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A Day in the Life

Careers That Change Lives

Transforming Patient Management with Smart Technology!

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Electrophysiology Therapies (EPT) Software develops the next generation medical technologies that alleviate pain, restore health and extend life for millions of patients across the world. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

EPT Software is developed with state of the art, industry standard technologies and used by Clinicians and Patients worldwide. In this exciting role as a Senior Software Program Manager, you will have responsibility for managing software development program that support products in Electrophysiology Therapies (EPT). These products include implantable cardiac devices (pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, cardiac re-synchronization devices and cardiac rhythm monitors). The Senior Program Manager is accountable for ensuring software execution and delivery across agile/scrum teams within the Patient Care Systems organization.

This includes responsibility to guide software development team(s) in their day-to-day development activities, provide program and project planning, scheduling and tracking, and help drive functional excellence in program execution for the Software organization. The candidate must be self-driven, with a strong understanding and experience of program management, the Software Development Lifecycle process and strong technical and leadership skills.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

Day in the Life: 

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior Software Engineering Program Manager role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Responsible for program(s) estimation and planning including identifying requirements, developing work plans, managing program annual and strategic budgets, building schedules, and partnering with team members to determine and communicate functional and/or resource requirements. 
• Own and Manage execution against an aggressive but achievable program and/or project plan, provide work direction to team members, work with peer program managers, cross functional program team members to monitor dependencies and ensure critical program milestones and deliverables are met. Coordinate timelines across multiple projects to ensure overall program level cohesive progress
• Collaborate with Core Team Leaders, Platform Leaders, Product Managers, Functional Leaders, Human Factors Engineer, Architects & Systems Engineers to drive programs within scope, cost, and schedule
• Lead team(s) of software engineers (employees and vendor resources) to deliver program commitments
• Communicate program status and issues to internal and external stakeholders regularly including the Core Team Leader and Development Lead in the Program Core Team as appropriate.  Proactively manage quality, risks, and issues at all stages in the program
• Provide clear, concise, and data-driven program status reporting to senior leadership, ensuring visibility to progress, commitments, risks, dependencies, key decisions, tradeoffs, and recovery actions required to achieve program outcomes
• Provide team members with a clear vision and purpose for the program and create a positive tone and morale for the team.  Motivate team members and build project team identity and cohesion.  Ensure effective cross-discipline coordination and communication is occurring throughout the program
• Participate, facilitate and coordinate as needed quarterly product team ceremonies such as quarterly planning, report outs & retrospectives
• Provide input for setting team members’ performance objectives and provide feedback to the functional leaders about performance against project deliverables and core competencies undefined

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Qualifications

Must Have - Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience

Nice to Have

• 7+ years’ experience leading software development projects
• Strong understanding of instrument software and embedded systems
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Managing geographically distributed teams
• Track record of effective vendor management to deliver results
• Experience working in regulated environments and delivering new products in compliance with global regulatory standards
• Project Management Certification such as PMP, or similar certifications
• Proficiency in program management software (e.g., Microsoft Project, Smartsheet) and project management methodologies
• Proven ability to operate in a matrix organization and work effectively with senior leadership, customers, and across geographic, cultural and organization boundaries.
  

 

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. 

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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: 116,640.00 EUR - 174,960.00 EUR | 

 

The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework.

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