Sr IT Architect

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 7 Nov 2025

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life
We are seeking an experienced Senior DataOps Engineer to join our team. This candidate will have a strong background in DevOps, DataOps, or Cloud Engineering practices, with extensive experience in automating the CICD pipelines and modern data stack technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines and infrastructure automation workflows using GitHub, AWS, and Databricks.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD for automated infrastructure deployment, testing, and validation.
• Deploy and manage Databricks LLM Runtime or custom Hugging Face models within Databricks notebooks and model serving endpoints.
• Manage and optimize Cloud Infrastructure costs, usage, and performance through tagging policies, right-sizing EC2 instances, storage tiering strategies, and auto-scaling.
• Set up infrastructure observability and performance dashboards using AWS CloudWatch for real-time insights into cloud resources and data pipelines.
• Develop and manage Terraform or CloudFormation modules to automate infrastructure provisioning across AWS accounts and environments.
• Implement and enforce cloud security policies, IAM roles, encryption mechanisms (KMS), and compliance configurations.
• Administer Databricks Workspaces, clusters, access controls, and integrations with Cloud Storage and identity providers.
• Enforce DevSecOps practices for infrastructure-as-code, ensuring all changes are peer-reviewed, tested, and compliant with internal security policies.
• Coordinate cloud software releases, patching schedules, and vulnerability remediations using Systems Manager Patch Manage.
• Automate AWS housekeeping and operational tasks such as:
• Cleanup of unused EBS Volumes, snapshots, old AMIs
• Rotation of secrets and credentials using secrets manager
• Log retention enforcement using S3 Lifecycle policies and CloudWatch Log groups
• Perform incident response, disaster recovery planning, and post-mortem analysis for operational outages.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and other stakeholders to gather, implement the infrastructure and data requirements.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in DataOps / CloudOps / DevOps roles, with strong focus on infrastructure automation, data pipeline operations, observability, and cloud administration.
• Strong proficiency in at least one Scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash) and one infrastructure-as-code tool (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) for building automation scripts for AWS resource cleanup, tagging enforcement, monitoring and backups.
• Hands-on experience integrating and operationalizing LLMs in production pipelines, including prompt management, caching, token-tracking, and post-processing.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS Services, including
• Core: EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, Lambda, VPC
• Data Services: Athena, Glue, MSK, Redshift
• Security: KMS, IAM, Config, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager
• Operational: Auto Scaling, Systems Manager, CloudFormation/Terraform
• Machine Learning/AI: Bedrock, SageMaker, OpenSearch serverless
• Working knowledge of Databricks, including:
• Cluster and workspace management, job orchestration
• Integration with AWS Storage and identity (IAM passthrough)
• Experience deploying and managing CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, including VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, security groups, and private link setup.
• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, ECS) for deploying platform tools and services.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data warehousing concepts, and AI/ML Lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of cost optimization strategies across compute, storage, and network layers.
• Experience with data governance, logging, and compliance practices in cloud environments (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR)
• Bonus: Exposure to LangChain, Prompt Engineering frameworks, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and vector database integration (AWS OpenSearch, Pinecone, Milvus, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer or SysOps Administrator certifications.
• Hands-on experience with multi-cloud environments, particularly Azure or GCP, in addition to AWS.
• Experience with infrastructure cost management tools like AWS Cost Explorer, or FinOps dashboards.
• Ability to write clean, production-grade Python code for automation scripts, operational tooling, and custom CloudOps Utilities.
• Prior experience in supporting high-availability production environments with disaster recovery and failover architectures.
• Understanding of Zero Trust architecture and security best practices in cloud-native environments.
• Experience with automated cloud resources cleanup, tagging enforcement, and compliance-as-code using tools like Terraform Sentinel.
• Familiarity with Databricks Unity Catalog, access control frameworks, and workspace governance.
• Strong communication skills and experience working in agile cross-functional teams, ideally with Data Product or Platform Engineering teams.

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM:
Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy:
Seasoned individual contributor.

Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions.

Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.

Organizational Impact:
May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area.

Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.

Innovation and Complexity:
Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties .

Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area.

Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.

Communication and Influence:
Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors.

Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management:
May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.

May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product .

Required Knowledge and Experience:
Requires advanced knowledge of job area combining breadth and depth, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.

May have practical knowledge of project management.

Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R.

• 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

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.

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):$104, $156,000.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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, and 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), and 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:

About Medtronic
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.

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