Job Title
Integration Specialist
Job Description
Job Responsibilities:
- Collaborates closely with software leaders and team members to proactively identify, analyze, and resolve risks, dependencies, and conflicts within the Agile environment, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption to project progress and delivery schedules.
- Leads improvement projects, initiating change, driving improvements within the discipline, independently developing, and implementing solutions to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and overall value delivery, working under limited supervision.
- Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways while encountering a diverse range of challenges within the Agile environment, demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Builds a culture of transparency by effectively communicating project status updates and impediments to stakeholders, including Release Train Engineers (RTEs) and Lean Portfolio Managers (LPMs), fostering trust and accountability across the Agile ecosystem.
- Provides dedicated support to Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Solution Trains, leveraging Kanban boards and information radiators to facilitate the smooth flow of value through teams, ensuring efficient progress tracking and alignment with strategic objectives.
- Provides guidance and coaching in Agile methodologies, nurturing a culture of continuous improvement and empowering teams to embrace Agile best practices for enhanced performance.
- Enhances advocacy for Agile principles and practices, promoting collaboration between teams, System & Solution Architects, Engineering, Marketing, and Quality & Regulatory (Q&R) departments, and implementing initiatives such as continuous delivery pipeline and DevOps integration.
- Supports Sprint/Program Increment (PI) Planning readiness sessions, ensuring thorough preparation of Vision and Backlogs and active participation in pre- and post-PI Planning meetings to facilitate alignment and effective planning.
- Enables teams to self-organize at scale by providing guidance on agile transformation efforts, supporting design flow optimization, and influencing flow factors within the Agile environment.
- Cultivates effective relationships, shares knowledge, and provides influence over projects and peer groups, demonstrating full understanding of area of specialization, effectively advocating for innovative ideas and guiding others towards optimal solutions.
Minimum Required Education
Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, Project Management, Program Management or equivalent.
Minimum Required Experience
Minimum 9 years of experience with Bachelor's in areas such as Software Development, Agile Project Management or equivalent OR no prior experience required with Master's Degree.
Minimum Required Certification
Leading SAFe and Advanced Scrum Master
Preferred Education
N/A
Preferred Experience
Minimum 3 years of experience as SCRUM Master and minimum 8 years of experience in Software Development
Preferred Certification
N/A
Preferred Skills
- Continuous Improvement
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Business Acumen
- People Management
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Scrum Methodology
- Agile Methodology
- Project Management Tools
- DevOps
- Project Management
- SAFe Principles
- Change Management
- Troubleshooting
How We Work Together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.