Senior Principal Enterprise Software Architect

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 LifeSenior Principal Architect with deep expertise in designing and integrating AI solutions within distributed software systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience architecting applications using ReactJS, NodeJS, AWS, and related technologies, and a strong understanding of Agentic AI as a service. Will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction and ensuring robust, scalable, and intelligent software delivery.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Architect and oversee the design of distributed software systems that seamlessly incorporate AI capabilities.
• Strategize to leverage AI to accelerate product development and spearhead AI adoption across SDLC.
• Lead end-to-end development, from ideation to deployment, ensuring the integration of AI models and services into scalable production environments.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and data science teams to define system architecture and technical roadmaps.
• Guide best practices for cloud-native development and deployment using AWS and related services.
• Champion the adoption of modern frontend and backend technologies (ReactJS, NodeJS) within distributed, AI-powered applications with earlier working experince in Java or .Net.
• Evaluate, design, and implement Agentic AI solutions as a service, focusing on autonomy, orchestration, and real-time decision-making.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Stay at the forefront of AI and distributed computing trends, proactively recommending new technologies and approaches.

• Architecting integration of AI/ML models and services into production workflows.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and influencing product development direction at Senior Principal / Architect level.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Experience in designing and building distributed and modular architectures (microservices, API-first)
• B.E/BTech.in CS, IT, EC Engineering.
• 18+ years of experience (or ME/MTech), including  10+ years of experience in (high/low-level) customer-facing products architecture and design
• A track record of delivering results even when requirements are under-specified.
• Hands-on experience as full stack developer using ReactJS,  JavaScript or Typescript, and modern f frameworks (e.g., NodeJS, Express.js, Next.js) and Python
• Experience design solutions, RESTful API services (including Open API Spec, Swagger) and performance-tuning large-scale apps
• Ability to lead design and development and mentor junior engineers.
• Past experience in designing and developing solutions for distributed and microservices architecture.
• Deep knowledge of Object-Oriented programing and engineering principles like SOLID
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL ,MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch)
• Engineering practice experience such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security
• Strong experience in developing solutions on AWS Platform leveraging AWS services
• Hands-on experience in cloud-native application deployment/debugging (either of AWS. Good to have Azure and GCP)
• Experience implementing DevOps CI/CD tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, CodeDeploy, CircleCI, Jenkins/Travis etc.), Observability platforms
• Proven expertise in integrating AI/ML models and services into production workflows.
• Knowledge on application security and secure design practices is a must
• Ability to advocate and implement best practices and standard solutions
• Ability to manage own learning and contribute to functional knowledge building
• Ability to work both independently and help other team members
• Ability to influence stakeholders and technical leadership for technology and product development strategy.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager/Owner and the squad to draft quarterly OKRs and engineering KPIs
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

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).

About Medtronic

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