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Medtronic · 7 hours ago

Senior Principal Architect - AWS

Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology, dedicated to championing healthcare access and equity. The Senior Principal Architect - AWS will own the serverless architecture for diabetes data processing and mentor engineers to enhance engineering practices across teams.

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Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end serverless architecture for ingesting, validating, processing, and storing diabetes data (PHI) from connected devices, mobile apps, and clinical systems
Mentor engineers and elevate engineering practices across teams
Design multi-channel ingestion using AWS serverless patterns: API Gateway + Lambda for app/API traffic, Event-driven workflows with EventBridge, Step Functions, SQS/SNS for decoupling, retries, and DLQs, Streaming pipelines via Kinesis Data Streams/Firehose; define schemas, versioning, and replay strategies, Define processing pipelines in Lambda/Step Functions (and EMR/Spark if needed for large transforms): Normalize, validate, deduplicate, and enrich time-series data (CGM/insulin events), handle clock skew, units, and data quality rules
Implement idempotent handlers, backpressure controls, and at-least/exactly-once semantics where appropriate
Expose secure APIs via API Gateway with OAuth2/OIDC, fine-grained scopes, consent-aware access, and full auditability
Architect storage and data models: DynamoDB for high-throughput operational workloads (session/state, telemetry indexes, consent/access metadata); design keys, GSIs, TTLs, and global tables as needed, Amazon DocumentDB for semi-structured clinical/event documents; define collections, indexes, and consistency/read/write strategies, Amazon Redshift for analytics and longitudinal studies; model distribution/sort keys, data marts, and federated queries (Athena/Redshift Spectrum), Amazon S3 as the data lake (raw/curated zones) with lifecycle policies, compression/columnar formats (Parquet), and Glue Data Catalog for discovery
Implement security, privacy, and compliance by design: PHI safeguards: encryption at rest/in transit (KMS, TLS), least-privilege IAM, VPC isolation, PrivateLink/VPC endpoints, WAF/Shield as applicable
Ensure reliability, observability, and performance: Define SLOs (ingestion latency, freshness) and build resilient, multi-AZ serverless designs with retries, DLQs, and circuit breakers, Instrument metrics/logs/traces (CloudWatch, X-Ray), alarms and runbooks; conduct load/performance and chaos/resilience testing, Optimize cold starts, concurrency, and throughput; apply caching and batching patterns when appropriate
FinOps leadership: Own unit economics (per million messages, per API call, per active device), forecasts, and variance analysis, Tagging/Cost Categories, CUR dashboards (Athena/QuickSight), Budgets/Anomaly Detection, showback/chargeback; service-level cost playbooks (DynamoDB capacity/table class, DocumentDB rightsizing, Lambda power tuning, log retention, NAT/data transfer reductions), and Savings Plans/RI strategy

Qualification

AWS serverless architectureAPI GatewayDynamoDBEvent-driven workflowsAmazon RedshiftAmazon S3Data modelingSecurity complianceFinOps leadershipPerformance optimizationMentoring

Required

Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience OR PhD with 6 years relevant experience

Preferred

Design multi-channel ingestion using AWS serverless patterns: API Gateway + Lambda for app/API traffic
Event-driven workflows with EventBridge, Step Functions, SQS/SNS for decoupling, retries, and DLQs
Streaming pipelines via Kinesis Data Streams/Firehose; define schemas, versioning, and replay strategies
Define processing pipelines in Lambda/Step Functions (and EMR/Spark if needed for large transforms): Normalize, validate, deduplicate, and enrich time-series data (CGM/insulin events), handle clock skew, units, and data quality rules
Implement idempotent handlers, backpressure controls, and at-least/exactly-once semantics where appropriate
Expose secure APIs via API Gateway with OAuth2/OIDC, fine-grained scopes, consent-aware access, and full auditability
Architect storage and data models: DynamoDB for high-throughput operational workloads (session/state, telemetry indexes, consent/access metadata); design keys, GSIs, TTLs, and global tables as needed
Amazon DocumentDB for semi-structured clinical/event documents; define collections, indexes, and consistency/read/write strategies
Amazon Redshift for analytics and longitudinal studies; model distribution/sort keys, data marts, and federated queries (Athena/Redshift Spectrum)
Amazon S3 as the data lake (raw/curated zones) with lifecycle policies, compression/columnar formats (Parquet), and Glue Data Catalog for discovery
Implement security, privacy, and compliance by design: PHI safeguards: encryption at rest/in transit (KMS, TLS), least-privilege IAM, VPC isolation, PrivateLink/VPC endpoints, WAF/Shield as applicable
Secrets and key management (Secrets Manager/KMS), rotation policies, and tamper-evident audit trails (CloudTrail, Config)
Ensure reliability, observability, and performance: Define SLOs (ingestion latency, freshness) and build resilient, multi-AZ serverless designs with retries, DLQs, and circuit breakers
Instrument metrics/logs/traces (CloudWatch, X-Ray), alarms and runbooks; conduct load/performance and chaos/resilience testing
Optimize cold starts, concurrency, and throughput; apply caching and batching patterns when appropriate
FinOps leadership: Own unit economics (per million messages, per API call, per active device), forecasts, and variance analysis
Tagging/Cost Categories, CUR dashboards (Athena/QuickSight), Budgets/Anomaly Detection, showback/chargeback; service-level cost playbooks (DynamoDB capacity/table class, DocumentDB rightsizing
Lambda power tuning, log retention, NAT/data transfer reductions), and Savings Plans/RI strategy

Benefits

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)
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)

Company

Medtronic

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Medtronic is a healthcare technology company that designs and develops AI-based products and solutions for the medical industry.

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$18.16B
Key Investors
NHS EnglandBlackstone Life SciencesTrade Capital Funding
2025-09-15Post Ipo Debt· $1.76B
2024-05-29Post Ipo Debt· $3.24B
2023-03-23Post Ipo Debt· $2B

Leadership Team

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Geoffrey Martha
CEO
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Linnea Burman
SVP & President, Neurovascular
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