Engineering Director – Software & Systems

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 LifeThe Engineering R&D function at Medtronic Engineering & Innovation Centre, Hyderabad encompasses design, development, and Verification activities during NPD and Sustaining phases (Released Product Engineering / Management) of product lifecycle.
The Engineering Director Software & Systems would be accountable to sustain and enhance the Engineering function through the product lifecycle at MEIC for the various Operating Unit(s) of the Cardiovascular Portfolio. The Vision for this role is to ‘Accelerate Innovation and create unsurpassed value for the Organization’ through technology and product engineering. This individual would be accountable to direct the overall provision of services, policies, and programs in product/process engineering to ensure superior performance and delivery on commitments to the Operating Units. The role will focus on building end to end Software and Systems engineering capabilities at the R&D center. The individual would also be responsible for directing efforts in sustaining & enhancing functional domain verticals in Software Engineering and Verification, DevOps, Product Security, Data Engineering, Electrical and System Engineering, Research and Technology and other related product/process engineering aspects. The individual would be working and collaborating as required with cross functional teams like Program Management, Quality, Regulatory, Global Operations and Global IT at MEIC/ across enterprise. The individual would also lead efforts in planning and execution of all infrastructure needs which would include Labs, Servers, and Tools required for efficient execution of Projects delivered by his/ her team. The individual shall be able to guide, direct Associate Engineering Director/Sr. Engineering Managers, Engineering Managers, Sr Principal/ Principal Engineers/ Principal Architects with diverse skill sets.
The role requirement for the current & potential partnerships with OUs would require:
• Experience in leading large, complex, cross functional engineering teams.
• Experience in software development life cycle including SaMD and capital equipment.
• Product development experience; preferably in Medical device and MNC
• Cross functional knowledge from regulatory and compliance perspective
• Experience / critical exposure in product security/Internet of Things/ Data Science
The individual would have functional reporting to the Senior Engineering Director Software and Systems, MEIC and would be on Staff/ attend staff meetings of VPs of R & D for the OU and work with Global R & D and cross functional Leaders across multiple OUs in the Cardiovascular portfolio.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Works with Sr Director SW & Systems in formulating vision and strategy in collaboration with the global Operating Unit leadership, sustaining / initiating - growing engagements with the Global R&D Units
• Leads his/ her team in delivering on commitments, creating solutions, accelerating innovation with focus on engineering excellence
• Develops and maintains a deep technical understanding of OUs product lines and technologies
• Collaborates with Director of software in building software excellence in Cardiovascular Portfolio partnerships/programs
• Defines the engineering skill sets that best align to OUs needs and creates a staffing strategy
• Builds a superior team; establishes and maintains a high-performance culture
• Sets clear, aggressive departmental goals, expectations, and standards for performance
• Develops and institutionalizes world-class product engineering practices and policies
• Continually improves team product knowledge and technical skills
• Develops a departmental budget and manages expenses in line with organizational objectives; approves departmental expenditures including capital and manpower expenses
• Works with HR to develops career paths for employees, provides coaching, recommends retention policies, and conducts salary planning for department staff
• Collaborates with the Program Management Office project planning including scope definition, resource allocation, scheduling, and communication
• Drives successful project execution working collaboratively with Program / project Managers; provides leadership to teams when faced with technical challenges, critical trade-off decisions, and other project obstacles
• Reviews work output to ensure project objectives and quality standards are being achieved
• Communicates departmental status and project reports to upper management as required
• Ensures all policies and procedures comply with Medtronic quality system and ethical standards
• Would be accountable to meet Organizational level Goals: OHS & Ethics

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

• Autonomy: Manages department (s) or small unit that includes multiple teams led by Senior Managers/ Managers. Provides motivational leadership for the area of responsibility. Provides thought and technical leadership. Performs work without appreciable direction.
• Organizational Impact: Leads the development of the strategy for own department or business area, ensuring links to the company’s aims and objectives. Management authority to make large business decisions and strategic decisions. Decisions impact the financial performance, employees, or public image of the operational unit and/or company. Would have budget accountability for a department, broad functional area.
• Innovation and Complexity: Drives innovation across the business area, encouraging best practice and knowledge sharing. Significantly improves, changes or adapts own department or business area’s processes, systems, products or services. Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
• Leadership and Talent Management: Directs and leads a department, broad functional area or geography, including one or more teams led by Senior Managers / managers. Determines supervisory relationships, and creates workforce and staffing plans to accomplish business results .
• Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires broad management and leadership knowledge to lead multiple job areas, and detailed functional and operational expertise. Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.
• Business Communication : Requires ability to be articulate and able to efficiently communicate with senior leaderships
   

PRINCIPAL WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

The individual would work closely with other cross functional teams to ensure proper communication, resource management, and skill development across departments.  Builds trusting relationships with Global R&D and MEIC leadership including regional and corporate organizations where needed; is the primary contact for the Engineering R&D function for the OU(s). He/ she would also be accountable for Relationship Management with all stakeholders internal at MEIC, Operating Units, ISC and APAC regional leaders and also with external stakeholders (Academia/ KOLs/ Government /Innovation Hubs etc).

• Minimum of 18+ years of applicable work experience in a Product, Software Product engineering R&D role in a global team environment
• Management experience in enhancing -leading Global Capability Centers in Engineering R&D. Prior experience in a large MNC preferred
• Prior experience of minimum 3 years in managing  Senior Engineering managers and being in a Strategic Leadership role with accountability of larger software, systems teams
• Minimum of 8 years of hands-on software development critical experience in implementing large to medium complex software architectures (Cloud/Web/Mobile apps )
• Proven experience in managing large, complex technology initiatives of strategic importance to the organization involving cross-functional teams.
• Experience owning, supervising and delivering concurrent software releases using iterative/agile techniques, ensuring on-time delivery and good quality.
• Prior experience working with cross –cultural teamwork experience is preferred

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITY:

• Demonstrated expertise in the field of product development and product engineering
• Experience leading a product development project from concept to commercialization desirable
• Proven track record identifying and executing complex engineering projects
• Ability to build and lead a new department within a large, diverse MNC; includes strategic development and implementation
• Ability to author policies, procedures and coach new employees
• Experience in the areas of design for six sigma, Quality through design and Systems Engineering
• Strong technical background with exposure to mechanical, electronics, and software engineering
• Experience with hardware / software quality and reliability testing
• Experience in Firmware development and must be comfortable with SW development practices and models
• Demonstrated success executing complex engineering projects with diverse technical teams
• Management of globally dispersed teams preferred
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, negotiating; managing change; goal setting; planning and organizing teamwork; ability to address difficult situations
• Must possess managerial courage; must be confident managing risks and making decisions that will likely have a large impact on organizational objectives
• Good financial acumen
• Demonstrated experience managing a large, diverse technical department with budgetary responsibility
• Must have leadership skills and personal strength to protect projects from unsubstantial change requests while ensuring project focus remains in place
• Fluency in English
• 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
• Up to 15 % travel

EDUCATION

Required

• BS degree in engineering
• MS degree in engineering

Preferred

• MBA
• Certification in Systems Engineering/ Six sigma practices/PMP is desired

SHORT-TERM SUCCESS METRICS (6-12 MONTHS)

• Trusting relationships with Global R&D Operating Unit(s), Technology Development Centers, engineering and cross functional leadership is established
• Trusted relationship with MEIC Leadership team is established
• Deep understanding of related Medtronic products and technologies
• Implement product development & Verification engineering practices and policies
• Develop key relationships with Industries, Test Houses and Institutes
• Enhance design, execution rigor across Projects
• Identify/ hire key Sr Engineering/ Engineering Manager(s) for Project execution in line with Strategy & Structure
• Establish measurement metrics for his/ her team and Project execution
• Talent Development & Attrition rates below a defined %
• OHS & Ethics Survey Results aligned with MEIC Goals

LONG-TERM SUCCESS METRICS (1+ YEAR)

• Value Addition
• OHS & Ethics survey Results aligned with MEIC Goals
• QBRs and actions
• Number of projects successfully completed
• Positive contribution to product quality
• Talent Development & Attrition rates below a defined %
• Enterprise Excellence Metrics Defined and measured

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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