Job Description

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 Life At Medtronic, we push the limits of technology to make tomorrow better than today, which 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 a Principal Software/Data engineer, you will be a part of our data engineering team responsible for deploying, monitoring, and supporting the data mart platform. In addition, you will be responsible for creating tools and automating operational tasks to integrate the data platform with external systems. This position will participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to ensure platform uptime.
Your entrepreneurial mindset and technical skills will be used, creating solutions that meet business needs and optimize customer experience directly impacting the organization and affecting the lives of millions.
We believe that when people from diverse 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.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Work independently under no/limited supervision
• Implement CI/CD patterns for deploying and administering the data platform
• Setup proactive monitoring and alerting
• Create automation to enable a self-service model for developers
• Troubleshoot production issues
• Use platform metrics to provide guidance on right-sizing infrastructure
• Work with IT and business partners to identify opportunities to improve existing processes
• Mentor and guide junior engineers

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in Data Engineering, or advanced degree with 7 years of relevant experience in Data Engineering.
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience automating routine tasks
• Strong written and verbal communication & presentation skills
• Technical leadership experience
• Ability to take business requirements and work independently to deliver solutions using industry best-practice
• Strong security and data-privacy mindset
• Core Python experience (Mandatory)
• Hands-on Experience using PySpark and other Bigdata Technologies like HDFS, Hive, etc.
• Hands-on experience using Job Orchestration tools Preferably Airflow.
• Strong Expertise in writing SQL Queries.
• 2 - 4 yrs of experience in AWS and AWS native tools S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR , Athena, Step Functions and other AWS Services
• Performance Tuning of Data pipeline Jobs
• Mentoring Junior Developers within the team.
• Spearheading internal and cross-functional initiatives.
• Source Control systems Git/GitHub experience
• Working knowledge on container technologies like Docker, Docker-compose and Kubernetes
• Ability to thrive in dynamic environments
• Working experience in CI/CD process and tools like Azure DevOps

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

Skills Required