Senior Principal Enterprise Software Engineer

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

Careers that Change Lives

Impact patient outcomes. Come for a job, stay for a career.

The Cardiovascular Group brings all of 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 Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting the software capabilities of the full technology stack for CRM’s next generation enterprise Clinician Programmer and Patient Care Management system. This enterprise software supports clinicians across 90+ geographies for in clinic implant, follow-up and remote monitoring.

You will be responsible for defining the vision and driving the realization for robust software in the context of DevOps based software delivery. You will provide leadership and architectural direction to engineering teams to ensure speed, quality, and compliance. You will continuously drive software improvements by leveraging state-of-the-art methodologies, standards and tools, acting as a conduit of progressive external and internal thinking. Your perspective will be broad, incorporating system level design thinking and arriving at solution approach for complex technical problems across software development life cycle.

A Day in the Life

• Define and communicate the vision for all aspects of CRM software, the architecture to enable it, and the steps to realization.
• Demonstrate accountability of design and architecture 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 NorthStar architecture.
• Evaluate and improve the tools and framework used in software development.
• Enable compliance with internal and external 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 dev 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 help leverage what exists and obtain feedback for how to improve.
• Familiariaze with Medical Devices Regulatory Standards, ex. IEC62304, ISO 13485(QMS)
  
  
  

Qualification :

B-Tech/BE in Computer Science/Electronics or equivalent with 17+ years of experience in Software Industry.

ME/M-Tech in Computer Science/Electronics or equivalent with 15+ years of experience in Software Industry.

Skills & Experience:

• Solution architecture, Systems Design, Design Patterns, and frameworks implementation knowledge for enterprise solutions
• Should be hands on defining UML, High-Level and Low-Level Design (HLD/LLD) documents.
• Strong programming skills in C#,.NET And/Or C, C++, Web Services, REST protocols for software design, development, debug and test practices.
• Should have experience in UI technologies like HTML5,JavaScript,CSS,BootStrap.
• Should have knowledge in designing and implementing secure solutions.
• Should have experience in cross platform development , ex. iOS, Android,Windows.
• Familiarity with multi-threading,synchronous and asynchronous programming.
• Good Understanding or experience with Agile process
• Should be able to understand Web Based applications design , remote procedure calls , distributed computing and apply those concepts to Product development.
• Should be familiar with network security protocols(TLS/SSL)
• Should be familiar with configuration management tools (TFS/Github)
• Experience with modern software engineering practices, Agile, and DevOps.
• Experience in deployment automation and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Experience making architecture-level decisions that span teams, applications, and technologies with demonstrable improvements in the quality and speed of an engineering organization’s output
  
  
  

Nice to Have:

• Domain knowledge on healthcare/ med-tech is preferred.
• Strong Leadership skills and mentoring capabilities.
• Experience with Cloud native architecture and Azure DevOps.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams
• Design/test experience with regulated medical devices
• Experience with large-scale organizational transformation
• Working Knowledge of Six-Sigma principles is plus.
  
  
  

TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering R&D, systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Recognized master in professional discipline.

Works independently to implement strategic goals and establish operational plans for job area.

Assignments are often self-initiated. Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.

Organizational Impact: Strongly influences the design of new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on functional results.

Implements strategic goals established by functional leadership.

Changes or may establish operational plans for job area with long-range impact on results.

Innovation and Complexity: Faces problems that span a wide range of difficulty and unique issues across functions and / or businesses which may cause redirection.

Develops solutions to unique issues. Improves upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation.

Communication and Influence: Interacts with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels, including executive leadership, on significant matters.

Conducts briefings with senior leaders within the job function.

Negotiates with others to reach understanding or agreement.

Leadership and Talent Management: Frequently provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees.

Typically manages large, moderately complex initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires mastery level knowledge of specialty area and working knowledge of several other areas, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.

May have deep knowledge of project management.

Requires a Baccalaureate Degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience. (For degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R.

• 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A)).
  
  
  

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.

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 95,000+ 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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