Senior Principal Data Architect

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations. Our Purpose  At Medtronic Patient Care Systems (PCS), we power the digital heartbeat behind life-saving cardiac therapies. We build the connected ecosystem that enables clinicians to monitor, manage, and protect millions of patients living with implantable cardiac devices around the world. From secure device connectivity and real-time data platforms to intelligent clinical tools and patient-facing experiences, PCS transforms complex cardiac data into clarity, helping physicians make faster decisions, improving outcomes, and giving patients greater confidence in their care. Every line of code we write supports someone’s parent, spouse, child, or friend. Our work ensures that life-saving therapies are not only delivered safely and reliably, but continuously improved through innovation, insight, and global scale. If you want to build technology that truly matters, where uptime means peace of mind and innovation means more birthdays, join us. Together, we are shaping the future of connected cardiac care and changing lives every single day Come for a job, stay for a career! A Day in The Life Of: The Patient Care Systems portfolio develops and delivers connected technologies, data platforms, and interoperability capabilities that support clinical workflows and patient care across healthcare settings. The Data Architecture function enables scalable, secure, and compliant data solutions that support product innovation, clinical data exchange, analytics, and regulatory requirements across a complex healthcare ecosystem. As a Senior Principal Data Architect, you will provide technical leadership for enterprise-scale healthcare data platforms, interoperability solutions, and data architecture strategy within the Patient Care Systems ecosystem . You will collaborate across product, engineering, architecture, security, privacy, and regulatory teams to define and deliver scalable data capabilities that enable clinical data exchange, analytics, and digital health solutions while maintaining alignment with business objectives and architectural standards.

Work with the Platform Data Architect to enable architectural vision, design, and technology choices for the data solutions in the Patient Care Systems ecosystem. Work with the Product Manager to define aspects of user story acceptance criteria and the prioritization of the Architecture Runway. Provide well-informed recommendations with multiple options using POCs and other means of establishing validated learning in critical aspects of architecture and design. Identify and document technical risks/debt and strategies for mitigation. Gain support and approval for architecture and design; this often involves collaboration with corporate security entities and platform teams. Deliver and maintain architecture documents and presentations needed for review and team guidance Accountable for technical viability of quality solutions that work with the given cost, scope, and schedule while maximizing progress toward the vision and balancing technical debt. Collaborate with Product Owners, HFUX, Systems Engineers, Architects, and peers to define solutions to market requirements. Work with other teams in the formulation and review of their work, providing critical thinking and additional options that improve the work of the wider team.