Job Description:

Careers that Change Lives
Our Health Applications Team develops real-time connected solutions that help diabetes patients live their lives better every day, and that also enable their health care providers to deliver care from anywhere in the world, at any time.

We create and support health applications and data systems that enable enterprise web applications for diagnostics & therapy analytics and also remote with real-time alerting. Building these distributed, integrated systems is hard, and we need experienced engineering leaders to formulate the right strategies that are both rigorous and also efficient. We release medical device software at the "speed of consumers", a unique challenge that we find extremely rewarding.

The Sr. Software Systems Engineer is the key leadership role in our team for owning the creation and delivery of these applications. You are strong leading technical work and collaborating across teams to expand our engineering competencies, grow execution scale and build rock-solid applications for stringent medical therapy needs. Your team members include local staff in our California business headquarters, along with remote teams in other geographies. You foster a collaborative and customer-focused engineering culture.

Our technologies leverage latest-generation rich client UIs on Angular/Typescript, back-end services on both Java/J2EE and highly scaled platforms on AWS. We utilize advanced authentication and security techniques required for communicating sensitive health data. Our automation frameworks include Selenium, Cucumber, ReadyAPI/SoapUI, LoadRunner, JMeter, and much more.

This is a unique opportunity to apply your best technical innovation, problem solving and leadership skills to truly make a difference in our health and well-being.
A Day in the Life

• Design new application solutions, front and back-end, in collaboration with system engineering, our product management organization and partner engineering teams.
• Collaborate with our software engineering groups to achieve strong organizational performance and advance our technology strategy.
• Drive product delivery across multiple programs and verify results of remote teams who must work closely and collaboratively with your US-based engineers.
• Establish continuous integration and automated testing that scales to meet our growing portfolio of connected applications.
• Grow process maturity and establish quality metrics in conjunction with R&D management to meet customer expectations, reliability and system performance.
• Analyze, diagnose, and resolve customer problem reports, working closely with product support.
• Establish software lifecycle metrics that provide "management by data" for multiple projects running in parallel.
• Build a culture of quality and engineering rigors spanning the software engineering life cycle.
• Communicate status regularly to peer and senior management teams.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, evaluates alternatives including cost and risk, supportability and analyses for total systems.
• Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
• Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of experience or a master's degree with at least 2 years of experience.

Nice to Have

• Strong organization acumen with the ability to communicate effectively to non-technical audiences
• Deep expertise in software test methodologies, quality standards/metrics
• Experience with APIs and data platforms, familiarity with JSON and YAML data formats
• Experience in a regulated environment

About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

Additional Information

• Posting Date: Feb 17, 2021
• Travel: No

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