IT Forward Deployed Engineer Global Supply Management

Medtronic plc; United States; On-site; USD 106,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Medtronic plc in Minnesota is seeking an IT Forward Deployed Engineer to translate business challenges into scalable technology solutions within Global Supply Management. You’ll design, prototype, and implement integrations, automation, and data-driven platforms closely with business teams.

The role emphasizes rapid prototyping, concept validation, and secure, scalable architectures across enterprise systems, leveraging AI and modern development practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or related field with 4+ years of IT/software engineering experience, or an advanced degree with 2+ years of experience.
• Experience designing or delivering enterprise tech solutions involving software development, APIs, system integration, automation, or data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with modern programming or scripting languages and cloud-based or enterprise platforms.
• For international degrees, compliance requirements may apply.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Global Supply Management leaders, product teams, and architects to translate business problems into technical solutions.
• Rapidly design, prototype, and deliver solutions using APIs, integrations, automation, data platforms, AI, and modern development approaches.
• Develop proofs of concept and MVPs to test business value, technical feasibility, UX, and scalability before full deployment.
• Integrate solutions across enterprise platforms and data sources while ensuring secure, maintainable architectures.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendor capabilities for applicability to GSM problems.
• Troubleshoot complex technical and process challenges across applications, data flows, and workflows.
• Transition prototypes into sustainable enterprise capabilities with architecture, cybersecurity, and product teams.
• Create reusable patterns, docs, and approaches to accelerate future delivery.

Skills

APIs & integration

Automation

Cloud platforms

AI/GenAI

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

SAP S/4

SAP Ariba

Snowflake

Microsoft Azure

Power Platform

APIs/integration platforms

GenAI

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.
• 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.

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.

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. 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.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal‑level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long‑term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$106,400.00 - $159,600.00

This position is eligible for a short‑term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week:

• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long‑term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well‑being program)

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:

• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short‑term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non‑qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico. Further details are available at the link below: Medtronic benefits and compensation plans.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.

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. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. 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. For sales reps and other patient‑facing field employees, going into a healthcare settingis 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. This employer participates in the federal E‑Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E‑Verify program, please click here.