Associate 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.
- Develops, documents, and configures systems specifications that conform to defined architecture standards, address business requirements, and processes.
- Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting hardware and software compliance and security standards.
- Evaluates interface between hardware and software, operational requirements and characteristics of overall system.
- Establishes and documents system design, parameters and formats, ensures hardware and software systems functionality, performance and compatibility, and coordinates and/or modifies system parameters in terms of configurations, such as existing and projected computer capacity and capabilities.
- Actively identifies system functionality or performance deficiencies, executes changes to existing systems, and tests functionality of the system to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data handling, data integrity, conversion, input/output requirements, and storage.
- May document testing and maintenance of system updates, modifications, and configurations.
- May act as a liaison with key technology vendor technologists or other business functions.
- Function Specific: Strategically design technology solutions that meets the needs and goals of the company and its customers/users.
- Leverages platform process expertise to assess if existing standard platform functionality will solve a business problem or customization solution would be required.
- Gather and prioritize integration requirements.
- Test the quality of a product and its ability to perform a task or solve a problems.
- Perform basic maintenance and performance optimization procedures in each of the primary operating systems.
- Technology: Using computational thinking to define technological solutions to real life problems.
- Design technology that allows for the optimal user experience and broad accessibility.
- Ability to document detailed technical system specifications based on business system requirements.

**SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM**:Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects - from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

**DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS**

**Autonomy**:Entry-level individual contributor on a project or work team.
Works with close supervision.

**Organizational Impact**:Delivers work of limited scope, typically smaller, less complex projects or related activities.

**Innovation and Complexity**:Identifies, defines and addresses problems that are not immediately evident but typically not difficult or complex.
Makes minor changes in systems and processes to solve problems.

**Communication and Influence**:Communicates primarily with internal contacts within immediate group.
Contacts others to gather, confirm and convey information.

**Leadership and Talent Management**:N / A - job at this level is focused on self-development.

**Required Knowledge and Experience**:Requires broad theoretical job knowledge typically obtained through advanced education.
0+ years of experience with a high school diploma or equivalent.

**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, buil