Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the Life
The Endoscopy Operating Unit has created a business out of disrupting the status quo in the detection, prevention, and treatment of gastrointestinal cancers and chronic diseases. We’ve done this by commercializing transformational technologies that improve patient management and standards of care, while increasing access to our innovations across the globe.
We improve patient outcomes by empowering every gastroenterologist across the globe with artificial intelligence and disruptive therapeutic technologies. Our talent is the foundation, and we will continue to bring deep clinical expertise, patient-centric innovation, and powerful digital capabilities to achieve this vision.
As an Associate Engineering Director at Medtronic, you will be a second-line leader accountable for a software organization spanning multiple teams and product areas. You will lead through both engineers and other managers, owning the health, capability, and delivery performance of your organization. Where an Engineering Manager drives a team, you will shape the technical and organizational strategy across teams, build the leadership bench beneath you, and serve as a primary partner to R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Program Management leadership on multi-year roadmap.
Primary Responsibilities
Lead and develop a software engineering organization of 40+ engineers across multiple product and platform teams.
Coach Engineering Managers and technical leaders, building leadership capability, succession plans, and organizational depth.
Drive end-to-end portfolio execution including resource planning, prioritization, dependency management, risk mitigation, and delivery governance.
Establish technical direction and architectural standards in partnership with Principal Engineers and Architects.
Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Systems, Clinical, and Program Management teams to support product development, verification and validation, and regulatory readiness.
Define and scale software development processes, engineering practices, and quality frameworks across multiple teams.
Oversee workforce planning, hiring strategies, vendor engagement, and budget planning for the organization.
Represent software engineering in leadership reviews, design reviews, audits, and cross-functional decision-making forums.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Minimum of 18+ years of applicable work experience in a SW product development & Global team environment.
Minimum 8+ years of people-management experience, including 2+ years leading multiple teams simultaneously.
Deep understanding of enterprise application full stack development (desktop, mobile, cloud) and V&V strategy, including automated verification.
Experience in developing and maintaining a deep technical understanding of product lines and technologies.
Experience in developing departmental budget and manages expenses in line with organizational objectives; approves departmental expenditures including capital and manpower expense.
Excellent Technology management, project management skills; demonstrated success executing complex engineering projects with diverse technical teams.
Proven ability to lead programs within a global matrix structure, including influencing peers and leaders without direct authority.
Demonstrated ability to blend organizational leadership with credible technical depth — able to set strategy and to engage substantively in architecture and design…