Scrum Master

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow's health today, we want to hear from you.

McKesson complies with all applicable U.S. immigration laws and regulations. The Company does not provide employer support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment benefit for this role.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a fulltime basis without the need for employer support or sponsorship now or in the future. This includes having the legal right to work in the United States without the need for McKesson support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment authorization (e.g., H1B, O1, E3, H1B1, TN, F1 OPT, F1 STEM OPT, F1 CPT, etc.)

now or in the future.

If you will require McKesson to provide immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future, you should not apply for this position.

Ontada is a leading oncology real world data and evidence, clinical education, and provider technology organization dedicated to transforming the fight against cancer. As part of McKesson Corporation, we support innovation for life sciences companies, empower community oncology providers, and advance patient care. Together with our partners, we improve outcomes for patients.

Reporting to an Agile Delivery Manager, the Scrum Master (P3) is accountable for end-to-end delivery leadership for single scrum team within Ontada's Technology Solutions portfolio. This role operates with autonomy and accountability, owning delivery outcomes, influencing senior stakeholders, and driving cross-team alignment in a regulated, enterprise environment.

• Own end-to-end delivery accountability across single scrum 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 standups, 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 prerelease 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.
• Ensure epics and stories are properly defined, prioritized, and meet functional and nonfunctional requirements with approved acceptance criteria.
• Proactively manage delivery risks, constraints, and dependencies; provide transparent milestone tracking and reporting.
• Maintain accurate Jira updates, 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 Plain View (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.

• Serve as a liaison between Product Owners, Development Teams, and external stakeholders to maintain alignment on priorities and objectives.
• Provide executive level communication on delivery status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate governance forums, milestone reviews, and executive checkpoints.
• Partner closely with Product Owners and technical leaders to maintain a build ready backlog for next 3-6 sprints.

• Proactively manage cross team dependencies and delivery impediments to protect release timelines.
• Ensure adherence to governance and compliance standards, including Release Scope Statements, Scope Change Requests (SCRs), and Service Now change requests (CRs).
• Lead risk identification and mitigation using ROAM or equivalent practices; elevate critical risks with clear mitigation plans.
• Ensure required delivery evidence and artifacts are created by the team to support audits and regulatory requirements.

• Coordinate overall testing readiness and execution in partnership with QA,…