUT AMGEN
Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases and make people’s lives easier, fuller, and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. With over 40 years of leadership in biotechnology, Amgen continues to push boundaries by integrating cutting-edge technology with human genetic and biological data.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Role Overview
The Scrum Master – Disease Biology is a delivery leader and agile coach responsible for driving execution across Disease Biology programs spanning Omics, Multi-Omics, Semantic Graph platforms, and biological research workflows.
This role bridges scientific requirements, product strategy, and engineering delivery, enabling teams to deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that accelerate biological insights and therapeutic discovery.
The Scrum Master facilitates Agile ceremonies, ensures alignment to program objectives, manages dependencies across teams, and fosters continuous improvement within a complex, data-intensive research ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
1. Scrum Master / Agile Delivery
Lead end-to-end Agile delivery across Disease Biology teams using Scrum and SAFe practices, ensuring disciplined execution against sprint, PI, and program commitments.
Facilitate Agile and SAFe ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, demos, PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Inspect & Adapt sessions.
Track and communicate delivery progress, risks, dependencies, blockers, and metrics such as velocity, burndown, and cycle time to support transparency and predictability.
Coordinate across Agile Release Trains, data engineering, platform, scientific, support, and operations teams to manage dependencies, resolve delivery blockers, and support issue resolution for released capabilities.
Coach teams toward higher levels of Agile maturity, standardize Agile practices across Disease Biology programs, and foster a culture of collaboration, experimentation, innovation, and continuous improvement.
2. Business Analysis / Scientific Product Delivery
Partner with Disease Biology scientists, product owners, product management, solution management, engineering, and platform teams to elicit, refine, and prioritize scientific, technical, and business requirements.
Translate scientific and technical needs into structured user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog priorities, and traceability between scientific objectives, business value, research priorities, and delivered solutions.
Drive alignment between scientific workflows, including wet lab and computational biology, data platforms, engineering execution, and product roadmaps.
Enable delivery of data and analytics solutions across omics pipelines, multi-modal datasets, semantic graph-based knowledge systems, and scalable biological data platforms.
Support insights-driven scientific use cases, including target discovery, biomarker analysis, disease modeling, and integration of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and clinical datasets.
Serve as a bridge between scientific stakeholders, product teams, and engineering teams by facilitating decision-making, resolving ambiguities, and ensuring clear cross-functional communication.
QUALIFICATIONS
Basic Qualifications
Master’s degree OR Bachelor’s degree with 8–12 years of experience in Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields
Experience in Agile delivery roles (Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or similar)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in biopharma R&D, disease biology, omics, multi-omics, or research informatics
Exposure to knowledge graphs / semantic graph platforms in life sciences
Strong understanding of data-driven scientific workflows and analytics platforms
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
Must-Have
Strong expertise in Agile methodologies, especially SAFe
Experience with tools like Jira, Confluence, and Jira Align
Proven ability to facilitate Agile ceremonies and ensure adherence to Agile practices
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a data-driven mindset
Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills
Good-to-Have
Understanding of DevOps and Test Automation pipelines
Experience facilitating workshops and Agile training sessions
Familiarity with data platforms, ETL pipelines, and cloud-based scientific ecosystems
CERTIFICATIONS (Preferred)
Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or equivalent
SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or equivalent
Scrum / Agile certifications (CSM, PSM)
SOFT SKILLS
Strong leadership, facilitation, and coaching capabilities
Excellent communication across scientific and technical audiences
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
Team-oriented mindset with a focus on outcomes and impact
SHIFT INFORMATION
This position may require working in later or overlapping shifts to support global collaboration. Flexibility for evening or night shifts is expected based on business needs.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT
Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to support participation in the application and interview process.
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