You will be a key contributor as a Principal Product Development Project Management Specialist on the DevOps team as we “shift left” and adopt IaC. You will lead cross functional teams to value stream map the existing pipeline to determine existing value, where there is waste and where the opportunities are. You will also lead requirements gathering, design and implementation of a new fully automated CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure for Medtronic Neuroscience products and technologies.
This is an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated leader to work collaboratively to solve problems in complex environments. You enjoy communicating with many types of stakeholders, managing large DevOps initiatives and ensuring that the end product and process solves the business problems.
You embrace the Medtronic Mindset:
- Act boldly: Seizing on opportunities to experiment, optimize and disrupt
- Compete to win: Being proactive to solve problems
- Move with speed and decisiveness: Work together and learn fast, making thoughtful decisions and partnering across reporting structures
- Foster belonging: Collaborative team culture, learning together, promoting team cohesion
- Deliver results the right way: Quality first and customer centric
Are you making an impact? Are you supporting a mission that improves lives? At Medtronic we are driven by the mission and commitment to contribute to human welfare and alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for the patients using our products.
Impact patient outcomes. Come for a job, stay for a career.
This position is in the Neuroscience portfolio group working on mobile and web applications serving deep brain stimulation, spinal cord stimulation, pelvic health stimulation therapies and targeted drug delivery therapies.
Our space, the medical device and healthcare industry, is rapidly changing. It always has been that way. With remote monitoring, wearables, robotics, AR/VR, telemedicine, and much more, agility and responsiveness are key to our success. Experience what it’s like to work at a company with an exciting product pipeline full of patented inventions driving innovation in the healthcare space.
A Day in the Life
The Principal Product Development Project Management Specialist role is a hands-on role, focused on leading the vision, development and implementation of a CI/CD pipeline that will accelerate Neuromodulation’s ability to innovate while finding defects early in the development process. You will lead a team consisting of DevOps Engineers supported by the highest level of leadership to do this highly visible and critical work.
You will:
- Lead cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage internal new DevOps product development.
- Monitor the project from initiation through delivery.
- Work with software development, testing, quality and systems teams to surface requirements that will help improve our ability to deliver products faster to market.
- Plan and deliver using Agile methodologies.
- Represent Medtronic as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.
- Contribute to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements
- Bachelors degree in a technically related field required
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience
Nice to Have
- Experience leading and managing CI/CD pipelines projects.
- Experience with automation, build and configuration tools such as Jenkins, Jira, Ansible Tower, GitLab, SonarQube, Terraform.
- Experience with containerization tools and infrastructure, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience guiding a software development or DevOps team.
- Desire to work in a team-based collaborative environment.
- Ability to manage a complex portfolio of products and services.
- Experience as a Scrum or Agile Product Owner.
- Outstanding leadership, communication and teamwork skills.
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.
Physical Job Requirements
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