Title: Scrum Master
Location: St. Paul, MN
Duration: 12 Months (Possibility of Conversion)
100% Onsite
Job Summary
Seeking a motivated and experienced Scrum Master to lead Agile teams in delivering high-quality software for medical products that advance clinical excellence. As a member of the software development team you will help take these products to the next level by optimizing cost, improving quality and increasing access.
Required Skills
- Agile/Scrum experience
- Computer science/software background.
Job Responsibilities
- Servant leader who would facilitate scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, and ensure adherence to Agile principles and Scrum practices.
- Work closely with Product Owners, Developers, and other stakeholders to foster a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
- Provide technical leadership to an Agile team of 6 to 8 Software Engineers
- Translate requirements / vision into prioritized list of user stories and deliver to required timelines and quality standards with continuous backlog refinement
- Coordinate with other Scrum Masters and Agile teams to ensure alignment and technology reuse
- Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining & support activities
- Track and report key Agile metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown charts)
- Coach, mentor and lead the team
- Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables
- Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products
- Communicate effectively both within immediate team and across the program and business leadership team
- Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy and results
- Engage subject matter experts in successful transfer of complex domain knowledge
- Have familiarity with all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle and methodologies
- Leveraging DFR in Agile software development methodologies to drive reliability and
- predictability throughout the product development life cycle
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
- 5–7 years overall experience & 3–5 years as Scrum Master
- 4+ years C++ or C#.net in Microsoft Windows development
- 4+ years of Agile software development
- Object Oriented Design Experience
Preferred Experiences
- Regulatory knowledge, medical device experience.
- Certified Scrum Master nice to have
- Master’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science
- Global team experience
- Experience in software development in the medical field
- Software development tool experience such as Perforce, Jira, Jenkins
- Understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
Consultants Eligible Benefits Upon Waiting Period
- Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
- Dental Plan
- Vision Plan
- Health Savings Account (for High Deductible Health Plans)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
- Long Term Disability
- Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
- MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
- 401(k)
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines.
Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.
