Senior Principal Enterprise Software Engineer

About the role

Medtronic, a global healthcare technology company, is looking for a Senior Principal Enterprise Software Engineer who provides architectural and technical leadership for complex medical device software products and platforms. The role defines software architecture, drives the development and verification of scalable and secure solutions, and gives technical direction to globally distributed engineering teams, combining hands-on engineering with system-level design across embedded, mobile, enterprise and connected software in a regulated medical device environment.

Key responsibilities

• Provide architectural and technical leadership across software products and platforms, aligning product designs with system and enterprise architecture.
• Define system-level software requirements and architectures, review design artifacts and ensure requirements traceability, technical quality, scalability, security and maintainability.
• Lead the design, development and verification of high-integrity software for Class II and Class III medical device systems.
• Architect software for real-time data acquisition, processing, synchronization and presentation across implantable devices and connected systems.
• Design and guide development of embedded, mobile, client/server, web and cloud interfaces, including Bluetooth, TCP/UDP, sockets, REST and SOAP services.
• Develop and promote reusable software frameworks, object-oriented design patterns, automation approaches and test-first engineering practices.
• Evaluate technologies, frameworks, engineering tools and development practices, and lead technical and process improvements across teams.
• Influence technical strategy and product roadmaps while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product owners, architects, technical leads, verification and validation engineers and global R&D partners.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering with 20+ years of software engineering experience, or a Master's degree with 17+ years of experience.
• Experience architecting and building AI-assisted and AI-native tools and solutions with measurable efficiency and productivity impact.
• Preferred: experience with Class III medical device systems, implantable device software, device simulators or mobile operating system applications for regulated medical systems.

Required skills

• Software architecture, design, development, debugging and testing using C# and .NET.
• Medical device software, including real-time data acquisition, processing, synchronization or presentation.
• Embedded and connected software, including firmware or device drivers, Bluetooth, TCP/UDP, sockets and networking services.
• Requirements translation using UML, requirements traceability and object-oriented design.
• Preferred: IEC 62304, ISO 13485, medical device cybersecurity, patient privacy and secure software development; Agile, TDD, automated testing and configuration management; OS threading, distributed computing, relational databases, web applications and build systems; cross-functional, geographically distributed teams.

What we offer

• A competitive salary and a flexible benefits package.
• Eligibility for the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).