Senior IT Manager - I&O and AI

IN2 COV - COV Engineering Services PL; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,400,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangement

Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP)

Job summary

Medtronic is seeking a Product Owner for the Enterprise AI Platform based in Hyderabad, India, with a flexible work arrangement. You will maximize value by defining the product strategy, managing the roadmap, and delivering platform capabilities in collaboration with engineering, architecture, operations, and business stakeholders.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in enterprise software/product management, strong Agile/Scrum experience, and technical familiarity with cloud, APIs, and AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience as a Product Owner or Technical Product Manager supporting enterprise software or platform products.
• Experience working within Agile and Scrum delivery methodologies.
• Experience delivering enterprise software platforms in a global environment.
• Technical experience with cloud platforms, APIs, AI technologies, or platform engineering solutions.
• Experience managing product backlogs, prioritization, and roadmap execution across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the product backlog to maximize business value and platform outcomes.
• Define product features, user stories, and acceptance criteria to support effective delivery.
• Develop and maintain the product roadmap, aligning business priorities with platform strategy and release cycles.
• Translate platform vision and strategy into sprint objectives and actionable work for engineering teams.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release readiness activities within Agile delivery frameworks.
• Coordinate delivery across engineering pods and manage dependencies, risks, and blockers.
• Partner with Architecture, Engineering, QA, UX, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to drive execution and platform stability.
• Communicate roadmap progress, priorities, risks, and delivery status to leadership and stakeholders.
• Support release deployments and hypercare activities in partnership with platform operations teams.
• Balance customer needs, platform architecture, security requirements, and technical priorities when making product decisions.

Skills

Backlog management

Agile/Scrum

Enterprise software

Cloud/API/AI

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

ServiceNow

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

The Enterprise AI Platform team is responsible for developing and evolving enterprise-scale AI capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and production-ready solutions across the organization. The team currently focuses on the Gestalt AI Platform, supporting AIOps initiatives while expanding AI platform services and capabilities to meet evolving business and technology needs. This role is based at the Medtronic facility in Hyderabad, India and follows a Flex work arrangement. No travel is required for this position. The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value delivered through the enterprise AI platform by defining product strategy, managing roadmap execution, and driving successful delivery of platform capabilities. This role partners closely with engineering, architecture, operations, infrastructure, quality, user experience, and business stakeholders to prioritize work, align delivery teams, and ensure platform solutions meet business, operational, and security objectives.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the product backlog to maximize business value and platform outcomes.
• Define product features, user stories, and acceptance criteria to support effective delivery.
• Develop and maintain the product roadmap, aligning business priorities with platform strategy and release cycles.
• Translate platform vision and strategy into sprint objectives and actionable work for engineering teams.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release readiness activities within Agile delivery frameworks.
• Coordinate delivery across engineering pods and manage dependencies, risks, and blockers.
• Partner with Architecture, Engineering, QA, UX, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to drive execution and platform stability.
• Communicate roadmap progress, priorities, risks, and delivery status to leadership and stakeholders.
• Support release deployments and hypercare activities in partnership with platform operations teams.
• Balance customer needs, platform architecture, security requirements, and technical priorities when making product decisions.

Required knowledge and experience

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience as a Product Owner or Technical Product Manager supporting enterprise software or platform products.
• Experience working within Agile and Scrum delivery methodologies.
• Experience delivering enterprise software platforms in a global environment.
• Technical experience with cloud platforms, application programming interfaces (APIs), artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, or platform engineering solutions.
• Experience managing product backlogs, prioritization, and roadmap execution across cross-functional teams.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with AI and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized platform environments.
• Experience with DevOps practices and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Experience using ServiceNow and working with enterprise service management processes.
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, observability platforms, or monitoring tools such as SolarWinds or Nexthink.
• Demonstrated experience influencing stakeholders and collaborating across global, cross-functional teams.

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.

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. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning These commitments set our team apart from the rest: Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care 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.