Do you have a passion to transform organizations from data driven to value driven? Would you like to work in an environment where your technical abilities will be challenged on every project? If so, you will be a great addition to Medtronic Diabetes Data and Analytics team. We are seeking a Principal IT Architect – Data Engineering to build high quality, scalable and resilient distributed systems that power Medtronic Diabetes analytics platform and data pipelines.

Careers that Change Lives

As a Principal IT Architect – Data Engineering, you will be a hands-on technical leader who designs and delivers Data Warehousing and/or lakehouse Solution for Diabetes operating unit.

Our mission drives the need to be a highly skilled, flexible, extremely efficient, versatile, and agile in software product development for the benefit of our patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in need of intensive insulin therapy.

Diabetes impacts over 500 million people around the world — that’s roughly one in 10 adults. That means you probably know someone affected by this disease. At Medtronic, our Diabetes Operating Unit focuses on improving the lives of those within the global diabetes community. As a business, we strive to empower people with diabetes to live life on their terms by delivering innovation that truly matters and providing support in the ways they need it. We’re committed to meeting people with diabetes where they are in their journey, always with an aim to make their lives easier. Our portfolio of innovative solutions is designed to provide customers greater freedom and better health, helping them achieve better glucose control, while spending less time managing their disease.

What you will do :

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

• Build, schedule, and manage data movement from application origin through batch and streaming systems to make it available for key business decisions.
• Ensure data products are aligned with the rapidly evolving needs of business.
• Utilize programming languages like Scala, Python and Open-Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases and Cloud based data warehousing services such as Redshift and Snowflake
• Design and build highly scalable data pipelines using Spark, Kafka to ingest data from various systems.
• Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• 7 years of IT experience with bachelor’s in science, engineering or technical field or 5 years of data engineering experience with advance/master degree
• 5 years of hands-on experience in designing Spark pipeline with Scala
• 3+ years in designing Airflow pipelines and deployment in Prod
• 2+ year in managing SAAS based Privacy tools
• 3+ years of experience in designing CI/CD pipelines either with Jenkins or Git actions.
• 3+ years hands on experience in AWS EMR, S3, Glue or Hive metastore, EC2, Lambda, Presto/Athena, kinesis/Kafka
• 3+ Years’ experience in processing Parquet, Avro or ORC file formats
• 1+ Years’ experience in Snowflake and snowflake integration with Spark
• 4+ years of experience with version control repository
• 4+ years of experience with UNIX/Linux basic commands and shell scripting
• Experience designing and implementing different data warehousing technologies and approaches, such as RDBMS and NoSQL, Kimball vs. Inmon, etc. and how to apply them.
• Knowledge of unified analytics platform like Databricks is a big plus.
• 1+ year experience working with data science team to deploy ML models.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

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. (ADA-United States of America)

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. Learn more about our benefits here .

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) on page 6 here .

The provided base salary range is used nationally (except in certain CA locations). The rate offered is compliant with federal/local regulations and may vary by experience, certification/education, market conditions, location, etc.