Senior Principal 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

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.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• 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)
• 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 PCS software architecture team to ensure alignment across the Device Managers 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.
• Designs, develops, documents, tests, maintains, and debugs applications software and systems.
• 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.
• Work with DevOps teams to deliver, deploy, and operate the platform and solutions software.
  
  
  

Required Knowledge And Experience

• B-Tech / BE in Computer Science / Electronics or equivalent with 20+ years of experience in Software organizations involved in full end to end full stack architecture, design and development.
• ME / M-Tech in Computer Science / Electronics or equivalent with 18+ years of experience in Software organizations involved in full end to end full stack architecture, design and development.
• Solution architecture, Systems Design, Design Patterns, and frameworks implementation knowledge for enterprise solutions.
• Should be hands on defining UML, Object-oriented analysis / design, 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 including Test Driven Development (TDD).
• 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 methodologies and 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/AzDo/Github).
• Experience with modern software engineering practices, Agile, and DevOps.
• Experience in deployment automation and Continuous Integration / Continuous Testing / Continuous Delivery (CI/CT/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.
• Strong written and oral communication skills working with diverse audiences in both software development and Product Management.
  
  
  

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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