Software Engineering Manger

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 LifeAs a Software Manager working at Medtronic, you will be a leader contributing to the Software functional area. This involves building and managing a highly engaged team of engineers to ensure that they are positioned for growth and success.

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

• Lead a team of engineers that design and develop software applications for medical devices (Web, Mobile, Desktop).
• Day to Day technical management includes sprint backlog management, assignment management, and tracking team deliverable to the projects
• Represent your team to the wider software organization.
• Partner with the greater R&D organization (quality, systems, etc.)
• Build sustainable processes for product development.
• Drive best practices within your functional area.
• Remove barriers for the team.
• Participate in design reviews.
• Mentor and coach your team members.
• Engineers create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. Combine the best of your experience with training and mentorship to move your career forward. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide.
• If you are a pioneer and would like to have a big impact into the new world of medical robotics – then come join our team!

Required knowledge and experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of relevant experience in software development, with a proven track record of delivering successful software projects.
• 5+ years of experience in software development within the medical device or regulated industry, demonstrating a deep understanding of regulatory requirements.
• Experience managing a cross-functional engineering team of 15+ members, with a proven ability to lead and motivate teams.
• Strong understanding of enterprise application (desktop, mobile, cloud) development and V&V, with a comprehensive knowledge of relevant technologies and methodologies.
• Proven ability to manage projects within a matrix reporting structure, demonstrating strong organizational and project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to blend people management and technical expertise, with a passion for both leading teams and solving complex technical challenges.
• Experience mentoring and coaching software engineers, with a commitment to fostering their professional growth.
• Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  Nice to have:
• As an ideal candidate, you will have any or all the following experience:
• Technical management experience in leading and building platform and enterprise application software development team in the fast-paced R&D environment, deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and its best practice in medical device or similar regulated industry, experience, and strong focus on team’s career development.
• Experience in developing and commercializing software products in R&D environment, including understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and best practices in the medical device industry, experience in providing post product support.
• Experience leading software development continuous process improvement activities.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) in a regulated environment.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Experience with test-driven development (TDD), automated testing and design documentation.
• Understanding and appreciation of SDLC process and tools (e.g. JIRA, GIT, TFS.)
• Experience performing risk management analysis of software ideally using SW FMEA techniques.
• Experience in providing guidance, coaching, and training to other software engineers in software development technologies and best practices.
  PRINCIPAL WORKING RELATIONSHIPS 
• The incumbent would work with the project management office to ensure that resource forecasts, project metrics are correctly captured and presented to the leadership
• Frequent interaction with team members from other disciplines, cross functional teams, to understand project requirements and to adhere to project schedules. 
• Possible interaction with clinicians, third-party vendors, manufacturers, and subcontractors.

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