Senior Principal Enterprise Software Engineer

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The Cardiac and Vascular Group brings all 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 and Heart Failure offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms, as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions.

As the Device Managers Architect of Software Architecture and Technology, you will be reporting to the leader of the Architecture and Technology team of the Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure (CRHF) R&D organization. You will be driving the architecture of the components and services of our Cloud Technologies layer, making decisions on open source, and purchased software underpinning both platforms and applications.  These platforms and applications are the software basis of Medtronic’s offerings that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for over 1.6M patients in 80 geographies using web, mobile and proprietary device clients providing data from implanted devices.

• Sets the architectural vision, design, and technology choices for the components and services of our Device Managers, making decisions on open source and purchased software underpinning both platforms and applications.
• Provides well informed recommendations with multiple options using POCs and other means of establishing validated learning in critical aspects  of the architecture and design.
• Identifies and documents technical risks and strategies for mitigation.
• Gains support and approval for architecture and design, this often involves collaboration with other architects and development teams.
• Delivers and maintains architecture documents and presentations needed for review and team guidance.
• 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.
• Establish patterns, practices and standards that enable teams to work more independently while maintaining integrity of the system.
• Collaborates with Product Owners, HFUX, Systems Engineers, fellow Architects, and technical leaders, to define solutions to market requirements.
• Works with other teams in the formulation and review of their work, providing critical thinking and additional options that improve the work of the wider team.
• Works with Product Leaders to define vision by providing a voice of technical possibility, feasibility, and sequencing options.
• Plans R&D or system projects or strategic functional initiatives and recommends technological application projects / solutions to accomplish medium-term to long-range objectives.
• Expected to guide or lead business unit in new technical directions.
• Recognized technical authority and innovator in field of expertise and / or resource within the field by peers within the organization.
• Author technical papers and/or file patents; Fosters technical innovation.
• 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.

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.

 Responsibilities may also include the following.

• ·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.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering or another technical field
• Requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant    experience
•   Proficient in two or more of the following:C/C++/C#, Java, Java script/Scripting
•   Proficient at architecting, building, and deploying systems on Mobile computing platform such as iPad, Android, & embedded Linux