Senior Specialist, DRACOE Scrum Master

Job Description

The Opportunity

 Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.

Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

 Our Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Centre helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

Role Overview

The Scrum Master for the Decommission, Retirement & Archival Center of Excellence (DRACoE) plays a central role in enabling predictable, compliant, and high‑quality delivery of DRACoE initiatives across multiple squads. The Scrum Master is responsible for enabling effective Agile delivery of practice initiatives that define, improve, and scale the DRACoE. This role focuses on facilitating the DRACoE team’s ceremonies, improving flow, coordinating cross‑functional work, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, while ensuring alignment between cloud engineering, application teams, data archival teams, and product owners, and supporting the effective adoption of AI solutions in line with governance, risk, and compliance requirements.

The Scrum Master also guides teams in adopting responsible and effective AI usage, helping them navigate new ways of working, reduce manual overhead, and improve quality throughout the SDLC.

 

What will you do in this role

• Facilitate all Scrum events, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand‑ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement.
• Establish, communicate, and reinforce Working Agreements, Definition of Ready, and Definition of Done across teams.
• Partner with the Product Owner to maintain a prioritized and refined backlog that includes AI opportunities and use cases; Process automation ideas ; Technical enablers and Archival workflow enhancements.
• Support teams in understanding and responsibly adopting AI‑based tools that improve planning, reporting, quality, and workflow efficiency.
• Support the day‑to‑day flow of work to help teams meet their sprint commitments and delivery goals.
• Monitor work progress, dependencies, risks, and alignment to sprint goals and DRACoE program outcomes.
• Follow up on retrospective actions and ensure that agreed improvements are implemented consistently.
• Apply appropriate Agile governance, including communication, reporting, traceability, documentation, and metrics.
• Maintain consistent reporting and review delivery metrics (e.g., velocity, throughput, blockers, aging, Agile health).
• Drive cross‑squad alignment, ensuring teams work together seamlessly with shared practices and consistent execution standards.
• Coach and mentor Scrum Masters, engineers, analysts, and other team members on Agile principles and modern ways of working.
• Support teams in maturing their Agile mindset, delivery discipline, and responsible AI adoption.

What should you have

Primary Skill: Agile development and delivery (Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban)

 Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Information Systems or any related field.

7–10 years of experience in Agile development and delivery (Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban).

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or an equivalent Agile certification required.
• Hands-on experience with the Atlassian toolset, particularly Jira and Confluence.
• Experience in the Pharma or Healthcare sector is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and conflict-resolution skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in English.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation. 

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Required Skills:

Asset Management, Benefits Management, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs

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Job Posting End Date:

03/20/2026

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