Job Description

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

The Coronary and Renal Denervation (CRDN) Operating Unit is dedicated to transforming care for patients with coronary artery disease and hypertension. We combine innovative devices, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence to support clinicians and improve patient outcomes worldwide. The work you do will impact patients globally and help support Medtronic’s mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life.

The Senior Principal System Architect – Digital Ecosystem provides senior technical leadership for CRDN’s connected digital products and platforms. This role is responsible for establishing a shared digital ecosystem architecture that enables multiple products to scale safely, securely, and consistently within a regulated medical device environment.

Operating at a system‑of‑systems and platform level, the architect guides architectural decisions that span products, technologies, and organizational boundaries. The role balances near‑term product delivery needs with longer‑term ecosystem evolution, bringing clarity, structure, and technical judgment to complex, cross‑functional decisions.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of:

In this role, you establish and maintain a CRDN digital ecosystem reference architecture that product teams can use to guide real delivery decisions, while shaping its evolution over time. You work closely with CRDN R&D, Digital Product, and enterprise partners to define shared architectural patterns and platform capabilities that support multiple products and avoid fragmentation. You lead architectural discussions and trade off decisions when priorities conflict across products, timelines, or enterprise standards.

This role focuses on architectural coherence and outcomes, not direct ownership of delivery teams or individual product implementations.

Key Skills & Experience

Ecosystem & Platform Architecture

• Define and evolve the CRDN digital ecosystem reference architecture across connected systems, platforms, and services
• Operate at a system‑of‑systems level, ensuring products contribute to a cohesive ecosystem rather than isolated solutions
• Establish architectural principles, standards, and interfaces that enable consistency while supporting product team execution

Architectural Leadership & Alignment

• Provide senior technical leadership with architectural decision authority for cross‑product and cross‑platform trade offs
• Lead architecture reviews and decision discussions, offering clear recommendations in ambiguous or conflicting situations
• Align CRDN product teams, Global IT, and enterprise stakeholders around shared architectural direction and outcomes

Platform Capabilities & Non‑Functional Requirements

• Guide architectural approaches for software lifecycle management, connectivity, and system observability across products
• Ensure data and platform capabilities support product needs while meeting privacy, security, and regulatory expectations
• Embed cybersecurity, quality, and safety considerations into ecosystem‑level architectural decisions

Quality, Safety & Regulatory Alignment

• Ensure ecosystem architecture supports applicable medical device software and system standards
• Assess and communicate the impact of architectural decisions on product risk, compliance, and verification strategies
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, and Security teams to ensure decisions are traceable and defensible

Collaboration & Organizational Impact

• Collaborate with engineering, product, IT, and external partners to guide shared architectural approaches
• Promote architectural reuse, consistency, and continuous improvement across CRDN
• Contribute to broader digital transformation efforts by shaping how ecosystem capabilities are conceived and adopted

What Success Looks Like

• A clearly adopted CRDN digital ecosystem reference architecture guiding product decisions
• Reduced fragmentation and duplication across digital products through shared architectural approaches
• Improved alignment and decision clarity across engineering, product, IT, and quality partners
• Digital ecosystem capabilities that enable product delivery without compromising safety, quality, or regulatory compliance
• A durable architectural foundation that supports both current products and future growth

Qualifications- MUST HAVE - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software, Computer, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of relevant experience (8+ with MS and 6+ with PhD) in systems, platform, or ecosystem architecture
• Experience designing and evolving edge ‑to ‑cloud or connected system architectures
• Experience with software updates, fleet/device management, telemetry pipelines, or IoT ‑style systems
• Understanding of medical device software quality, safety, and regulatory expectations and how architectural decisions impact compliance and risk
• Experience designing secure, distributed systems, including identity management, encryption, and secure communications
• Hands ‑on experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Experience working in agile, cross ‑functional product teams
• Strong communication, influence, and technical decision ‑making skills

Nice to Have

• Background in regulated or safety‑critical software development (e.g., IEC 62304, ISO 14971)
• Familiarity with healthcare data privacy concepts and regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR principles)
• Experience enabling analytics or AI/ML capabilities in product systems
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools (e.g., LeanIX, Bizzdesign, ValueBlue)
• Understanding of clinical workflows or healthcare data usage

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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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. 

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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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 94,720.00 EUR - 142,080.00 EUR | This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).