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 Development Architect, 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.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• 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.

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

• Collaborate with other architects and engineering teams to understand and drive the organization’s business requirements in-line with product NorthStar architecture.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Familiarize with Medical Devices Regulatory Standards, ex. IEC62304, ISO 13485(QMS)

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.

• 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.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• B-Tech/BE in Computer Science/Electronics or equivalent with 17+ years of experience in Software Industry OR ME/M-Tech in Computer Science/Electronics or equivalent with 15+ years of experience in Software Industry.

• Solution architecture, Systems Design, Design Patterns, and frameworks implementation knowledge for enterprise solutions.

• Expert in MicroServices, Containerization.

• Expert in Microsoft technology stack.

• 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 one of UI technologies like Angular, React, 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 

• 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.

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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