[Hiring] Senior Principal Systems Administrator / Architect @Medtronic

Role Description

In this role, you would serve as the technical lead for Polarion and related engineering systems, supporting both the setup and ongoing maintenance of on-prem or AWS-hosted environments. You would partner with internal stakeholders and external vendors to:

• Design, implement, and integrate solutions
• Handle basic scripting, infrastructure support, and troubleshooting
• Drive tool consolidation
• Support implementation efforts
• Ensure engineering teams have the systems, documentation, and technical support they need to work efficiently

IT Infrastructure & Administration:

• Installs, operates, manages, and maintains hardware and/or software, including administrator and service accounts
• Maintenance of system documentation, tuning system performance, backup/recovery, and other planned configuration changes
• Interacts with users and other stakeholders to plan and implement changes and deliver support across all R&D teams
• Contributes to evaluation and recommendations for vendor products
• Manages and monitors policies and standards for the use of computing resources
• Executes on programs and projects within a specific IT function

Qualifications

• Requires a technical Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
• Deep experience with Polarion or a comparable ALM platform, including basic scripting/customization
• Ability to set up, maintain, and support on-prem or AWS-hosted server environments
• Strong background building and supporting engineering systems infrastructure
• Proven vendor management and third-party implementation leadership
• Medtronic systems validation or other regulated validation experience
• Background in medical device, healthcare technology, or similarly regulated environments
• Knowledge of requirements management and testing workflows
• Experience with vendor selection, contract coordination, and implementation oversight
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required

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

Benefits

• Competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• Wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage
• Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD): $147,200.00 - $220,800.00
• Eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP)
• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)