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 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 SW Developer Experience Architect, you will design, build, and maintain solutions that help deliver a reliable, scalable, and efficient platform foundation that supports the deployment, management, and monitoring of our applications and services. You will use cloud technology to automate many components of the software development and deployment lifecycle. 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.

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.

• Collaborate with the architecture team to design the organization's platform infrastructure, considering scalability, performance, security, and automation.

• Develop and maintain automation scripts, infrastructure-as-code solutions, and configuration. management tools to streamline the provisioning and management of infrastructure resources.

• Drive the implementation of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to enable efficient deployment and scaling of applications.

• Develop policies, standards, guidelines, governance, and related guidance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps teams, fostering a culture of innovation, learning, and collaboration.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into robust and scalable platform solutions.

• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and trends to identify opportunities for improving the platform's architecture and processes.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and application-related issues.

• Lead capacity planning efforts to ensure the platform can accommodate growth and changing demands.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for architecture, deployment procedures, and troubleshooting guides.

• Contribute to the organization's technical strategy by providing insights and recommendations on infrastructure improvements and innovations 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

• 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.

• 15+ years of experience operating a large, distributed, production software stack

• 15+ years of experience with Linux systems administration (preferably RH/EPEL derivatives)

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Docker, building Docker files and images, establishing Docker image repositories.

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes and creating and managing a Kubernetes based infrastructure

• 8+ years of experience in a public or private cloud environment

• Proven experience delivering software using .Net, C, Java, Python, Golang, or similar languages

• Strong understanding of computer networking and security fundamentals and tools and techniques typically encountered in troubleshooting distributed systems

• Experience with CI/CD/CT pipelines and source code control

• Experience with Kubernetes package management solutions such as Helm

• Experience working in an Agile team setting

• Experience working with a secure software development lifecycle

• Experience building, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines & pipeline templates

• Proficiency in leveraging automated testing tools to automate testing.

• Preferred to have experience managing cloud scalability or a mission critical environment

• Preferred to have experience operating and securing Internet/public facing production service

• Preferred to have experience in deploying/managing software to on-premises, co-located, cloud, and hybrid cloud

• Preferred to have experience with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation

• Preferred to have experience with Kustomize and Flux

• Preferred to have experience with Octopus, Ansible

• Preferred to have experience with Service Meshes (e.g., Istio)

• Preferred to have experience with monitoring stacks (ELK, AppD, Datadog, Prometheus)

• Preferred to have DevSecOps Engineer Certification, AWS Devops Engineering professional, AWS Certified Security specialist, or similar.

• Preferred to have CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator or CKAD - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

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

• Experience with version control systems with Git such as BitBucket, or Azure DevOps

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here