IT Forward Deployed Engineer Global Supply Management

Medtronic plc; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Minnesota is seeking an IT Forward Deployed Engineer for Global Supply Management. You will design and deliver scalable technology solutions, focusing on APIs, integrations, automation, and data platforms to support procurement and supply management.

You will work with business leaders, architects, and IT teams to translate challenges into practical, implementable solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field with 4+ years of IT/software engineering experience.
• Experience designing or delivering enterprise technology solutions involving software development, APIs, system integration, automation, or data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with modern programming or scripting languages and cloud-based/enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with GSM business leaders, product teams, architects, data teams, and technology partners to translate business problems into technical solutions.
• Rapidly design, prototype, and deliver solutions using APIs, integrations, automation, data platforms, and AI capabilities.
• Develop proofs of concept and MVPs to test business value, feasibility, user experience, and scalability.
• Integrate solutions across enterprise platforms while maintaining secure, maintainable architectures.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendor capabilities for practical business applications.
• Troubleshoot complex technical and process challenges across apps, integrations, data flows, and workflows.

Skills

APIs & integrations

Automation

Cloud platforms

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Tools

SAP S/4

SAP Ariba

Snowflake

Microsoft Azure

Power Platform

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 4 Nov 2026

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 IT Forward Deployed Engineer Global Supply Management is a hands‑on technology professional who works directly with business and IT teams to rapidly translate complex business challenges into practical, scalable technology solutions. Designing and building across multiple IT platforms and applications, this role works close to the business, moving from problem discovery through solution design, prototyping, integration, and implementation.

IT Global Supply Management (GSM) partners with Medtronic's Global Operations & Supply Chain organization to enable and improve the technology, data, and digital capabilities supporting procurement and supply management. The portfolio includes enterprise platforms, applications, data and integration capabilities, and emerging technology solutions that support procurement and supply management processes.

The Forward Deployed Engineer will connect business processes, enterprise applications, data, APIs, automation, AI, and emerging technologies to accelerate meaningful outcomes while ensuring solutions align with Medtronic's enterprise architecture, security, data, and technology standards.

This position will work onsite in Minnesota.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Partner directly with Global Supply Management business leaders, product teams, architects, data teams, and technology partners to understand business problems and translate them into actionable technical solutions.
• Rapidly design, prototype, and deliver solutions using APIs, integrations, automation, data platforms, AI capabilities, and modern application development approaches.
• Develop proofs of concept and minimum viable solutions that allow teams to quickly test business value, technical feasibility, user experience, and scalability before broader implementation.
• Integrate solutions across enterprise platforms and data sources while supporting reliable, secure, and maintainable architecture patterns.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendor capabilities and determine how they can be practically applied to Global Supply Management business problems.
• Troubleshoot complex technical and process challenges across applications, integrations, data flows, and business workflows, working across organizational boundaries to drive resolution.
• Transition successful prototypes and solutions into sustainable enterprise capabilities by collaborating with architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, application support, and product teams.
• Create reusable technical patterns, documentation, and solution approaches that accelerate future delivery across the Global Supply Management portfolio.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field, with 4+ years of relevant IT/software engineering experience, or an advanced degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing or delivering enterprise technology solutions involving software development, APIs, system integration, automation, or data platforms.
• Hands‑on technical experience with modern programming or scripting languages and experience working with cloud-based or enterprise technology platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business problems into technical requirements, prototypes, and scalable solutions.
• Experience working collaboratively across business, engineering, architecture, data, cybersecurity, and technology teams.
• Experience supporting procurement, sourcing, supplier management, supply chain, or Source-to-Pay business processes and technologies.
• Experience with technologies such as SAP S/4, SAP Ariba, Snowflake, Microsoft Azure, Power Platform, APIs/integration platforms, AI/GenAI, or intelligent automation.
• Experience rapidly developing proofs of concept, prototypes, or minimum viable products and transitioning successful concepts into production solutions.
• Understanding of enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data governance, DevSecOps/CI-CD, and software lifecycle practices.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work directly with business stakeholders, understand complex operational problems, and communicate technical concepts in practical business terms.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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