Senior Principal Systems Architect

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• 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
• Promote continuous improvement using tools and practices such as Agile, Scrum
• Interfacing with mechanical, electrical, systems, and test engineers.
• Enable compliance with internal and external standards
• Reports to Sr. Engineering Manager or Engineering Manager.
• Frequent interaction with Global stake holders, Software Developers, team members from other disciplines, particularly SWQA, SW V&V engineers, to develop software test requirements and other project artifacts. Possible interaction with third-party vendors, subcontractors and other users.
• Evaluate functional and performance impact of proposed design changes related to enhancements, cost-down, and component end-of-life issues and others.
• Employ Model Based Systems Engineering best practices to document and communicate system design changes.
• Oversee, and be deeply acquainted with, regulated development processes and standards for risk management, usability, and safety to ensure systems design changes and documentation meet relevant safety and regulatory standards.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to junior engineers.
• Track and communicate status of deliverables.
• Occasional domestic and international travel may be required.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

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

Skills & Experience

• Medical Device Industry or related experience
• Expertise in Embedded C/C++ in RTOS development environment.
• Hands on experience in Embedded / Firmware Device Driver.
• Experience in hardware/software interfacing and design issues required.
• Participate in System design, coordination with teams and internal product management
• Experience with change control, requirements management, source code control
• Perform Code Reviews, Static Code Analysis, Dynamic Code Analysis
• Generate Software Metrics for Unit Testing, Integration Testing
• Strong interpersonal, presentation, and organizational skills Works collaboratively with software engineers, and SW QA.  Flexible in working under changing and different work settings and work in different time zones
• Experience working in regulated environments and delivering new products in compliance with global regulatory standards
• Prior experience Principaling the development of FDA Class I, II and III Medical Device systems
• Prior experience with and working understanding of complex embedded systems and software
• Eight Core Competencies: Intellectual Horsepower, Technical Ability, Team Building, Identifying and Developing Talent, Dealing with Ambiguity/Change, Manage Diverse Relationships, Organizational Ability, Comfort Around Higher Management
• Strong Principalship skills and mentoring capabilities.
• Ability to work in a team environment and directly contribute to its success.

Nice to Have

• Experience with designing for the Hardware/Firmware and wireless interfaces of electronic devices with user-centric design practices

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.

TECHNICAL SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: An individual contributor with responsibility in our technical functions to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies. Formulates, delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering R&D, systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

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.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires mastery level knowledge of specialty area and working knowledge of several other areas, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
May have deep knowledge of project management.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

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