Senior Principal Enterprise Software Engineer- Device Manager

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 Cardiac and Vascular Group brings all our cardiac and vascular businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe. Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms, as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions.

As the Device Managers Architect of Software Architecture and Technology, you will be reporting to the leader of the Architecture and Technology team of the Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure (CRHF) R&D organization. You will be driving the architecture of the components and services of our Cloud Technologies layer, making decisions on open source, and purchased software underpinning both platforms and applications. These platforms and applications are the software basis of Medtronic’s offerings that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for over 1.6M patients in 80 geographies using web, mobile and proprietary device clients providing data from implanted devices.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

Designs, develops, documents, tests, maintains, and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.

Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and / or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.

Ensures software standards are met.

Work with other architects within the team to ensure the Device Manager applications and services provide scalable and resilient services that are productive and efficient to use.

Deliver software telemetry and self-service documentation for your work and champion it’s practices.

Put together POC’s to evaluate new services and capabilities; participate in development and review of code that creates and runs our Device Managers.

Work with IT to drive implementation & planning.

Work with DevOps teams to deliver, deploy, and operate the software.

Inception

Sets the architectural vision, design, and technology choices for the components and services of our Device Managers, making decisions on open source and purchased software underpinning both platforms and applications.

Provides well informed recommendations with multiple options using POCs and other means of establishing validated learning in critical aspects of the architecture and design.

Identifies and documents technical risks and strategies for mitigation.

Gains support and approval for architecture and design, this often involves collaboration with other architects and development teams.

Delivers and maintains architecture documents and presentations needed for review and team guidance.

Accountable for technical viability of quality solutions that work with the given cost, scope, and schedule while maximizing progress toward the vision and balancing technical debt.

Establish patterns, practices and standards that enable teams to work more independently while maintaining integrity of the system.

Collaborates with Product Owners, HFUX, Systems Engineers, fellow Architects, and technical leaders, to define solutions to market requirements.

Works with other teams in the formulation and review of their work, providing critical thinking and additional options that improve the work of the wider team.

Works with Product Leaders to define vision by providing a voice of technical possibility, feasibility, and sequencing options.

Plans R&D or system projects or strategic functional initiatives and recommends technological application projects / solutions to accomplish medium-term to long-range objectives.

Expected to guide or lead business unit in new technical directions.

Recognized technical authority and innovator in field of expertise and / or resource within the field by peers within the organization.

Author technical papers and / or file patents; Fosters technical innovation.

Serves as a principal spokesperson internally related to subject matter expertise pertaining to its policies, plans, and objectives, new technological / technical research, functional thought leadership and other significant advancements.

Delivery

Engages with the persistent teams through Agile / Scrum ceremonies including PI and Scrum planning, stand ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives as appropriate.

Engages with the larger architecture team to ensure alignment across the Patient Management ecosystem of hardware and software.

Works with the Product Owners to define aspects of user story acceptance criteria and the prioritization of the Architecture Runway.

Balances security with cost and capability assessments to support experiences designed.

Works with the persistent teams to adapt the design based on early sprints and other learnings.

Guides the teams in leveraging established standards, patterns, and practices for delivery.

Required Knowledge and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering or another technical field

Requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience

Proficient in two or more of the following : C / C++ / C#, Java, Java script / Scripting

Proficient at architecting, building, and deploying systems on Mobile computing platform such as iPad, Android, & embedded Linux.

Preferred to have experience at factoring operational cost into infrastructure, architecture, and service decisions.

Preferred to have experience working with application development in the healthcare domains of an FDA regulated environment.

Preferred to have experience with clinical domain systems and standards (e.g. Epic, HL7)

10+ years in technical lead / Architect roles for software development teams building mission critical cloud applications in an environment applying modern engineering practices (Lean, Agile, DevOps).

Strong written and oral communication skills working with diverse audiences in both software development and traditional IT roles.

Excellent attitude and aptitude with demonstrated strategic mindset that can drive change.

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 90,000+ 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.

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