Senior Scrum Master - Newton, MA (Hybrid) at Medtronic in Newton, Massachusetts

Job Description:

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 9 Dec 2024

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
Medtronic Cardiac Ablation Solutions (CAS) is looking for a Senior Scrum Master to join our R&D Organization to support our product development teams in the design and development of application software and firmware for cardiac electrophysiology capital systems.

As a Senior Scrum Master within the Cardiac Ablation Solutions Software Organization, you are accountable for working with your scrum team(s), product owners, and leaders to deliver capabilities that meet overall business objectives using Agile frameworks. This role is expected to guide scrum teams through the development of new product capabilities, features, and solutions that support business strategies and initiatives. This role will continuously develop and improve software development and execution.

The Affera Mapping and Ablation System is an innovative medical technology designed to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The system involves advanced mapping techniques to create detailed images of the heart's electrical activity, helping physicians identify abnormal areas causing arrhythmias. Once identified, the Affera Ablation System delivers targeted energy to disrupt these abnormal signals, restoring normal heart rhythm.

A career at Medtronic is like no other. We're purposeful. We're committed. And we're driven by our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of people worldwide.

• 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.

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

• 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) and 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 including p riority alignment

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

• Understand when the situation calls for facilitation, teaching, modeling, mentoring, and coaching

• 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 root cause analysis sessions as needed

• Apply conflict resolution techniques.

• Evaluate and coach improvement in team performance.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 4 years of relevant experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant expe r ience .

Nice to Have:

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

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

• Scrum Master for software engineering teams or related project management experience

• Scaling experience and/or knowledge of multiple scaling frameworks

• Knowledge and/or experience applying different Agile frameworks (Kanban, eXtreme Programming, etc )

• Regulated Industry Experience

• Experience with product software/firmware integrated with electromechancial systems

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

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• 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 working in distributed, global teams

• Experience or interest in teaching and coaching team members

• Understand Systems Thinking

• Experience applying conflict resolution techniques

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):$101,600.00 - $152,400.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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.