Senior Software Engineering Manager - CRM

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.

About the role

Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Device Embedded System (DES) organization develops the next generation medical technologies that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of patients across the world. Join the PCS Software data services leadership team, where our charter is to build and develop high-performing data engineering teams to ensure products and programs are appropriately resourced and ensure continuous improvement in technical capability, process and compliance within our software ecosystem—including Information Systems Shared Services.

We seek a highly motivated, accountable software leader who is passionate about improving reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of data services. This leader will foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, accountability, and collaboration that advances engineering excellence, supports clinicians, and improves patients’ quality of life.

In this role, you will lead the data services software organization. As a Senior Manager, you will own multi-year plans to build and develop high-performing teams. You will manage engineering activities to ensure overall product quality, team staffing, and budget management. You will partner with Product Managers, Program Managers, Architects, and business leaders to prioritize investments and deliver measurable customer value. This role requires both strategic leadership and the ability to operate effectively in a highly dynamic, reactive environment—demonstrating technical depth, agility, and resilience.

This position is in Mounds View, MN within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) unit. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop high-performing Data Engineering teams through coaching, mentoring, hiring, and talent development.
• Manage activities to assure programs are appropriately resourced and ensure continuous improvement in technical capability, process, and compliance.
• Establish engineering best practices for quality, observability, security, automation, and operational excellence.
• Partner with Product Managers, Program Managers, Architects, and business leaders to prioritize investments and deliver measurable customer value.
• Champion modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, automated testing, and data quality engineering.
• Improve platform reliability, performance, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, accountability, and collaboration.
• Lead the RPE bedside monitor software organization, including Medtronic engineers, contractors, and software vendors.
• Own product capability and release roadmaps, with accountability for planning, execution, and delivery within business-aligned budgets.
• Ensure Tier 2 customer product support remains a top priority.
• Partner closely with PCS Product Management to prioritize backlogs and shape them into executable multi-year roadmaps and release plans.
• Directly manage a team of 5–8 engineers and technicians, including performance management, compensation planning, career development, and ongoing coaching and feedback.
• Drive initiatives addressing software technology advancements, component obsolescence, and product continuity, while ensuring compliance with software, cybersecurity, and regulatory standards.
• Maintain strong, collaborative relationships with external software and technology vendors to ensure alignment, quality delivery, and long-term partnership success.
• Engage regularly with business leaders and engineering peers to ensure alignment on product roadmaps, capabilities, and execution strategies in support of evolving business needs.

Requirements

MUST HAVE - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or math and minimum of 7 years of technical work experience OR advanced degree in science, technology, engineering, or math, with 5 years of technical experience and 5 years of demonstrated managerial experience.

Qualifications

Nice to Have:

• Experience in Med-Tech.
• Experience as an embedded SW Leader or developer.
• Ability to manage geographically distributed SW development teams.
• Business acumen: ability to think from a patient-first and overall “what’s best for the business” perspective.
• Experience leading Data Services and Data Engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud data ecosystems (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with distributed data processing, ETL/ELT, streaming platforms, data lakes/lakehouses, APIs, and microservices.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, Delta Lake, Airflow, dbt, or similar platforms.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Schedule

This role is on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration.

Benefits

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, and 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.

• 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
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans (Medtronic Incentive Plan - MIP)
• 401(k) retirement plan

Pay

Salary ranges for U.S (excluding PR) locations (USD): $175,200.00 - $262,800.00. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location.