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** 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 the Software Architect for Device Managers, 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 driving the software architecture and technology choices for specific products, 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. **Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned** + Define and communicate the architecture for all aspects of CRM software, the architecture to enable it, and the steps to realization. + Demonstrate accountability of platform / solution architecture and design to build scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions. + Collaborate with other architects and engineering teams to understand and drive the organization’s business requirements in-line with product target architecture. + Evaluate and improve tools, technologies, patterns and framework used in software development. + Enable compliance with internal and external Architectural, Design, Coding and Testing standards. + Share software best practices, architectural principles, concepts and define standards for the team to build consistent and maintainable code and reusable frameworks. + Research and propose tool and technology choices. + Serve as technical voice for current and future-state software development practices with internal and external stakeholders. + 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. + Create visibility into the state of software through feedback loops and metrics. + Consult with others to leverage what exists and obtain feedback towards continuous improvement. + Familiarize yourself with Medical Devices Regulatory Standards, ex. IEC62304, ISO 13485(QMS) + 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 Device Managers 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. + Designs, develops, documents, tests, maintains, and debugs applications software and systems. + 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. + Work with DevOps teams to deliver, deploy, and operate the platform and solutions software. **Required Knowledge and Experience** + B-Tech / BE 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. + ME / M-Tech in Computer Science / Electronics or equivalent with 18+ years of experience in Software organizations involved in full end to end full stack architecture, design and development. + Solution architecture, Systems Design, Design Patterns, and frameworks implementation knowledge for enterprise solutions. + Should be hands on defining UML, Object-oriented analysis / design, High-Level and Low-Level Design (HLD / LLD) documents. + 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). + Should have experience in UI technologies like HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, BootStrap. + Should have knowledge in designing and implementing secure solutions. + Should have experience in cross platform development , ex. iOS, Android,Windows. + Familiarity with multi-threading, synchronous and asynchronous programming. + Good Understanding or experience with Agile methodologies and process. + Should be able to understand Web based applications design, remote procedure calls, distributed computing and apply those concepts to Product development. + Should be familiar with network security protocols(TLS/SSL). + Should be familiar with configuration management tools (TFS/AzDo/Github). + Experience with modern software engineering practices, Agile, and DevOps. + Experience in deployment automation and Continuous Integration / Continuous Testing / Continuous Delivery (CI/CT/CD). + Experience making architecture-level decisions that span teams, applications, and technologies with demonstrable improvements in the quality and speed of an engineering organization’s output. + Strong written and oral communication skills working with diverse audiences in both software development and Product Management. **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. **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) 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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