Senior Principal Architect - IOT

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 24 Oct 2025

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day In The Life

Lead the architecture and ongoing optimization of a secure, compliant, and cost-efficient IoT platform for diabetes data on AWS. Own standards, paved paths, and reference implementations for custom telemetry ingestion, event-driven processing, and serverless data stores (DynamoDB, Amazon DocumentDB), exposing REST/HTTP APIs. Lead FinOps across teams to balance cost, performance, and reliability.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

Developer enablement and governance

• Define and maintain reference architectures, patterns, and reusable IaC modules; run design reviews/ADRs and architecture office hours.
• Coach teams on data modeling, event-driven/serverless patterns, threat modeling, and performance testing; contribute reference code and runbooks.

Telemetry ingestion and streaming

• Architect secure HTTPS/TCP gateways behind ALB/NLB with mTLS, schema validation, and rate limits; use Kinesis/MSK for buffering/ordering.
• Implement backpressure, retries, idempotency, DLQs, and replay/redrive workflows. Standardize error handling and replay patterns; maintain strong observability (traces, metrics, logs) with CloudWatch and X-Ray.

Data modeling and storage

• DynamoDB: single-table design, well-chosen partition keys/GSIs, TTL, Streams-to-S3 for archival/analytics.
• DocumentDB: schema/index strategy, right-sizing/elastic clusters, retention and backup policies; tier cold data to S3 with lifecycle rules.

Apis And Access

• APIs and access Provide secure, scalable REST/HTTP APIs via Amazon API, with expert-level AWS Lambda integrations (sync/async patterns, Lambda authorizers, cold-start mitigation, memory/CPU power tuning, and reserved/provisioned concurrency). Integrate OIDC with enterprise IdP; enforce fine‑grained, tenant‑aware authorization and audit trails; apply rate limits, caching, usage plans, and canary deployments for performance and cost control.
• Implement multi-tenant isolation, consent-based data access, PHI minimization, and comprehensive auditing.

Security, privacy, and compliance

• Least-privilege IAM, KMS encryption, private networking (VPC endpoints/PrivateLink), WAF/Shield, GuardDuty/Security Hub; align to HIPAA/HITRUST and audit readiness.

Finops Leadership

• Own unit economics (per million messages, per API call, per active device), forecasts, and variance analysis.
• Tagging/Cost Categories, CUR dashboards (Athena/QuickSight), Budgets/Anomaly Detection, show back/chargeback; service-level cost playbooks (DynamoDB capacity/table class, DocumentDB rightsizing, Lambda power tuning, log retention, NAT/data transfer reductions), and Savings Plans/RI strategy.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience OR PhD with 6 years relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional; AWS Security Specialty; FinOps Certified Practitioner/Professional.
• Experience with healthcare data standards (e.g., FHIR) and consent management.
• Proven cost-aware designs for multi-region/data residency and DR.
• 10+ years in cloud/application/infrastructure architecture with 4+ years on AWS.
• 2+ years hands-on FinOps experience owning production workload costs.
• Experience building custom telemetry ingestion at scale (ALB/NLB endpoints, API Gateway, Kinesis/MSK) and event-driven processing (Lambda/Step Functions/EventBridge).
• Strong DynamoDB modeling and cost tuning; Amazon DocumentDB sizing and optimization.
• Proficiency with AWS Billing & Cost Management, CUR/Athena/QuickSight, Cost Explorer, Budgets, Anomaly Detection, Trusted Advisor, Compute Optimizer.
• IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK), CI/CD, and one or more languages (Python/TypeScript).
• Security/compliance experience with PHI (HIPAA/HITRUST) and audit support.

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. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: 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. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$164,800.00 - $247,200.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

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