Scrum Master

This role leads agile sprints for a medical software development team, ensuring that the Scrum framework is applied effectively to deliver high-quality software in a predictable and collaborative way.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for the medical software development team.

• Guide the team in applying Scrum methodology and agile principles to plan, execute, and deliver software increments consistently.

• Remove impediments that block the team's progress and proactively address risks and issues that affect sprint goals.

• Support the team in breaking down work, estimating effort, and maintaining a healthy and transparent product and sprint backlog.

• Encourage continuous improvement by helping the team inspect and adapt processes, tools, and collaboration practices.

• Promote clear communication and alignment within the development team and with relevant stakeholders.

• Ensure that agile best practices are followed throughout the software development lifecycle for medical software projects., The role supports an agile medical software development team that works in iterative sprints and relies on close collaboration, regular communication, and continuous feedback. The environment emphasizes transparency, teamwork, and adherence to Scrum practices to deliver high-quality software. Work is focused on software planning, development, and delivery using agile tools and ceremonies to structure each sprint.

• Proven experience working as a Scrum Master in an agile software development environment.

• Strong knowledge of Scrum methodology and agile principles.

• Hands-on experience supporting software projects using Scrum frameworks.

• Ability to facilitate Scrum ceremonies and coach teams in agile practices.

• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience working on medical or healthcare-related software projects is highly beneficial.

• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and cross-functional development teams.

• Ability to foster a culture of continuous improvement and team accountability.

This is a Contract position based out of Minneapolis, MN.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $80.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: * Medical, dental & vision * Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital * 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available * Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) * Short and long-term disability * Health Spending Account (HSA) * Transportation benefits * Employee Assistance Program * Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.