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
The IT Program Manager plays a pivotal role in driving transformation and delivering high-impact technology solutions across the organization. Acting as a Scrum Master and servant leader, this role supports one or more Agile teams by facilitating core ceremonies, removing impediments, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and self-management. This position will be a remote position in Bogotá.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Serve as a Scrum Master (or leader or other Agile ways of working), servant leader, and coach for one or more Agile teams

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives)

• Works with, and assists, multiple Project Managers to coordinate, communicate, resolve issues, look for risks, and planning support for specific initiatives.

• Assist in coordinating efforts with other Scrum Masters, PMs, and teams to identify and manage dependencies in work.

• Help the team focus on creating high-value solutions that meet agreed quality standards

• Creates transparency through visual dashboards, information radiators, and actively promoting clarity in all communications

• Ensure that development activities are accurately accounted for in existing project management tooling and processes

• Facilitate the removal of impediments that slow the team down

• Optimize effectiveness of the product team, by coaching team members in self-management and cross-functionality

• Coaching the team towards high performance and ownership of its own learning & improvement journey

• Helps employees, leaders and other stakeholders to understand and apply empirical approaches to complex product development.

• Ensure that the chosen agile methodology is applied effectively

• Coaching and mentoring team members and others in the organization to understand and get maximum value from using agile methodologies

• This is an IT role, so provides leadership for those involved in the development, design and optimization of one or more information technology and systems functions supporting company business processes and technical information systems platforms.

• Ensures infrastructure architecture maximize efficiency and support platform compatibility.

• Coordinates delivery of services to user groups and ensures IT service is uninterrupted.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related fields

• Completely fluent in English

• Minimum of five years of experience

• Scrum Master knowledge is advantageous

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.

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.

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

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 95,000+ 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