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Scrum Master / Release Train Engineer (RTE) GxP / Life Sciences

Purple Drive Technologies LLCRaritan, NJ🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 9, 2026

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Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
On Site
Location
Raritan, NJ, United States
Posted
23 hours ago
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Job Description

ROLE_DESCRIPTION:

  • Deep understanding of Agile principles and practices| including Scrum| Kanban| and Lean.
  • Ensure the Agile Release Train (ART) stays on course by facilitating its events and processes and assisting the teams in delivering value and driving relentless improvement.
  • Typically| a servant leader who acts as Chief Scrum Master and coach for the ART
  • Demonstrable experience of Scrum Management.
  • Ability to engage and manage relationships with various stakeholders| including product owners| team members| and external partners.
  • Assist with economic decision-making by facilitating team features and capability estimation and roll-up to the value stream and portfolio level
  • Experience in Agile tools like JIRA| Confluence.
  • Good skills to coach team how to follow agile scrum process.
  • Basic understanding of software development processes| Agile engineering practices| DevOps etc.
  • Knowledge of Agile methodology User Story management| Continuous Integration| Continuous Testing| tasks and capacity planning etc.
  • Strong ability to facilitate meetings| workshops| and ceremonies (e.g.| Sprint Planning| Daily Stand-ups| Sprint Reviews| and Retrospectives).Ability to foresee upcoming risks| impediments and guide the Scrum Team to achieve the resolution.
  • Ability to analyze and report on team performance metrics (e.g.| velocity| burndown charts) and use data to drive improvements.
  • Ability to take and understand commitment to deliver the product on time.
  • Scrum Master certification is preferred.
  • GxP experience is required
  • Experience in Life Sciences CPG industry
  • Manage the scrum process by coordinating with the Scrum Team as well as with the other Scrum Masters and be flexible to participate in-person onsite scrum events (minimum 3 days per week).
  • Be detailed| oriented and organized to keep the squad on track with deliverables at the same time be able to foresee upcoming risks| impediments that could impact delivery and help the squad navigate through it.
  • Able to adapt Agile practices with Customers Ways of Working| especially with GXP validated systems.
  • Facilitate Scrum events (Sprint Planning| Daily Stand-ups| Sprint Reviews| and Sprint Retrospectives) to ensure they are productive and time boxed.
  • Help the team to reach consensus during discussions and facilitate decision-making.
  • Promote the adoption of Agile best practices and help the team embrace a mindset of learning| collaboration and experimentation.
  • Track the teams progress and performance through metrics (e.g.| velocity| burn-down charts) and ensure transparency in reporting.
  • Manage the product backlog and refine user stories.
  • Create useful| reliable and practical plans for the project and perform capacity planning.
  • Coach team members on Agile practices and help them grow in their roles.
  • Encourage a culture of continuous improvement by facilitating Sprint Retrospectives and help the team to identify areas for improvement.

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