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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

Change begins with you. We look for bold ideas and fresh insights — that's what drives innovation. Come drive the future of healthcare with us.

The **Enabling Technologies** business of Medtronic brings our navigation, imaging, robotics, powered surgical, and advanced energy technologies 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.

Role Overview:

The Senior Principal Web-Based Software Architect is responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of scalable, secure, and high-performance web-based software solutions across the enterprise. This role sets technical direction, defines architectural standards, and ensures alignment with business strategy and user experience goals.

Key Responsibilities:

+ **Architectural Leadership:**

+ Define and communicate the architectural vision for web-based platforms, ensuring consistency, scalability, and maintainability.

+ Lead the evaluation and selection of technologies, frameworks, and tools for web application development.

+ Oversee the integration of cloud-based and SaaS solutions, ensuring robust interoperability and data security.

+ **Technical Strategy & Execution:**

+ Collaborate with product management, engineering, and quality teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

+ Develop and maintain architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for web applications.

+ Guide teams in behavior-driven development (BDD), test automation, and modern software engineering practices.

+ **Portfolio & Platform Oversight:**

+ Provide technical leadership across multiple projects and product lines, ensuring adherence to architectural rails and optimizing clinical user experience.

+ Eliminate duplication and drive reuse of common building blocks across software and hardware architecture.

+ **Mentorship & Collaboration:**

+ Mentor software engineers and junior architects, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

+ Facilitate technical exchanges and knowledge sharing across teams and with external partners.

+ **Governance & Compliance:**

+ Ensure solutions comply with internal standards, regulatory requirements, and security policies.

+ Lead risk assessments and drive initiatives to accelerate compliance-related collateral using AI and automation.

Required Qualifications:

+ Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience

+ Master's degree with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience OR PhD with 6 years relevant experience.

Onsite

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. We’re working onsite 4 days a week to drive performance, foster an environment of belonging, and collaborate to inspire as we engineer the extraordinary.

Nice to Haves

Skills required to be successful:

+ Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

+ 10+ years of experience in software architecture, with a focus on web-based and cloud-native applications.

+ Proven expertise in modern web technologies (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Angular, Node.js), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and SaaS integration.

+ Strong understanding of systems engineering, integration, and user experience optimization.

+ Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex technical projects.

Desired Skills:

+ Experience with behavior-driven development (BDD) and test automation frameworks.

+ Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance in healthcare or regulated industries.

+ Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

+ Expertise in the medical device industry or in the surgery field.

+ Expertise in developing and managing high-performing teams.

+ Expertise in Systems Engineering process and principals applied to software, hardware, and complex system design.

+ Expertise in using tools and models that facilitate system design.

+ Expertise in applying medical device regulations to product design.

+ Expertise in requirements development and safety risk management practices for medical device design.

+ Expertise in robotic-assisted surgery, computer-assisted surgery, anatomical imaging, powered drill, and/or radio frequency instrumentation technologies.

+ Expertise in planning and conducting user evaluations of product designs, analyzing data, documenting evaluation methods and results, and presenting design recommendations to product teams.

+ Expertise with software design and iterative (Agile) software development practices.

+ Expertise with hardware design.

+ Ability to provide creativity while solving complex problems without known solutions.

+ Ability to quickly prototype new concepts and ideas.

+ Ability to assess new technologies via comprehensive reviews of the state-of-the-art.

+ Good at communicating complex technical opportunities, challenges, and other information to project and organizational leaders in a concise but thorough fashion.

+ Skill in project management including leading a technical team as well as planning and estimation of tasks, milestones, resources, and budget.

+ Strong leadership skills and mentoring capabilities.

+ Strong ability to drive change – including design practices and processes – throughout the organization.

+ Ability to work with individuals from different geographic locations and cultures.

+ Ability to adapt to evolving business needs and technology trends.

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 Responsibilities 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. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$169,600.00 - $254,400.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans (https://www3.benefitsolver.com/benefits/BenefitSolverView?page\_name=signon&co\_num=30601&co\_affid=medtronic)

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 95,000+ 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 (http://www.medtronic.com) .

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here (https://www.medtronic.com/content/dam/medtronic-wide/public/united-states/employee-support-services/careers/la-county-legal-notice.pdf) a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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 95,000+ 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.

**We change lives** . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

**We build extraordinary solutions as one team** . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

**This life-changing career is yours to engineer** . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

+ **Build** a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

+ **Grow** a career reflective of your passion and abilities

+ **Connect** to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

**Experiences that put people first** . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

**Life-transforming technologies** . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

**Better outcomes for our world** . Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

**Insight-driven care** . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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