Senior Principal Product Security Engineer
A Day in the Life
The Senior Principal Product Security Engineer is instrumental in ensuring the privacy and security of our Diabetes operating unit. Reporting directly to the Director of Privacy and Information Security, this role spearheads the integration of privacy by design and state-of-the-art security measures, identifies potential vulnerabilities and remediation, and champions initiatives to bolster privacy and cyber-resiliency throughout the business. A deep understanding of privacy regulation and corresponding security controls, environments that underpin client-facing medical device solutions, and developing driving adoption of privacy and security frameworks is essential #MDTDiabetesReferralCampaign
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Key Responsibilities:
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Product Security Strategy & Continuous Learning - Engage in continuous professional development to stay updated with the latest cybersecurity trends and threats specific to medical devices and health software products. Contribute to OU and enterprise product security strategy that aligns with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Privacy by Design: collaborate with legal and technical stakeholders to conduct privacy impact assessments, data minimization requirements and automations, and user-centric and secure designs. To foster a privacy-conscious culture.
- Product Security - Lead efforts to embed security into the product development lifecycle, ensuring that security considerations are integrated from design through deployment. This includes in-house developed technology, licensed technology, consumer devices, and enterprise security processes / standards.
- Risk Assessment - Systematically perform threat modeling, security risk evaluations, and vulnerability assessments to highlight and mitigate potential security threats throughout the product lifecycle.
- Privacy & Security Architecture - Aid in devising and deploying secure product architectures and designs, considering factors such as secure boot, secure communications, data protection, secure updates, secure integration, and access controls
- Standards & Testing - Maintain and enforce security standards, policies, and procedures for medical device systems and product development. Oversee security testing activities, including penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and code reviews
- Security Awareness - Drive and promote security awareness and training across cross-functional product development teams to foster a security-conscious culture
- Compliance - Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations related to covered entities such as NIST 801 and HIPAA
- Documentation - Maintain detailed documentation of security best practices, guidance, configurations, design patterns, shared service designs, inventories, incident response plans, security architectures, and reports
- Bachelors degree required
- Requires a University Degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
Nice to Have
- 5 years of Privacy or Security engineering experience in a regulated industry
- Degree in related engineering or cybersecurity from an accredited institution
- Ability to adapt to the fast-evolving cybersecurity landscape and implement proactive strategies.
- Demonstrated aptitude in identifying challenges and providing innovative solutions.
- Experience in mentoring and leading junior security engineers, fostering growth within the team.
- Demonstrated experience in staying updated with evolving regulations in the medical device sector.
- Industry-recognized certifications such as [CISSP, CSSLP, CISM] are highly desirable
- Proficiency in secure coding methodologies and standards
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
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)
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 at http://benefits.medtronic.com
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) on page 6 here.
The provided base salary range is used nationally (except in certain CA locations). The rate offered is compliant with federal/local regulations and may vary by experience, certification/education, market conditions, location, etc.
