IT Architect Advisor - SAP Transformation and Delivery

About this role

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 21 Aug 2026   Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working onsite 4 days a week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. In your role, you may work from the following Medtronic sites:

• Mounds View, Minnesota (preferred/ideal) • Boston, Massachusetts • Mansfield, Massachusetts • North Haven, Connecticut

The IT Advisor – SAP S/4HANA Transformation (Technical Architect & Project Lead) is a senior individual-contributor leadership role within the Global IT SAP Center of Expertise. In this role, you will be accountable for architecting and delivering sub-projects within the SAP S/4HANA transformation roadmap; projects will include Master Data Governance, Data Migration & analytics solutions implementation and other enabling technology solutions across the SAP ecosystem. You’ll be accountable for high-level delivery accountability with hands-on technical architecture leadership to ensure solutions are scalable, compliant, secure, and aligned to enterprise architecture standards in a regulated medical devices environment.

Reporting into SAP CoE leadership, you will partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Quality/Validation, Data Platforms & Integration teams, SAP functional owners, external system integrators and SAP to deliver outcomes with strong scope discipline, quality rigor, and predictable execution. In-person collaboration is an important part of how we work. This role follows Medtronic’s hybrid onsite model in support of collaboration and professional growth.

As a trusted technical advisor and delivery owner for SAP transformation sub-programs, you’ll translate business demand into solution architecture, delivery roadmaps, integrated plans, and measurable outcomes. You will ensure disciplined execution across plan/build/test/deploy/hypercare phases, while actively managing vendor performance, scope, risks, and change controls.

As a technical architect, you will define end-to-end designs (data, integration, security, environments, extensions) and govern solution implementation. As a project lead, you will set expectations with system integrators, regulate delivery status, escalate quality/timeline concerns, manage contracts and invoices, and ensure deployment readiness and support transition.

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. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications to achieve long-term sustainable impact. Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.

Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare. Join us for a career in IT that changes lives.                     CAREERS THAT CHANGE LIVES SAP TRANSFORMATION SUB-PROJECT LEADERSHIP (MDG AND ENABLING SOLUTIONS) • Own delivery of assigned SAP transformation sub-projects (e.g., SAP MDG, data governance enablement, integration services, workflow automation, reporting enablement, and other SAP-adjacent technologies). • Establish and maintain project charters, delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, and success metrics in partnership with business stakeholders and IT peers. • Define, baseline, and manage scope, assumptions, and dependencies, ensuring clarity of commitments and outcomes. • Drive cross-team execution across platforms, development, testing, release/cutover, deployment, and hypercare, holding every team accountable to commitments.

TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE AND SOLUTION GOVERNANCE • Serve as the technical architect for assigned initiatives—defining target architecture, integration patterns, security approach, environment strategy, non-functional requirements, and operational support model. • Ensure designs align with: • Enterprise architecture principles • Integration, data, cloud, and security strategies

• Lead architecture reviews and govern technical decisions to ensure scalable, supportable, and compliant solutions across build and run. • Ensure delivered artifacts meet required standards: architecture diagrams, interface specs, technical designs, validation evidence, runbooks, and support documentation.

DELIVERY DISCIPLINE, STATUS GOVERNANCE, AND ESCALATION MANAGEMENT • Establish right-sized gov

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