Senior Principal Data Architect

GAL Medtronic Vascular Galway Unlimited Company; Parkmore; On-site; EUR 109,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic seeks a Senior Principal Data Architect to lead enterprise-scale healthcare data platforms and interoperability initiatives within the Patient Care Systems ecosystem.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, security, privacy, and regulatory teams to define scalable data capabilities, architectures, and strategic direction, ensuring data exchange, analytics, and digital health solutions align with business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical discipline with 15+ years of software, data, or platform architecture experience.
• Experience troubleshooting data sets, formatting, and coding.
• Experience with relational database management systems, big data solutions, and distributed computing frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of platform as a service offerings and deployment best practices.
• Advanced knowledge of data streaming, batch processing, and data transformation.
• Ability to translate business processes into functional specifications and documents.
• Solid communication skills across business and technology domains.
• Experience with SDLC methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.
• Cloud experience, preferably with AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, document, test, maintain, and debug applications and systems for data solutions.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, architecture, security, privacy, and regulatory teams to define scalable data capabilities.
• Ensure delivery of features into production within scope and budget while balancing technical debt.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and provide technical guidance across teams.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud AWS

Big data

Relational databases

Distributed computing

Platform as a Service

Data streaming

Agile development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/IT

Master’s degree in a related field

Tools

HL7/FHIR standards

Job description

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 At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations. Our Purpose At Medtronic Patient Care Systems (PCS), we power the digital heartbeat behind life‑saving cardiac therapies. We build the connected ecosystem that enables clinicians to monitor, manage, and protect millions of patients living with implantable cardiac devices around the world. From secure device connectivity and real‑time data platforms to intelligent clinical tools and patient‑facing experiences, PCS transforms complex cardiac data into clarity, helping physicians make faster decisions, improving outcomes, and giving patients greater confidence in their care. Every line of code we write supports someone’s parent, spouse, child, or friend. Our work ensures that life‑saving therapies are not only delivered safely and reliably, but continuously improved through innovation, insight, and global scale. If you want to build technology that truly matters, where uptime means peace of mind and innovation means more birthdays, join us. Together, we are shaping the future of connected cardiac care and changing lives every single day Come for a job, stay for a career!

A Day in The Life Of: The Patient Care Systems portfolio develops and delivers connected technologies, data platforms, and interoperability capabilities that support clinical workflows and patient care across healthcare settings. The Data Architecture function enables scalable, secure, and compliant data solutions that support product innovation, clinical data exchange, analytics, and regulatory requirements across a complex healthcare ecosystem. As a Senior Principal Data Architect, you will provide technical leadership for enterprise‑scale healthcare data platforms, interoperability solutions, and data architecture strategy within the Patient Care Systems ecosystem. You will collaborate across product, engineering, architecture, security, privacy, and regulatory teams to define and deliver scalable data capabilities that enable clinical data exchange, analytics, and digital health solutions while maintaining alignment with business objectives and architectural standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the Platform Data Architect to enable architectural vision, design, and technology choices for the data solutions in the Patient Care Systems ecosystem.
• Work with the Product Manager to define aspects of user story acceptance criteria and the prioritization of the Architecture Runway.
• Provide well‑informed recommendations with multiple options using POCs and other means of establishing validated learning in critical aspects of architecture and design.
• Identify and document technical risks/debt and strategies for mitigation.
• Gain support and approval for architecture and design; this often involves collaboration with corporate security entities and platform teams.
• Deliver and maintain architecture documents and presentations needed for review and team guidance.
• 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.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, HFUX, Systems Engineers, Architects, and peers to define solutions to market requirements.
• Work with other teams in the formulation and review of their work, providing critical thinking and additional options that improve the work of the wider team.
• Work with Product Leaders to define vision by providing a voice of technical possibility, feasibility, and sequencing options.
• Collaborate with Privacy, Security and Regulatory entities regarding the technical impact of emerging and existing legislation with data implications (e.g. EU Data Act, GDPR, HIPAA).
• Analyze and define internal and external customer requirements and mapping rules for clinical data exchange through a variety of data acquisition channels.
• Collaborate with offshore and onsite development and build quality products supporting Agile activities ensuring deliverables meet both quality and performance standards.
• Participate in Agile grooming, planning, retrospectives, design reviews and user acceptance.
• Identify ways to transform & enrich data to enhance the business value of the data by implementing approaches to meet the business needs, while leveraging reusable and scalable solutions.
• Build and advance collaborative relationships with business partners, product managers and IT partners.
• Stay current on latest technologies, evolving HL7 standards and changes.
• Strive to be a thought leader and advanced practitioner in data integration and interoperability.
• Demonstrate strong communication and customer management skills.
• Serve as a technical evangelist regarding data platform capabilities.
• Bring a clear data influence on the culture, patterns, practices, and tooling of software delivery with Agile and DevOps foundations.
• Engage with the persistent teams through Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including and Scrum planning, stand ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives as appropriate.
• Engage with the larger data architecture team to ensure alignment across the Patient Care Systems ecosystem of hardware and software.
• Enforce the use of patterns, practices, and standards that enable teams to work more independently.
• Balance data with cost and capability assessments to support experiences designed.
• Work with persistent teams to adapt the design based on early sprints and other learnings.
• Guide the teams in leveraging established standards, patterns, and practices for delivery.
• Accountable for delivery of features into production.

Responsibilities may also include the following

• Design, develop, document, test, maintain, and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.
• Determine computer user needs; analyse system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepare operating instructions; design and develop compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical discipline and 15+ years of relevant experience in software, data, or platform architecture; or Master's degree and 13+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues with data sets, formatting and coding.
• Experience with relational database management systems, big data solutions and distributed computing frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of platform as a service offering, as well as best practices regarding instantiation and configuration.
• Advanced knowledge of data streaming, batch and transformation.
• Ability to translate business processes/requirements into functional specifications/documents.
• Solid group communication skills including fluency in the languages of business and technology.
• Demonstrated expertise in software development life cycle methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.
• Cloud experience, preferably AWS.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting healthcare data platforms utilizing HL7, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Continuity of Care Document (CCD), or related interoperability standards.
• HL7 or FHIR certification.
• Experience in Clinical data analysis and data mapping.
• Experience writing interfaces.
• Experience leading integration architecture solutions and/or enterprise architecture for data intensive, scalable, high throughput platforms and applications leveraging knowledge of event‑based messaging and notification, Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems and engineering best practices.
• Knowledge of HIPAA Security, Privacy, and PHI/PII concerns.
• Knowledge of industry standard patterns, practices and technologies including middleware, messaging types, microservices and containers, Cloud, message streaming, RESTful and web services APIs, and Big Data.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package. 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.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Ireland: 108,960.00 EUR - 163,440.00 EUR | This position is eligible for a short‑term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Employment Policies

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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