Senior IT Technologist - Cranial and Spinal Technologies IT

About the role

The person in this role will work from the Medtronic facility located in Rice Creek, Minnesota. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result—and everyone wins.

Responsibilities

• Develops, documents, and configures systems specifications that conform to defined architecture standards, address business requirements, and processes.
• Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting hardware and software compliance and security standards.
• Evaluates interface between hardware and software, operational requirements and characteristics of overall system.
• Establishes and documents system design, parameters and formats, ensures hardware and software systems functionality, performance and compatibility, and coordinates and/or modifies system parameters in terms of configurations, such as existing and projected computing capacity and capabilities.
• Identifies system functionality or performance deficiencies, executes changes to existing systems, and tests functionality of the system to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data handling, data integrity, conversion, input/output requirements, and storage.
• Documents testing and maintenance of system updates, modifications, and configurations.
• Acts as a liaison with key technology vendor technologists or other business functions.
• Defines and owns platform security compliance, meets performance benchmarks, improves user experience and efficiency by providing technical leadership and guidance.
• Navigate challenges within large IT organization by reaching and coordinating multiple cross functional teams.
• Influence technical direction and constructively challenge existing approaches to improve outcomes for the improvement of the system and the organization.

Key Accountabilities (first 6-12 Months)

• Improve platform stability and performance under peak transaction volumes.
• Reduce reliance on vendor-led technical decisions by strengthening internal architecture ownership.
• Modernize integrations and improve efficiency across enterprise systems.
• Enhance deployment speed and quality through automation and CI/CD improvements.
• Improve SDLC efficiency and delivery velocity using AI tools and optimizing processes by working with Medtronic and vendor teams.

MUST HAVE (Minimum Qualifications)

• A high school diploma (or equivalent) and 4+ years of experience.
• Previous Medtronic experience strongly preferred.
• Proven experience designing and scaling enterprise applications under high volume and performance demands.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent), including performance optimization and cost management.
• Deep understanding of API design, system integration, and distributed architecture patterns.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automation, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience in working with AI tools and knowledge in market leading AI tools and capabilities.
• Experience in working with enterprise platform in leading performance improvements and AI adoption.
• Experience in working with large IT organization and expertise in working with cross functional teams.
• Hands-on experience owning production systems at scale (high transaction volume, multi-region environments).
• Solid experience in system design, application architecture, and integration concepts (APIs, data flows).
• Experience working in cloud-based environments and managing application performance and reliability (implied from responsibilities).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and lead technical initiatives with minimal supervision.
• Experience with SAP Commerce Cloud and AWS cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Java, React, and modern application development frameworks.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, application monitoring, and cloud configuration practices.
• Experience leading security, performance, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Understanding of e-commerce platforms, architecture, and domain concepts.

BEST QUALIFICATIONS

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.

Physical Job Requirements

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 & 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.