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Electrophysiology Therapies (EPT) Software develops the next generation medical technologies that alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of patients across the world. 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.
EPT Software is developed with state of the art, industry standard technologies and used by Clinicians and Patients worldwide. In this exciting role as a Senior Software Program Manager, you will have responsibility for managing software development program that support products in Electrophysiology Therapies (EPT). These products include implantable cardiac devices (pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, cardiac re-synchronization devices and cardiac rhythm monitors). The Senior Program Manager is accountable for ensuring software execution and delivery across agile/scrum teams within the Patient Care Systems organization.
This includes responsibility to guide software development team(s) in their day-to-day development activities, provide program and project planning, scheduling and tracking, and help drive functional excellence in program execution for the Software organization. The candidate must be self-driven, with a strong understanding and experience of program management, the Software Development Lifecycle process and strong technical and leadership skills.
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.
Day in the Life:
In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior Software Engineering Program Manager role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:
Responsible for program(s) estimation and planning including identifying requirements, developing work plans, managing program annual and strategic budgets, building schedules, and partnering with team members to determine and communicate functional and/or resource requirements.Own and Manage execution against an aggressive but achievable program and/or project plan, provide work direction to team members, work with peer program managers, cross functional program team members to monitor dependencies and ensure critical program milestones and deliverables are met. Coordinate timelines across multiple projects to ensure overall program level cohesive progressCollaborate with Core Team Leaders, Platform Leaders, Product Managers, Functional Leaders, Human Factors Engineer, Architects & Systems Engineers to drive programs within scope, cost, and scheduleLead team(s) of software engineers (employees and vendor resources) to deliver program commitmentsCommunicate program status and issues to internal and external stakeholders regularly including the Core Team Leader and Development Lead in the Program Core Team as appropriate. Proactively manage quality, risks, and issues at all stages in the programProvide clear, concise, and data-driven program status reporting to senior leadership, ensuring visibility to progress, commitments, risks, dependencies, key decisions, tradeoffs, and recovery actions required to achieve program outcomesProvide team members with a clear vision and purpose for the program and create a positive tone and morale for the team. Motivate team members and build project team identity and cohesion. Ensure effective cross-discipline coordination and communication is occurring throughout the programParticipate, facilitate and coordinate as needed quarterly product team ceremonies such as quarterly planning, report outs & retrospectivesProvide input for setting team members’ performance objectives and provide feedback to the functional leaders about performance against project deliverables and core competencies undefined#CRMSoftware
