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 LifeData engineers are mainly tasked with transforming data into a format that can be easily analyzed and extract relevant and actionable (business) insights. They do this by developing, maintaining, and testing infrastructures for data generation. Data engineers work closely with data scientists/Machine Learning researchers and are largely in charge of architecting solutions for them that enable them to do their jobs.Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned
Design & Build Data Pipelines: Architect, implement, and optimize ETL/ELT processes to ingest data from various sources (databases, APIs, streaming systems).
- Data Modeling: Develop and maintain logical and physical data models in data warehouses/lakes like AWS S3 & Athena or Oracle.
- Deploy and manage data infrastructure on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) using IaC tools to ensure scalability, reliability and cost efficiency.
- Data Quality & Governance: Implement data validation, monitoring, and alerting frameworks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and security of data assets.
- Collaboration & Documentation: Understand requirements, translate business needs into technical solutions, and document data schemas, pipeline designs, and best practices.
- Explore and integrate innovative data tools, including LLMs and agentic systems, into the existing data ecosystem to enhance analytics and automation.
Required Knowledge and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering or related roles
- Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures, and data sets
- Strong understanding of ETL/ELT concepts and best practices
- Experience using LLMs and agentic tools for process automation
- Proficient in SQL and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
- Experience with big data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Hadoop)
- Hands-on experience with cloud data services (e.g., AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, GCP Dataflow)
- Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python (required), Scala, or Java
- Comfortable with shell scripting and command-line tools (e.g., Bash, CLI)
- Experience with version control systems, especially Git, including Git user interfaces (e.g., GitHub, GitLab)
- Experience with data transformation, metadata management, dependencies, and workload orchestration
- Knowledge of data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Customer-focused mindset with the ability to adapt to evolving needs
- Collaborative, proactive, and able to build trust with both internal and external stakeholders
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex, large-scale problems
- Curious, resilient, and motivated to continuously improve and explore new solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with real-time data streaming.
- Understanding of data privacy and security standards (GDPR, HIPAA).
- Exposure to BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI) and dashboard development.
- Certification in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Data Analytics, Google Professional Data Engineer, Azure Data Engineer Associate).
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.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).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, 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
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering or related roles
- Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures, and data sets
- Strong understanding of ETL/ELT concepts and best practices
- Proficient in SQL and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
- Experience with big data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Hadoop)
- Hands-on experience with cloud data services (e.g., AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, GCP Dataflow)
- Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python
- Experience with version control systems, especially Git
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Medtronic Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Medtronic and has not been reviewed or approved by Medtronic.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid leave for birthing and non-birthing parents is positioned as notably generous, with additional Family Care Leave available for a range of caregiving needs. Fertility, adoption, donor, and surrogacy support adds depth for different paths to family-building.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan are presented as meaningful long-term savings tools. Scholarship and tuition programs further reinforce financial security beyond salary.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage is consistently described as a strong part of the total rewards package. Mental health resources, critical illness coverage, and wellness supports broaden the overall health offering.
Medtronic Insights
What We Do
Medtronic is a global healthcare solutions company operating in approximately 160 countries. We are committed to improving lives through our medical technologies, services, and solutions. Since our beginning, 60 years ago, our Mission has remained the same: to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for people around the world. The Mission is our ethical framework and inspirational goal guiding our day-to-day work. It reminds us that our efforts are transforming millions of lives each year. To meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals around the globe, we operate from more than 370 locations in approximately 160 countries.
