Distinguished Engineer-Software Architect

Distinguished Engineer – Software Architect for Information Systems and Services (ISS)

Careers that Change Lives

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The Cardiovascular 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 Management (CRM) offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms, as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions.

As a Software Solution Architect, you will be responsible for architecting the software capabilities of the full technology stack for CRM’s CareLink Information System. This software supports clinicians across 90+ geographies for in-clinical implant, follow-up and remote monitoring. In this role, you will be reporting to Engineering Director – Software & Systems, the leader for Cardiac Rhythm Management at MEIC with a deep alignment to the Architecture and Technology team of the Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure (CRHF) R&D organization.

You will be defining the vision and driving the realization of robust software in the context of DevOps based software delivery. You will provide leadership and architectural direction to engineering teams to ensure speed, quality, and compliance. You will continuously drive software improvements by leveraging state-of-the-art methodologies, standards and tools, acting as a conduit of progressive external and internal thinking. Your perspective will be broad, incorporating system level design thinking and arriving at solution approach for complex technical problems across software development life cycle.

A Day in the Life

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Define and communicate the technology vision and direction for product technology platform, technical roadmap, product features in the Information Systems platform, the architecture to enable it, and the steps to realization.

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Provides well-informed recommendations with multiple options / choices through Research study, POCs / prototypes, concept based white papers, other means of establishing validated learning in critical aspects of technology frameworks, architecture and design.

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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.

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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.

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Own and drive authoring domain specific technical white papers and file patents; Fosters technical innovation culture across the organization.

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Demonstrate ownership and accountability of platform / solution architecture and design to build scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.

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Collaborate with other architects and engineering teams across Ous to understand and drive the organization’s business requirements in-line with product target architecture and build engineering innovation culture across portfolios.

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Evaluate and improve tools, technologies, patterns and framework used in software development.

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Enable compliance with internal and external Architectural, Design, Coding and Testing standards.

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Share software best practices, architectural principles, concepts and define standards for the team to build consistent and maintainable code and reusable frameworks.

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Serve as technical voice for current and future-state software development practices with internal and external stakeholders.

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Contribute to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, and operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.

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Create visibility into the state of software through feedback loops and metrics.

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Consult with others to leverage what exists and obtain feedback towards continuous improvement.

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Familiar with Medical Devices Regulatory Standards, ex. IEC62304, ISO 13485 (QMS). 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 PCS software 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 ISS 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 its practices.

• Define POC’s to evaluate new services and capabilities; participate in development and review of code that creates and runs CareLink.

• Work with DevOps teams to deliver, deploy, and operate the platform and solutions software.

Qualification:

• B-Tech / BE in Computer Science / Electronics or equivalent with 22+ years of experience in Software organizations involved in full end to end full stack architecture, design and development.

• ME / M-Tech in Computer Science / Electronics or equivalent with 20+ years of experience in Software organizations involved in full end to end full stack architecture, design and development.

Skills & Experience:

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Solution architecture, Systems Design, Design Patterns, and frameworks implementation knowledge for enterprise solutions.

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Should be hands on defining UML, Object-oriented analysis / design, High-Level and Low-Level Design (HLD / LLD) documents.

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Expert in MicroServices, Containerization and Microsoft technology stack.

• Strong programming skills in C#,.NET And/Or C, C++, Web Services, REST protocols for software design, development, debug and test practices including Test Driven Development (TDD).

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Strong experience in UI technologies like Angular, React, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, BootStrap.

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Should have knowledge in designing and implementing secure solutions.

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Should have experience in cross platform development, ex. iOS, Android, Windows.

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Familiarity with multi-threading, synchronous and asynchronous programming.

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Good Understanding or experience with Agile methodologies and process.

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Should have deeper understanding on Web Based applications design, remote procedure calls, distributed computing and apply those concepts to Product development.

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Should be familiar with network security protocols (TLS/SSL)

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Should be familiar with configuration management tools (TFS/AzDo/Github).

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Experience with modern software engineering practices, Agile, and DevOps.

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Experience in deployment automation and Continuous Integration / Continuous Testing / Continuous Delivery (CI/CT/CD).

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Experience making architecture-level decisions that span teams, applications, and technologies with demonstrable improvements in the quality and speed of an engineering organization output.

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Strong written and oral communication skills working with diverse audiences in both software development and Product Management.

Nice to Have:

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Experience at factoring operational cost into infrastructure, architecture, and service decisions.

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Experience working with application development in the healthcare domains of an FDA regulated environment.

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Experience with clinical domain systems and standards (e.g. Epic, Cerner, HL7, FHIR).

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12+ years in technical lead / Architect roles for software development teams building mission critical mobile and cloud applications in an environment applying modern engineering practices.

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Excellent attitude and aptitude with demonstrated strategic mindset that can drive change.

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Strong Leadership skills and mentoring capabilities.

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Experience with Cloud native architecture and Azure DevOps.

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Experience working with geographically distributed teams.

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Design/test experience with regulated medical devices.

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Experience with large-scale organizational transformation.

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Hands on experience on Product Secruity including threat modeling, defense in depth.

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Knowledge on real time integration with Process Automation tools / techniques, Deep Learning AI prediction / prescription models.

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Working Knowledge of Six-Sigma principles is plus.

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 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.

The physical demands described within the Day in the Life 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.

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