Senior Principal Enterprise Software Engineer

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 Developer Experience Architect, you will design, build, and maintain solutions that help deliver a reliable, scalable, and efficient platform foundation that supports the deployment, management, and monitoring of our applications and services. You will use cloud technology to automate many components of the software development and deployment lifecycle. 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.

·        Collaborate with the architecture team to design the organization's platform infrastructure, considering scalability, performance, security, and automation.

·        Develop and maintain automation scripts, infrastructure-as-code solutions, and configuration. management tools to streamline the provisioning and management of infrastructure resources.

·        Drive the implementation of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to enable efficient deployment and scaling of applications.

·        Develop policies, standards, guidelines, governance, and related guidance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers.

·        Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps teams, fostering a culture of innovation, learning, and collaboration.

·        Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into robust and scalable platform solutions.

·        Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and trends to identify opportunities for improving the platform's architecture and processes.

·        Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and application-related issues.

·        Lead capacity planning efforts to ensure the platform can accommodate growth and changing demands.

·        Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for architecture, deployment procedures, and troubleshooting guides.

Contribute to the organization's technical strategy by providing insights and recommendations on infrastructure improvements and innovations 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.