Senior Principal Software Engineer

Senior Principal Software Engineer – Software Architect for Device Managers

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The Cardiovascular 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 Management (CRM) offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms, as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions.

As the Software Architect for Device Managers, you will be reporting to Engineering Director – Software & Systems, the leader for Cardiac Rhythm Management at MEIC with a deep alignment to the Architecture and Technology team of the Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure (CRHF) R&D organization. You will be driving the software architecture and technology choices for specific products, 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.

A Day in the Life

• Define and communicate the architecture for all aspects of CRM software, the architecture to enable it, and the steps to realization.
• Demonstrate accountability of platform / solution architecture and design to build scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Collaborate with other architects and engineering teams to understand and drive the organization’s business requirements in-line with product target architecture.
• Evaluate and improve tools, technologies, patterns and framework used in software development.
• Enable compliance with internal and external Architectural, Design, Coding and Testing standards.
• Share software best practices, architectural principles, concepts and define standards for the team to build consistent and maintainable code and reusable frameworks.
• Research and propose tool and technology choices.
• Serve as technical voice for current and future-state software development practices with internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, and operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.
• Create visibility into the state of software through feedback loops and metrics.
• Consult with others to leverage what exists and obtain feedback towards continuous improvement.
• Familiarize yourself with Medical Devices Regulatory Standards, ex. IEC62304, ISO 13485(QMS)

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