Principal Scrum Master at Medtronic in Mounds View, Minnesota

Job Description:

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life
Principal Scrum Master

Careers that Change Lives

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work.

The Cardiac Ablations Solutions Unit develops life-restoring therapies and healthcare solutions that span the care continuum; integrating technologies and applying clinical and economic evidence to increase patient access, improve efficiency of procedures and deliver successful patient outcomes.

CAS is an Operating Unit (OU) housed within the larger Cardiovascular (CV) Portfolio. There are eight OUs within CV: Cardiac Ablation Solutions, Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM), Cardiac Surgery (CS), Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Services (CDS), Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN), Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS), Structural Heart and Aortic (SH&A), and Peripheral Vascular Health (PVH). In addition to the CV portfolio, Medtronic also has businesses in Diabetes, Neuroscience and Medical Surgical.

This position is in Mounds View, MN within the Cardiac Ablations Solutions Operating Unit and requires on-site presence three days a week.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result -and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.
Day in the Life

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Principal Scrum Master role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Serves one or more Scrum Teams


• Coach members of the Scrum Team in adherence and benefits to role accountabilities


• Promote collaboration and teamwork across scrum team members, encouraging cross-training and team support when necessary


• Guide teams to be able to make connections to the team's behaviors and both the Agile Manifesto and the Scrum Framework.


• Facilitate Scrum Events as needed or requested. Understand effective facilitation and be able to demonstrate different facilitation techniques.


• Understand and demonstrate versatility in coaching and communicating with Scrum Team members based on unique behavioral styles.


• Ensure the Scrum Team is setting commitments (Product Goal, Sprint Goal, Definition of Done).


• Ensure the Scrum Team is striving toward Self-Management.


• Ensure the effectiveness of all Scrum Events and Artifacts.


• Coach both the Product Owner (PO) and Product Development Managers (PDMs) to ensure good product backlog management is happening and the product backlog is aligned to backlog priority.


• Protect the developers from distractions that keep them from achieving the sprint goal.


• Ensure that the right information is radiated to those that need it.


• Understand when the situation calls for facilitation, teaching, modeling, mentoring, and coaching. Use the appropriate technique for each unique situation.


• Demonstrate servant leadership.

Performance and Execution:

• Demonstrate servant leadership.


• Understand and Identify Impediments to the team's success, and facilitate their removal


• Understand and facilitate the creation of Working Agreements


• Stay abreast of and incorporate new Scrum Guide changes.


• Help the team to self-organize/self-manage


• Promote collaboration and teamwork across scrum team members; encourage cross-training


• Train/educate others on Agile frameworks


• Analyze modifications to frameworks or process decisions with the Agile Manifesto to guide others.


• Use multiple facilitation and coaching techniques.


• Facilitate larger organizational events like communities of practice, lean coffee, etc.


• Facilitate root cause analysis sessions as needed.


• Apply conflict resolution techniques.


• Evaluate and coach improvement in team performance.

Specialized Knowledge or Skills:

• Prior experience with Lean, Lean Startup, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP


• Prior experience in helping lead an organizational Lean/Agile transformation


• Prior experience leading or actively participating in software engineering delivery


• Prior experience Lean/Agile coaching and teaching


• Prior experience giving and receiving value-added feedback


• Prior experience or interest in working in distributed, global teams


• Prior experience or interest in teaching and coaching team members


• Prior experience applying conflict resolution techniques

Qualifications -

MUST HAVE - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

• Bachelor's degree required


• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

NICE TO HAVE:

• First-level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)


• Second-level Scrum Master certification (A-CSM, PSM II)


• Scaling experience and/or knowledge of multiple scaling frameworks


• Regulated industry experience


• Experience with product software/firmware integrated with electromechanical systems


• Familiarity with tools like Azure Dev Ops, JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams, or similar


• Experience building strong relationships with Scrum Teams, Product Owners, external stakeholders, and leadership


• Experience with strategic communication outside of teams to stakeholders and leaders


• Knowledge of multiple facilitation and coaching techniques


• Prior Coaching and Facilitation experience


• Experience giving and receiving value-added feedback


• Experience or interest in working in distributed, global teams


• Experience or interest in teaching and coaching team members


• Understand Systems Thinking


• Experience applying conflict resolution techniques

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$119,000.00 - $178, 800.00

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here .

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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