IT Architect

**Careers that Change Lives**

At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

As Principle Database Architect, you will be a part of our Global DBA team responsible for providing design and support. The Database Architect role is pivotal in establishing our Database As A Service model for cloud-based and on premise database deployments.

The Database Architect works as a part of a team of database architects, solution architects, engineers and business customers to bring industry best practices to database design, provisioning, automation, security, reliability and availability. This role will work with a Global IT team to engineer solutions to complex business problems while leveraging open source and traditional databases.

Your commitment to drive and managing high quality execution, operational excellence and delivering technology solutions that meet business needs and optimize customer experience will have a direct impact on the organization, and ultimately, affect the lives of millions.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

**A Day in the Life**
- Participate in a Global team of Database Architects, Engineers and Administrators to provide technical solution to projects that engage MDT database platforms.
- Provide hands on technical support across the various on premise and cloud-based database offerings.
- Participate in the design of our Database As A Service solutions for cloud-based database offerings.
- Participate in the design of our automated provisioning solutions for on premise and cloud-based database offerings using modern automation tools.
- Partner with various IT Infrastructure teams and to fulfill project needs while providing exceptional customer outcomes.
- Provide experience with database monitoring technologies for on premise and cloud-based databases including SQL Studio, Solarwinds, RDS Console and CloudWatch.
- Provide experience with desktop client tools including MongoDB Database Tools, PGAdmin, DBeaver, HeidiSQL, Navicat, SQL Developer, SQL Studio, Toad, etc.
- Provide experience with database security products and techniques including auditing, encryption, virtual private databases, row level security, etc.
- Provide experience with enterprise backup and recovery tools and techniques for providing full, incremental, online, offline and transaction log backups.
- Work well with IT teams and Business Partners to identify and implement opportunities to improve database performance, reliability, scalability and availability.
- Willingness to contribute, learn and grow as a member of a team that supports a variety of technologies.

**Must Have: Minimum Requirements**
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Minimum of 4+ years **Hadoop **database experience as Architect, Engineer or Administrator, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience with open source or cloud-based databases.

**Nice to Have
**- Recent experience with Apache Hadoop versions 3.4 and 3.3
- Recent experience with MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, SQL Server or Oracle databases in addition to Hadoop.
- Recent experience with capacity planning and estimating the requirements for the Hadoop clusters.
- Recent experience deployin Hadoop clusters using Apache source or distribution sources like Cloudera.
- Recent experience managing the size of Hadoop clusters based on the data to be stored in HDFS.
- Ability to manage and review Hadoop log files.
- Recent experience with IAM tools and automated security provisioning for on premise and cloud-based database technologies.
- Recent experience with automated database provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
- Recent experience with scripting languages like MongoDB Shell, Perl, PowerShell, BASH, KSH, etc.
- Recent experience with coding languages Java, Python, Javascript and SQL
- Recent experience provisioning databases on Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2 or Amazon RDS.
- Recent experience with modern backup approaches and tools including Netbackup or Data Domain for on premise and cloud-based databases.
- Recent experience with DevOps and software engineering technologies _. _
- Proficiency in Unix, Linux and Windows Server operating systems
- Knowledge of SQL commands for data retrieval and manipulation
- Understanding of various DBMS types (i.e., relational, columnar, non-relational)
- Proficiency in installation, configuration, and maintenance of different DBMS platforms
- Proficiency in data migration between different database systems

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