Careers that Change Lives As a Software Project Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the software development process and working closely with the software development team and other functions. Your responsibility is to ensure details are handled and chaos is managed appropriately. You are an owner and you make it happen. You consider how to risk-manage for prevention, and how to quickly redirect when unexpected issues arise. You define and manage the detailed schedule and can effectively communicate project state at all times. You're able to interpret and understand how the pieces come together to make a software successful project.
A Day in the Life
Key Technical Competencies:
Experienced with software development activities for mobile software projects.
Manage feature planning: Drive estimation, work breakdown, and resource allocation.
Create and maintain the schedule, drive intermediate deliverables, and ensure project commitments are met.
Define and track weekly work goals, managing engineer's activities and priorities to meet expectations.
Report work goals to management and identify impact on overall project schedule.
Understand process requirements for developing regulated medical devices and ensure development activities are compliant to our procedures.
Key Leadership Competencies:
Understand technical issues and escalate issues as needed and drive them to resolution.
Work collaboratively and professionally with outside organizations while dealing with organizational complexity and competing priorities.
Ability to communicate schedule changes and challenges both to management and to the development team.
Sets meaningful personal goals and helps others prioritize short-term activities around work team/functional priorities
Demonstrates accountability for one's own decisions and is able to articulate rationale without being defensive. Views mistakes as learning opportunity and supports an environment of continuous improvement.
Effectively solicits and shares complex information within and across work teams, stating own point of view even when difficult or unpopular; listens effectively
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Leads or leverages cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects
Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
Manages the development and implementation process of a company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes.
Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
Monitors the project from initiation through delivery.
Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
Gathers requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of project's key stakeholders.
Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.
Our space, the medical device and healthcare industry, is rapidly changing. It always has been that way. With remote monitoring, wearables, robotics, AR/VR, telemedicine, and much more, agility and responsiveness are key to our success. Experience what it's like to work at a company with an exciting product pipeline full of patented inventions driving innovation in the healthcare space.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION, THE FOLLOWING BASIC QUALIFICATIONS MUST BE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME Education Required:
Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or Sciences
Years of Experience:
Bachelor's Degree 5 years of professional experience or Master's Degree 3+ years of professional experience Nice to Have
Masters of Science degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related Engineering field
Experience in Software Development project management - preferably Mobile Apps Team interaction, communication, negotiation, and leadership skills
Experience as a software engineer
Experience working in a regulated industry
Experience applying Agile, Scrum or Iterative Development Methodologies
Experience in medical software development process such as IEC 62304 or other regulated software development
About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services 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.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.
Physical Job Requirements
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)