Senior Principal Software Engineer

Senior Principal Software Engineer – Software Architect for Device Managers

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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 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.

A Day in the Life

• 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)

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 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.

Responsibilities may also include the following.

• 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.

Qualification:

• 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.

Skills & Experience:

• 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.

Nice to Have:

• Experience at factoring operational cost into infrastructure, architecture, and service decisions.
• Experience working with application development in the healthcare domains of an FDA regulated environment.
• Experience with clinical domain systems and standards (e.g. Epic, Cerner, HL7, FHIR).
• 10+ years in technical lead / Architect roles for software development teams building mission critical mobile and cloud applications in an environment applying modern engineering practices.
• Excellent attitude and aptitude with demonstrated strategic mindset that can drive change.
• Strong Leadership skills and mentoring capabilities.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
• Experience with large-scale organizational transformation.
• Hands on experience on Product Secruity including threat modeling, defense in depth.
• Knowledge on real time integration with Process Automation tools / techniques, Deep Learning AI prediction / prescription models.
• Working Knowledge of Six-Sigma principles is plus.