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Our Purpose
At Medtronic Patient Care Systems (PCS), we power the digital heartbeat behind life-saving cardiac therapies. We build the connected ecosystem that enables clinicians to monitor, manage, and protect millions of patients living with implantable cardiac devices around the world.
From secure device connectivity and real-time data platforms to intelligent clinical tools and patient-facing experiences, PCS transforms complex cardiac data into clarity, helping physicians make faster decisions, improving outcomes, and giving patients greater confidence in their care.
Every line of code we write supports someone’s parent, spouse, child, or friend. Our work ensures that life-saving therapies are not only delivered safely and reliably, but continuously improved through innovation, insight, and global scale.
If you want to build technology that truly matters, where uptime means peace of mind and innovation means more birthdays, join us. Together, we are shaping the future of connected cardiac care and changing lives every single day
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The Patient Care Systems portfolio develops and delivers connected technologies, data platforms, and interoperability capabilities that support clinical workflows and patient care across healthcare settings. The Data Architecture function enables scalable, secure, and compliant data solutions that support product innovation, clinical data exchange, analytics, and regulatory requirements across a complex healthcare ecosystem.
As a Senior Principal Data Architect, you will provide technical leadership for enterprise-scale healthcare data platforms, interoperability solutions, and data architecture strategy within the Patient Care Systems ecosystem. You will collaborate across product, engineering, architecture, security, privacy, and regulatory teams to define and deliver scalable data capabilities that enable clinical data exchange, analytics, and digital health solutions while maintaining alignment with business objectives and architectural standards.
Work with the Platform Data Architect to enable architectural vision, design, and technology choices for the data solutions in the Patient Care Systems ecosystem.Work with the Product Manager to define aspects of user story acceptance criteria and the prioritization of the Architecture Runway.Provide well-informed recommendations with multiple options using POCs and other means of establishing validated learning in critical aspects of architecture and design.Identify and document technical risks/debt and strategies for mitigation.Gain support and approval for architecture and design; this often involves collaboration with corporate security entities and platform teams.Deliver and maintain architecture documents and presentations needed for review and team guidanceAccountable 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.Collaborate with Product Owners, HFUX, Systems Engineers, Architects, and peers to define solutions to market requirements.Work 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.Work with Product Leaders to define vision by providing a voice of technical possibility, feasibility, and sequencing options.Collaborate with Privacy, Security and Regulatory entities regarding the technical impact of emerging and existing legislation with data implications (e.g. EU Data Act, GDPR, HIPAA)Analyze and define internal and external customer requirements and mapping rules for clinical data exchange through a variety of data acquisition channelsCollaborate with offshore and onsite development and build quality products supporting Agile activities ensuring deliverables meet both quality and performance standardsParticipate in Agile grooming, planning, retrospectives, design reviews and user acceptanceIdentify ways to transform & enrich data to enhance the business value of the data by implementing approaches to meet the business needs, while leveraging reusable and scalable solutionsBuild and advance collaborative relationships with business partners, product managers and IT partnersStay current on latest technologies, evolving HL7 standards and changesStrive to be a thought leader and advanced practitioner in data integration and interoperabilityDelivery:
Demonstrate strong communication and customer management skillsServe as a technical evangelist regarding data platform capabilities.Bring a clear data influence on the culture, patterns, practices, and tooling of software delivery with Agile and DevOps foundations.Engages with the persistent teams through Agile/Scrum ceremonies including and Scrum planning, stand ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives as appropriateEngages with the larger data architecture team to ensure alignment across the Patient Care Systems ecosystem of hardware and softwareEnforces the use of patterns, practices, and standards that enable teams to work more independently.Balances data with cost and capability assessments to support experiences designedWorks with persistent teams to adapt the design based on early sprints and other learningsGuides the teams in leveraging established standards, patterns, and practices for deliveryAccountable for delivery of features into productionDesign, develop, document, test, maintain, and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutionsConduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.Determine computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems.
