Senior Scrum Master

The role is for a Sr. Scrum Master at McKesson's Ontada organization, leading agile delivery for complex teams in a regulated healthcare environment.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $121,100–$201,900

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery accountability across two teams or a complex team, ensuring predictable, high-quality outcomes.
• Establish and operate the delivery model, including sprint cadence, backlog readiness, planning, reviews, retrospectives, and release coordination.
• Facilitate all agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, daily stand‑ups, sprint planning, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
• Coach the Product Owner and team to ensure work items have clear scope, sizing, dependencies, risks, and acceptance criteria.
• Define a sprint and release scope based on product prioritization and engineering capacity.
• Lead integrated planning across product, engineering, UX, QA, and release management.
• Lead pre‑release planning, including development, validation, and readiness of Release Scope Statements; assess capacity and communicate risks and dependencies.
• Manage release‑level capacity planning, estimation, sequencing, and delivery tracking.
• Proactively manage cross‑team dependencies, risks, and constraints impacting delivery timelines and scope; provide transparent milestone tracking.
• Drive delivery trade‑off decisions and escalation paths with clear options and recommendations.
• Ensure visibility and transparency through delivery dashboards and reporting.
• Maintain Jira hygiene, enforce Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, and ensure runbook updates are completed as required.
• Lead non-prod WAR/MIM rooms to resolve time-sensitive non-production issues as needed for Dev, QA or Staging environments in preparation for upcoming releases.
• Maintain accurate PlainView (PV) update for the scrum team with the corresponding project and product attributes.
• Ensure weekly time-tracking is reported by the scrum team; facilitate review of the time tracking reports with the Leadership Team frequently.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience.
• 7+ years of experience leading complex, large scale agile delivery initiatives in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated success in Scrum Master, Project Manager, or hybrid delivery leadership roles.
• Proven ability to manage two scrum teams or a complex team, dependencies, and stakeholders in fast paced, regulated environments.
• Strong executive communication skills, with experience engaging Directors, VPs, and senior leaders.
• Expert level experience managing scope, timelines, and delivery commitments.
• Solid understanding of technical architecture and product roadmaps to effectively support engineering teams.
• Experience enabling engineering best practices, including CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, and code quality standards.
• Experience working with modern software engineering teams (web, cloud, APIs, microservices).
• Proficiency with delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, or similar.
• Deep knowledge of Scrum framework, roles, ceremonies, artifacts, and principles.
• Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification from a recognized industry organization.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards.
• Pay range for this position is $121,100 - $201,900.
• Other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities, may be offered.

Additional Information

• McKesson does not support immigration sponsorship for this role.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.
• McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides accommodations for applicants with disabilities.