Senior Principal Architect - AWS

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 7 Nov 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

Own the end-to-end serverless architecture for ingesting, validating, processing, and storing diabetes data (PHI) from connected devices, mobile apps, and clinical systems. Mentor engineers and elevate engineering practices across teams.

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.

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:

Design multi-channel ingestion using AWS serverless patterns:

• API Gateway + Lambda for app/API traffic
• Event-driven workflows with EventBridge, Step Functions, SQS/SNS for decoupling, retries, and DLQs
• Streaming pipelines via Kinesis Data Streams/Firehose; define schemas, versioning, and replay strategies
• Define processing pipelines in Lambda/Step Functions (and EMR/Spark if   needed for large transforms):
• Normalize, validate, deduplicate, and enrich time-series data (CGM/insulin events), handle clock skew, units, and data quality rules.
• Implement idempotent handlers, backpressure controls, and at- least/exactly-once semantics where appropriate
• Expose secure APIs via API Gateway with OAuth2/OIDC, fine-grained  scopes, consent-aware access, and full auditability 

Architect Storage And Data Models:

• DynamoDB for high-throughput operational workloads (session/state,  telemetry indexes, consent/access metadata); design keys, GSIs, TTLs, and global tables as needed.
• Amazon DocumentDB for semi-structured clinical/event documents; define collections, indexes, and consistency/read/write strategies.
• Amazon Redshift for analytics and longitudinal studies; model distribution/sort keys, data marts, and federated queries (Athena/Redshift Spectrum).
• Amazon S3 as the data lake (raw/curated zones) with lifecycle policies, compression/columnar formats (Parquet), and Glue Data Catalog for discovery

Implement security, privacy, and compliance by design:

• PHI safeguards: encryption at rest/in transit (KMS, TLS), least‑privilege   IAM, VPC isolation, PrivateLink/VPC endpoints, WAF/Shield as applicable.
• Secrets and key management (Secrets Manager/KMS), rotation policies, and tamper-evident audit trails (CloudTrail, Config).Ensure reliability, observability, and performance:
•  Define SLOs (ingestion latency, freshness) and build resilient, multi‑AZ  serverless designs with retries, DLQs, and circuit breakers
• Instrument metrics/logs/traces (CloudWatch, X‑Ray), alarms and runbooks; conduct load/performance and chaos/resilience testing.
• Optimize cold starts, concurrency, and throughput; apply caching and batching patterns when appropriate 

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, showback/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

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.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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