Title: Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master
Location: St. Paul, MN
Duration: 12 Month
100% Onsite
Reason role is open: Need dedicated Scrum Master/Project Manager to track and manage software release execution and mitigate risks.
Projects supported: Software development projects (enterprise software; not embedded or firmware-focused).
Typical day: Daily scrum meetings, sprint tracking, risk identification, stakeholder communication, and impediment removal.
Key interactions: Software developers, systems team, test team, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Success in first 90 days: Understanding projects, team dynamics, stakeholders, and creating an executable project plan for upcoming months.
Past interview challenges: Candidates lacked hands-on software development project experience.
Qualifications/Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
- 4+ years C++ or C#.net in Microsoft Windows development
- 4+ years of Agile software development
- Object Oriented Design Experience
- Desired Characteristics
- Technology/Process
- Master's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science
- Certified Scrum Master
- 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).
- Leadership
- Ability to take ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members
- Ensure understanding of issues and present clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results
- Identify misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy. Make suggestions to course correct
- Continuously measure deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balance different competing objectives
- Personal Attributes
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Effective facilitation, coaching, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit
Qualifications
Top required skills: Software development project experience; Agile/Scrum expertise; hands-on experience working with software teams.
Nice to have: Technical background or prior coding experience; ability to guide teams technically
Education/Certifications: Bachelor's in Technology or Science preferred; Scrum Master certification preferred.
Industry experience: Medical/pharmaceutical experience is a plus, not required.
Systems/tools: Windows environment; JIRA for Agile project tracking.
Nice-to-have technical exposure: Familiarity with C/C++ and ability to understand code changes (no coding required).
Essential 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.
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.
- Published on 10 Jul 2026, 10:19 PM