Senior Principal Enterprise Software Engineer

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 The Cardiovascular Group brings all of our cardiac and vascular businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe. Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms, as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions.

 As the SW Development Architect, you will be responsible for architecting the software capabilities of the full technology stack for CRM’s next generation enterprise Clinician Programmer and Patient Care Management system. This enterprise software supports clinicians across 90+ geographies for in clinic implant, follow-up and remote monitoring.

 You will be responsible for defining the vision and driving the realization for robust software in the context of DevOps based software delivery. You will provide leadership and architectural direction to engineering teams to ensure speed, quality, and compliance.  You will continuously drive software improvements by leveraging state-of-the-art methodologies, standards and tools, acting as a conduit of progressive external and internal thinking. Your perspective will be broad, incorporating system level design thinking and arriving at solution approach for complex technical problems across software development life cycle.

• Define and communicate the vision for all aspects of CRM software, the architecture to enable it, and the steps to realization.
• Demonstrate accountability of design and architecture to build scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Provides well informed recommendations with multiple options using POCs and other means of establishing validated learning in critical aspects of the architecture and design.
• Collaborate with other architects and engineering teams to understand and drive the organization’s business requirements in-line with product NorthStar architecture.
• Accountable for technical viability of quality solutions that work with the given cost, scope, and schedule while maximizing progress toward the vision and balancing technical debt.
• Evaluate and improve the tools and framework used in software development.
• Enable compliance with internal and external standards.
• Share software best practices, architectural principles, concepts and define standards for the team to build consistent and maintainable code and reusable frameworks.
• Research and propose tool and technology choices.
• Serve as technical voice for current and future-state software dev practices with internal and external stakeholders.
• Author technical papers and/or file patents; Fosters technical innovation.
• Contribute to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, and operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.
• Create visibility into the state of software through feedback loops and metrics.
• Consult with others to help leverage what exists and obtain feedback for how to improve.
• Serves as a principal spokesperson internally related to subject matter expertise pertaining to its policies, plans, and objectives, new technological / technical research, functional thought leadership and other significant advancements.

Delivery: 

• Engages with the persistent teams through Agile/Scrum ceremonies including PI and Scrum planning, stand ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives as appropriate.
• Engages with the larger architecture team to ensure alignment across the Patient Management ecosystem of hardware and software.
• Works with the Product Owners to define aspects of user story acceptance criteria and the prioritization of the Architecture Runway.
• Balances security with cost and capability assessments to support experiences designed.
• Works with the persistent teams to adapt the design based on early sprints and other learnings.
• Guides the teams in leveraging established standards, patterns, and practices for delivery.

Responsibilities may also include the following.

• Designs, develops, documents, tests, maintains, and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
• Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.
• Ensures software standards are met.
• Work with other architects within the team to ensure the Device Manager applications and services provide scalable and resilient services that are productive and efficient to use.
• Deliver software telemetry and self-service documentation for your work and champion it’s practices. 
• Put together POC’s to evaluate new services and capabilities; participate in development and review of code that creates and runs our Device Managers.
• Work with IT to drive implementation & planning.
• Work with DevOps teams to deliver, deploy, and operate the software.