SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER

Careers that Change Lives

The Neuroscience portfolio group develops life-restoring therapies and healthcare solutions that span the care continuum; integrating technologies and applying clinical and economic evidence to increase patient access, improve efficiency of procedures and deliver successful patient outcomes. We provide specialized therapies including Deep Brain Stimulation, Spinal Cord Stimulation and Targeted Drug Delivery. Join a Culture of Collaboration and Innovation.

A Day in the Life

In this exciting role as a Software Development Manager, you will lead a motivated, diverse, globally distributed, and knowledge-hungry development team delivering world-class products while striving for the highest level of quality, execution, and functional excellence.

This role is responsible for ensuring that software is developed according to good design practices and follows the corresponding requirements set forth by local procedures, regulatory authorities and notified bodies.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of software engineers.

• Represent your team to the wider organization.

• Lead scrum teams through the SDLC for medical devices following IEC 62304/82304.

• Work with different stakeholders and cross-functional teams to prioritize team work according to business needs.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather input, provide updates, and align product strategies with their needs and expectations.

• Decompose and elaborate on feature requirements and management of team backlog.

• Guide teams in sprint and increment planning, championing, and supervising value-focused capabilities.

• Balance and drive consensus on inputs from multiple stakeholders, anchoring priorities in direct user research.

• Participate in Risk Assessment and requirements development.

• Participate in the documentation of the software including architecture and design detail, unit testing, defect tracking and reports.

• Cross function team collaboration with HW and systems partners, including Quality, System V&V…etc.

• Follow Medical device regulations (IEC 62304, IEC 82304, FDA …etc.)

• Accountable for the quality, robustness, predictability, and completeness of the team’s output, including tracking and reporting software quality metrics.

• Accountable for your team’s compliance with internal design controls and medical device regulations and standards.

• Prepare team members for certification and regulatory audits. May represent the team’s work in audits.

• Drive departmental excellence, proficiency, best practice, and consistency across project teams.

• Provide leadership in solving engineering problems and fostering creativity and innovation in design and problem solutions.

• Anticipate the need for new development tools, methods, technologies, and processes.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree in a technical discipline (engineering or science) required

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• 5+ years of program or project management experience.

• Strong understanding of software development and software systems.

• Experience in medical device Product Development.

• Experience working in a regulated environment.

• Strong experience working across a matrixed organization using written and verbal skills to communicate and understand cross-functional teams’ interactions and responsibilities.

• Influence management skills: experience working collaboratively at all levels in matrix environment to build and maintain the positive relationships required to accomplish organizational goals.

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.

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. Learn more about our benefits here (https://www3.benefitsolver.com/benefits/BenefitSolverView?page_name=signon&co_num=30601&co_affid=medtronic) .

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) here .

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico. Base pay is based on numerous factors and may vary by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, etc. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

Physical Job Requirements

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. (ADA-United States of America)

Min Salary

155200.0

Max Salary

232800.0

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.