Careers that Change Lives

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result -and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It's no accident -we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it's the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.

Diabetes Operating Unit

The Diabetes Operating Unit focuses on improving the lives of those within the global diabetes community. As a business, we strive to empower people with diabetes to live life on their terms by delivering innovation that truly matters and providing support in the ways they need it. We're committed to meeting people with diabetes where they are in their journey, always with an aim to make their lives easier. Our portfolio of innovative solutions are designed to provide customers greater freedom and better health, helping them achieve better glucose control, while spending less time managing their disease.

A Day in the Life

In this exciting role as a Senior Principal Technical Architect, you will be responsible for creating architecture that effectively supports the Quality System. The technical architect (TA) is responsible for leading technology strategy definition solution design and strategy execution. The TA is accountable for both ensuring that our current technical implementations are moving forward effectively and setting the future technical direction for their assigned functional and technical space. This role partners with Technology and Business leaders as well as Business Solution Architects, Technologists, and external service providers to ensure technologies align with stated architecture strategies and Medtronic's standards and delivery capabilities. This role mentors other Medtronic employees to develop architecture, structure strategic planning and subject matter expertise.

Leads initiatives and contributes to key deliverables including:

• Technology strategy and blueprints to support digital health related quality systems.
• Technology architecture standards, patterns & reference models
• Technology vendor assessments
• Technology roadmaps and standards maintenance
• Project-level Architecture Definition Documents (technical components)
• Quality related data management and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Metrics data management

The Senior Principal Technical Architect is a key leader in the identification of risks & opportunities with technical landscape, identifying and researching emerging technologies while creating technology and/or platform strategies. This role also acts as a key leader and contributor in the technical community of practice activities (e.g., proposing and driving evolutions of templates, processes, and execution models).

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

• Defines, describes, diagrams and documents the role and interaction of the high-level technological and human components that combine to provide cost effective and innovative solutions to meet evolving business needs.
• Promotes, guides and governs good architectural practice through the application of well-defined, proven technology and human interaction patterns and through architecture mentorship.
• Provides thought leadership and drives the technology aspects of solution architecture design, implementation, and modification activities within their domain across projects and teams in collaboration with Quality and IT leaders
• Design quality data management in alignment with business requirements. Communicates and leads meetings with internal and external customers and vendors, conducts briefings to higher level management team.
• Responsible for architecting data structures to facilitate monitoring of product quality throughout product lifecycle
• Responsible for interfacing with R&D teams to facilitate and implement digital health related quality systems.
• Creating applications implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to create rapid insights and predictions for quality related data
• Supporting management in creating data reports and dashboards for key metrics, monitoring of strategic initiatives and projects.
• Researches emerging trends within their domain recommending and leading proof of concepts to influence an informed selection and adoption of technology.
• Ensures adherence to the Medtronic guidelines and standards for creating, maintaining, and delivering architect artifacts.
• Creates current and target architecture designs for complex solutions leveraging approved standards and patterns in partnership with the architects in adjacent solution domains.
• Coaches architects and technologists to develop architecture recommendations for general business needs.
  
  

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required
• Requires a University Degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience

Nice to Have

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.

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: Oct 22, 2021
• Travel: Yes, < 25 % of the Time