IT Solution Architect (EurAsia)

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

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications to achieve long-term sustainable impact.

Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.

Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare. Join us for a career in IT that changes lives. Medtronic is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture. Check out the accomplishments of our Women in IT group!

The Global Pricing and Contracting IT team, partners with several of the largest functions in our organization, including our commercial pricing & contracting teams to build and grow systems to leapfrog the competition using rapidly evolving artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to set customer prices and create effective contracts.

Our work matters because it is the insights gained from our systems that unlocks Medtronic’s ability to maximize revenue and grow market share through effective price & contracting strategy. Learning this space is a pathway to nearly any commercial role you may have interest in as you will quickly learn the business, get exposure to our products and product data, and learn how we go-to-market globally.

As the EurAsia Pricing & Contracting IT Solution Architect, you will design and Offer Development and Tender Management capabilities for EurAsia. You’ll partner with regional stakeholders to align business needs with IT solution architecture, ensuring seamless end-to-end integration and automation across the Pricing & Contracting landscape. In this role, you will receive direction from and align your work with the Chief Architect to drive consistency across the global architecture.

• Solution Architect: Design and integrate Offer Development and Tender Management solutions across pricing and contracting systems.
• Trusted Advisor: Bridge the gap between Pricing & Contracting and IT, ensuring stakeholders understand how solutions and data drive business decisions.
• Translator: Convert business needs into technical solution architecture plans.  Clearly explaini solution implementation plans to business and IT stakeholders.
• Discovery & Documentation: Lead discovery sessions, gather requirements and ensure thorough documentation.
• Compliance Oversight: Ensure all solutions comply with regulatory and data privacy standards.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for improvement and deliver more efficient ways of working.
• Team Player: Participate in agile meetings, especially when high level architecture decisions are needed. Works closely with Business Analysts to ensure solutions give value to the business and are aligned with the broader Architecture strategy.
• Business Learner: Build a strong understanding of Medtronic’s products, customers, and markets.
• Value Advocate: Analyze Offer Development and Tender Management processes, championing IT solutions that deliver value for customers and patients.
• Discovery & Documentation: Lead discovery sessions, gather requirements and ensure thorough documentation.
• Compliance Oversight: Ensure all solutions comply with regulatory and data privacy standards.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for improvement and deliver more efficient ways of working.

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

• Defines, describes, diagrams and documents the role and interaction of the high-level technological and human components that combine to provide cost effective and innovative solutions to meet evolving business needs.
• Promotes, guides and governs good architectural practice through the application of well-defined, proven technology and human interaction patterns and through architecture mentorship.
• Supports the full lifecycle management of the entire IT portfolio including the selection, appropriate usage, enhancement and replacement of information technology applications, infrastructure and services.

Specialist Career Stream:

Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results.  May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals.  The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

Differentiating Factors

• Autonomy: Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager.
• Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level specialists.

Organizational Impact: Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.

May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation.

Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.

Implements solutions to problems.

Communication and Influence: Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.

May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: Typically provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.

Typically manages major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader.

Required Knowledge And Experience:

• Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• May have broad knowledge of project management.
• Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Solid understanding of IT SDLC system design and development lifecycles
• Understanding how to extract and analyze data 
• Experience working in agile methodology
• Experience defining new processes and improving existing processes
• Demonstrated ability to solicit clear requirements; translate those requirements into technical specifications; and deliver accurate, reliable solutions
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical topics to business management and users
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, quickly assessing opportunities and defining solutions
• Ability to develop effective relationships with business users, technical staff, and executive management
• Excellent communication skills matching appropriate content to different audiences
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Technology: Able to read technical code, sequence diagram or  pseudo-code when necessary.

• Self-Motivated Problem Solver

• Experience with Quote-To-Cash software and IT SDLC lifecycle, with a preference for candidates having technical development skillset in SAP ABAP, APEX/Lightning, AI/LLM, C#, Python, Java.
• Experience in Quote-To-Cash transformation journey in IT enterprise solution such as Conga CLM, Salesforce, iCertis, Palantir Foundry, S4 Hana
• PRINCIPAL LEVEL: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical topics to business management and users
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, quickly assessing opportunities and defining solutions
• Ability to develop effective relationships with business users, technical staff, and executive management
• Excellent communication skills matching appropriate content to different audiences
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Technology: Able to read technical code, sequence diagram or  pseudo-code when necessary.

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. 

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.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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