IT Technologist

Medtronic • Dexter, MI

2d

About The Position

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 This resource will play a vital role in ensuring the seamless integration of technology with healthcare solutions. They are responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining IT systems that support the development, manufacturing, and distribution of medical devices. This includes managing secure data systems, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA, FDA, GDPR), and enabling digital transformation initiatives. Key responsibilities include managing IT infrastructure, supporting software development, ensuring cybersecurity measures are in place, and optimizing data analytics platforms for operational efficiency. They collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, regulatory, and clinical teams, to ensure IT solutions meet both technical and healthcare-specific needs. The role requires strong technical expertise in areas like cloud computing, data management, cybersecurity, and software development, along with a deep understanding of the healthcare industry standards and regulations. This resource also drives innovation by leveraging emerging technologies such as IoT, AI, and machine learning to enhance patient outcomes and operational efficiency. Develops, documents, and configures systems specifications that conform to defined architecture standards, address business requirements, and processes. Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting hardware and software compliance and security standards. Evaluates interface between hardware and software, operational requirements and characteristics of overall system. Establishes and documents system design, parameters and formats, ensures hardware and software systems functionality, performance and compatibility, and coordinates and/or modifies system parameters in terms of configurations, such as existing and projected computer capacity and capabilities. Actively identifies system functionality or performance deficiencies, executes changes to existing systems, and tests functionality of the system to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data handling, data integrity, conversion, input/output requirements, and storage. May document testing and maintenance of system updates, modifications, and configurations. May act as a liaison with key technology vendor technologists or other business functions. Function Specific: Strategically design technology solutions that meets the needs and goals of the company and its customers/users. Leverages platform process expertise to assess if existing standard platform functionality will solve a business problem or customization solution would be required. Gather and prioritize integration requirements. Test the quality of a product and its ability to perform a task or solve a problems. Perform basic maintenance and performance optimization procedures in each of the primary operating systems. Technology: Using computational thinking to define technological solutions to real life problems. Design technology that allows for the optimal user experience and broad accessibility. Ability to document detailed technical system specifications based on business system requirements.

Requirements

• High school diploma (or equivalent) and 2+ years of experience

Nice To Haves

• Strongly Preferred:
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong communication skills, including communication with clients, upper management, and vendors
• Strong results orientation (driving to deadlines, financial targets, project goals, etc.)
• Ability to work collaboratively and partner with employees, leaders, clients, and vendors
• Broad business knowledge and experience
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Strong decision-making skills
• Ability to work independently and across sites
• Excellent presentation skills including the ability to translate highly technical information into business terminology
• Six Sigma/MPS experience.
• Project finance and budgeting experience
• Strong Financial acumen
• Stakeholder management experience
• Prior IT Manufacturing support experience
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Solid project management experience and familiar with project management tools
• Knowledgeable in project management methodologies
• Ability to develop relations across business/functions
• Ability to define requirements, manage scope and influence team members to deliver task
• Experienced in managing Data Center programs
• Knowledge of various infrastructure discipline

Responsibilities

• managing IT infrastructure
• supporting software development
• ensuring cybersecurity measures are in place
• optimizing data analytics platforms for operational efficiency
• collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, regulatory, and clinical teams, to ensure IT solutions meet both technical and healthcare-specific needs
• driving innovation by leveraging emerging technologies such as IoT, AI, and machine learning to enhance patient outcomes and operational efficiency
• Develops, documents, and configures systems specifications that conform to defined architecture standards, address business requirements, and processes
• Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting hardware and software compliance and security standards
• Evaluates interface between hardware and software, operational requirements and characteristics of overall system
• Establishes and documents system design, parameters and formats, ensures hardware and software systems functionality, performance and compatibility, and coordinates and/or modifies system parameters in terms of configurations, such as existing and projected computer capacity and capabilities
• Actively identifies system functionality or performance deficiencies, executes changes to existing systems, and tests functionality of the system to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data handling, data integrity, conversion, input/output requirements, and storage
• May document testing and maintenance of system updates, modifications, and configurations
• May act as a liaison with key technology vendor technologists or other business functions
• Strategically design technology solutions that meets the needs and goals of the company and its customers/users
• Leverages platform process expertise to assess if existing standard platform functionality will solve a business problem or customization solution would be required
• Gather and prioritize integration requirements
• Test the quality of a product and its ability to perform a task or solve a problems
• Perform basic maintenance and performance optimization procedures in each of the primary operating systems
• Using computational thinking to define technological solutions to real life problems
• Design technology that allows for the optimal user experience and broad accessibility
• Ability to document detailed technical system specifications based on business system requirements

Benefits

• Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
• 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).
• 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED