We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 1 Aug 2025

 

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

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology 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. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

The Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Management group is seeking a Principal Scrum Master to join our Software organization, supporting the delivery and continuous improvement of our Information Systems platform. In this role, you will serve as a servant leader to agile teams by fostering team collaboration, removing impediments, and driving delivery excellence across platform initiatives. You’ll work closely with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure team alignment on priorities, progress, and outcomes that maximize the value of our shared services for both internal and external users.

As a Principal Scrum Master, you will act as a critical link between the scrum and products teams and their stakeholders, including software engineers, operations staff, and business partners—by enabling effective communication, transparency, and agile discipline. You’ll help ensure that teams understand not just the “what” and the “why” of their work, but also have the tools, support, and coaching they need to deliver consistent value in a scalable and sustainable way.

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.

This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) operating unit. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

A Day in Life:

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

You play a key leadership role across multiple high-impact teams within our Remote Patient Monitoring product ecosystem. You are the glue that connects continuous flow of value, agile maturity, and team empowerment. Here's what your day typically looks like:

• Lead 2 to 3 Scrum teams focused on operational products supporting the RPM platform.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure backlog refinement and clarity of priorities.
• Remove delivery blockers, escalate dependencies, and foster cross-team alignment.
• Use delivery metrics (Say/Do, Churn, Throughput, Cycle time, WIP etc) to drive transparency and improvement.
• Support roadmap and capacity planning in collaboration with engineering and product leadership.
• Mentor and coach junior Scrum Masters, helping them build confidence and maturity.
• Guide teams in adapting Agile practices within a regulated, medical technology environment.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, psychological safety, and self-organization.
• Balance speed and compliance to ensure scalable, high-quality delivery aligned with patient safety standards and regulations.

You Thrive Because You...

• Lead through influence, empathy, and a servant-leadership mindset.
• Adapt Agile frameworks to suit team maturity, business constraints, and product complexity.
• Communicate effectively across various cross-functions and teams
• Champion continuous flow and improvement while promoting Agile values in a pragmatic, delivery-focused way.
• Take pride in mentoring others and fostering a thriving Agile community of practice.

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Qualifications

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

Must Have: Minimum