Senior Cybersecurity Specialist - Internal Risk

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 We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cybersecurity Specialist to join our cybersecurity team. In this role, you will be responsible for the identification, assessment, and mitigation of cybersecurity risks across the organization. As a senior member of the team, you will provide expertise in risk management, compliance, and security strategy, while also playing a key role in driving initiatives to ensure the protection of sensitive data, particularly in a highly regulated healthcare environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate and enhance our cybersecurity posture, ensuring adherence to relevant regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, and other industry standards. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. Leads internal cybersecurity risk assessments from intake and scoping through analysis, treatment, acceptance or escalation, monitoring, reassessment, and closure. Identifies and documents risk scenarios involving assets, business processes, data, systems, services, suppliers, threats, vulnerabilities, control weaknesses, dependencies, and potential consequences. Evaluates inherent and residual risk using defensible qualitative, semi-quantitative, and quantitative methods, including FAIR or comparable cyber-risk quantification when appropriate. Reviews security architecture, data flows, system descriptions, technical designs, control narratives, audit reports, penetration-test results, vulnerability information, incident history, and third-party assurance evidence. Assesses security control design and operating effectiveness across identity and access management, vulnerability management, secure configuration, logging and monitoring, encryption, backup and recovery, software development, cloud security, data protection, incident response, and resilience. Maintains accurate, complete, and audit-ready risk records, including risk statements, evidence, scoring rationale, control mappings, treatment plans, accountable owners, milestones, decisions, and next-review dates. Facilitates risk-owner decisions, documents exceptions and compensating controls, and escalates material, high, critical, systemic, or aggregating risks through the GRC governance process. Creates and tracks Risk Treatments/Issues and remediation tasks and coordinates related intake, vulnerability, asset, incident, and issue data across enterprise systems. Monitors changes in threats, vulnerabilities, incidents, control performance, technology, business context, M&A activity, and regulatory requirements that may trigger reassessment. Develops risk metrics and reporting for risk owners, GRC leadership, executive stakeholders, governance forums, auditors, and regulators. Applies NIST CSF 2.0, NIST RMF, NIST SP 800-30, ISO/IEC 27005, ISO 31000, FAIR, COBIT, COSO ERM, and comparable methods to support risk-based decision-making. Improves GRC processes through standardized processes, reusable evidence, control mappings, automation, workflow design, integrations, data-quality practices, and continuous improvement. Collaborate with teams across various departments, including IT, legal, compliance, and product security, to identify, assess, and mitigate cybersecurity risks across a broad range of products and services, ensuring security is integrated throughout the entire product lifecycle and operational processes. Required Knowledge and Experience:    7+ years of IT experience with a Bachelor's Degree in