Senior Software Engineering Manager

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 push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work.

Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Patient Care Systems (PCS) organization develops the next generation medical technologies that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of patients across the world.

Join the PCS Software data services leadership team, where our charter is to build and develop high-performing data engineering teams to ensure products and programs are appropriately resourced and ensure continuous improvement in technical capability, process and compliance within our software ecosystem—including Information Systems Shared Services.

We seek a highly motivated, accountable software leader who is passionate about improving reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of data services. This leader will foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, accountability, and collaboration that advances engineering excellence, supports clinicians, and improves patients’ quality of life.

In this role, you will lead the data services software organization. As a Senior Manager, you will own multi-year plans to build and develop high-performing teams. You will manage engineering activities to ensure overall product quality, team staffing, and budget management. You will partner with Product Managers, Program Managers, Architects, and business leaders to prioritize investments and deliver measurable customer value. This role requires both strategic leadership and the ability to operate effectively in a highly dynamic, reactive environment—demonstrating technical depth, agility, and resilience.

This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) unit. 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 are working on-site 4 days per 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. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

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.                    

Job Description

A Day in the Life:

The Engineering Manager is accountable for the quarterly objectives and overall engagement of the organization. This includes responsibility for building and maintaining a team that consistently deliver software functional excellence. The Engineering Manager is ultimately accountable for their teams’ performance and execution. In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior Software Engineering Manager role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Build and develop high-performing Data Engineering teams through coaching, mentoring, hiring, and talent development.

• Manages activities to assure programs are appropriately resourced and ensure continuous improvement in technical capability, process, and compliance.

• Establish engineering best practices for quality, observability, security, automation, and operational excellence.

• Partner with Product Managers, Program Managers, Architects, and business leaders to prioritize investments and deliver measurable customer value.

• Champion modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, automated testing, and data quality engineering.

• Improve platform reliability, performance, scalability, and cost optimization.

• Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, accountability, and collaboration.

• Partner closely with PCS Product Management to prioritize backlogs and shape them into executable multi-year roadmaps and release plans.

• Directly manage 3–6 scrum teams including performance management, compensation planning, career development, and ongoing coaching and feedback.

• Drive initiatives addressing software technology advancements, component obsolescence, and product continuity, while ensuring compliance with software, cybersecurity, and regulatory standards.

• Maintain strong, collaborative relationships with external software, and technology vendors to ensure alignment, quality delivery, and long-term partnership success.

• Engage regularly with business leaders and engineering peers to ensure alignment on product roadmaps, capabilities, and execution strategies in support of evolving business needs.

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Qualifications-

MUST HAVE - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or math and minimum of 7 years of technical work experience OR advanced degree in science, technology, engineering, or math, with 5 years of technical experience and 5 years of demonstrated managerial experience

Nice to Have

• Experience in Med-Tech.

• Ability to manage geographically distributed SW development teams.

• Business acumen: ability to think from a patient-first and overall “what’s best for the business” perspective.

• Experience

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