Senior AI/Data Science Engineer

As a Senior AI/Data Science Engineer at Medtronic, you'll be a vital part of our data engineering team, responsible for deploying, monitoring, and supporting our cutting-edge data mart platform. You'll leverage your expertise in Big Data technologies, cloud platforms (AWS), and automation to build scalable solutions that directly impact patient lives. This role offers the exciting opportunity to apply your entrepreneurial mindset and technical skills to optimize customer experience and drive meaningful innovations within the healthcare technology space.

A Day in the Life

You will drive data platform excellence and innovation by:

• Working independently under limited supervision to deliver robust solutions.
• Implementing CI/CD patterns for deploying and administering the data platform, ensuring efficient and reliable releases.
• Setting up proactive monitoring and alerting systems to maintain platform health and address issues swiftly.
• Creating automation to enable a self-service model for developers, enhancing productivity and agility.
• Troubleshooting production issues with a strong problem-solving mindset, ensuring minimal downtime.
• Using platform metrics to provide guidance on right-sizing infrastructure, optimizing performance and cost.
• Collaborating with IT and business partners to identify opportunities for improving existing processes and driving continuous enhancements.
• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers, fostering growth and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Creating tools and automating operational tasks to integrate the data platform with external systems.
• Participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation to ensure continuous platform uptime.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with 5 years of experience.
• Ability to take business requirements and work independently to deliver solutions using industry best practices.
• Strong security and data-privacy mindset.
• Core Python experience (Mandatory).
• Hands-on experience using Big Data Technologies like HDFS, Hive, and PySpark.
• Hands-on experience using Job Orchestration tools, preferably Airflow / Oozie.
• Strong Expertise in writing SQL Queries.
• 1-2 years of experience in AWS and AWS native tools such as S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR, Athena, and Step Functions.
• Experience with Source Control systems like Git/GitHub.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Experience automating routine tasks.
• Strong written and verbal communication & presentation skills.

Nice to Have

• AWS Certified Data Engineer.
• Working experience in CI/CD processes and tools like Azure DevOps.
• Working knowledge on IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools like Terraform.
• Previous healthcare industry experience.
• Experience working with CI/CD tools (beyond Azure DevOps).
• Other AWS certifications.

Benefits & Compensation

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. We are committed to our employees, recognizing their contributions, and providing a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies, and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients lives. Help us shape the future.