At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Change begins with you. We look for bold ideas and fresh insights thats what drives innovation. Come drive the future of healthcare with us.

The Enabling Technologies business of Medtronic brings our navigation imaging robotics powered surgical and advanced energy technologies 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.

Role Overview:
The Senior Principal Web-Based Software Architect is responsible for leading the design development and implementation of scalable secure and high-performance web-based software solutions across the enterprise. This role sets technical direction defines architectural standards and ensures alignment with business strategy and user experience goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architectural Leadership:

  • Define and communicate the architectural vision for web-based platforms ensuring consistency scalability and maintainability.

  • Lead the evaluation and selection of technologies frameworks and tools for web application development.

  • Oversee the integration of cloud-based and SaaS solutions ensuring robust interoperability and data security.

• Technical Strategy & Execution:

  • Collaborate with product management engineering and quality teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

  • Develop and maintain architectural standards patterns and best practices for web applications.

  • Guide teams in behavior-driven development (BDD) test automation and modern software engineering practices.

• Portfolio & Platform Oversight:

  • Provide technical leadership across multiple projects and product lines ensuring adherence to architectural rails and optimizing clinical user experience.

  • Eliminate duplication and drive reuse of common building blocks across software and hardware architecture.

• Mentorship & Collaboration:

  • Mentor software engineers and junior architects fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

  • Facilitate technical exchanges and knowledge sharing across teams and with external partners.

• Governance & Compliance:

  • Ensure solutions comply with internal standards regulatory requirements and security policies.

  • Lead risk assessments and drive initiatives to accelerate compliance-related collateral using AI and automation.

Required Qualifications:

• Baccalaureate degreeand minimum of 10 years of relevant experience

• Masters degree with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience OR PhD with 6 years relevant experience.

Onsite

At Medtronic we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. Were working onsite 4 days a week to drive performance foster an environment of belonging and collaborate to inspire as we engineer the extraordinary.

Nice to Haves

Skills required to be successful:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related field.

• 10 years of experience in software architecture with a focus on web-based and cloud-native applications.

• Proven expertise in modern web technologies (e.g. JavaScript/TypeScript React Angular ) cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and SaaS integration.

• Strong understanding of systems engineering integration and user experience optimization.

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex technical projects.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with behavior-driven development (BDD) and test automation frameworks.

• Knowledge of data governance security and compliance in healthcare or regulated industries.

• Excellent communication leadership and stakeholder management skills.

• Expertise in the medical device industry or in the surgery field.

• Expertise in developing and managing high-performing teams.

• Expertise in Systems Engineering process and principals applied to software hardware and complex system design.

• Expertise in using tools and models that facilitate system design.

• Expertise in applying medical device regulations to product design.

• Expertise in requirements development and safety risk management practices for medical device design.

• Expertise in robotic-assisted surgery computer-assisted surgery anatomical imaging powered drill and/or radio frequency instrumentation technologies.

• Expertise in planning and conducting user evaluations of product designs analyzing data documenting evaluation methods and results and presenting design recommendations to product teams.

• Expertise with software design and iterative (Agile) software development practices.

• Expertise with hardware design.

• Ability to provide creativity while solving complex problems without known solutions.

• Ability to quickly prototype new concepts and ideas.

• Ability to assess new technologies via comprehensive reviews of the state-of-the-art.

• Good at communicating complex technical opportunities challenges and other information to project and organizational leaders in a concise but thorough fashion.

• Skill in project management including leading a technical team as well as planning and estimation of tasks milestones resources and budget.

• Strong leadership skills and mentoring capabilities.

• Strong ability to drive change including design practices and processes throughout the organization.

• Ability to work with individuals from different geographic locations and cultures.

• Ability to adapt to evolving business needs and technology trends.

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.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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 95000 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.

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 addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.