Senior IT Technologist

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

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
 

The Sr IT Technologist role is responsible for delivering data solutions aligned with business capability needs and enterprise standards. This role works with Data & Analytics Solution Architects, Data Architects, and external service providers to ensure data models, code, and other technologies align with stated architecture strategies, Medtronic’s standards and delivery capabilities.  In a delivery capacity, this role will work with Business Analysts to review and complete business capability needs, definitions, and requirements, data analysis, data modeling, technical specification writing, and working with development organizations to ensure designs are delivered. 

• Consult with business and technology (application, infrastructure) development projects to fit systems and desired information outcomes to business capability needs, identify when it is necessary to modify the solution architecture to accommodate project needs. 
• Understand business requirements and data models, determine implementation strategy, and translate into code that conforms to best practices and standards. Works with and advises stakeholders, project teams, and peers in areas assigned on project needs and design. 
• Generate Data Model, ETL, and ELT specifications to support business requirements. 
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.  Debug, tune and optimize code/data pipelines for optimal performance.  
• Estimate work effort for development and enhancement requests supporting individual projects and broader team and enterprise strategies. 
• Understand and use standard tools, processes, designs, and methodologies for project management, documentation, system development, and implementation. 
• Provide technical leadership to more junior level technologists 
• Perform design and code reviews, perform code reviews when selected, and support reviewers as requested.  
• Ensure all delivery is aligned to Medtronic standards and best practices 
• Ensure adherence to the defined IT governance activities associated with the Solution Selection Policy (i.e., architecture boards, governance councils) & and project delivery (i.e. Demand Evaluation, Curation Review Board) 
• Partner with Project Managers to ensure delivery is in alignment with stated scope and deliverables for projects.  
• Ensure Medtronic's systems and information are protected in accordance with Medtronic's Information Protection Policies and Standards, as well as best Information Protection practices. 

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• 8+ years of relevant experience aligned to data engineering & analytics development
• 3+ years of experience with cloud-based solutions (e.g., applications (SaaS), platforms (PaaS), and infrastructure (IaaS)) within an Enterprise environment
• Experience on Oracle, PL/SQL, Snowflake, AWS S3,Git, Informatica Cloud Integration Services (IICS), Data Build Tool (DBT), Agile/Scrum, Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI)
• You are a hands-on, pro-active professional who can keep oversight of complex processes 
• Future target end state is Snowflake, but you at least have experience with Oracle databases, data warehouses, data modelling, ETL and BI 
• You have significant experience with SQL, e.g. you are able to develop new ETL procedures and fine-tune existing SQL code for efficiency and maintenance reasons 
• You are flexible and pragmatic, problem solving mindset 
• You have the ability to work independently with minimal supervision required 
• You are a team player 
• Excellent English communication skills (verbal & written)
• You are willing to work overlap hours with US as most stakeholders are US based

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 90,000+ 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