We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 29 May 2026

 

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

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
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Lafayette, Colorado
• Irvine, California (UCI)
• Jacksonville, Florida
• Fort Worth, Texas
• Memphis, Tennessee
• North Haven, Connecticut

This role will require 5% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

This role will be responsible for defining strategy, driving secure development practices, and ensuring robust security controls across modern cloud-native environments. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with leadership capability, enabling them to guide teams, influence stakeholders, and embed security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and cloud infrastructure at scale. This leader will partner with other security leaders to support core security functions like risk assessments, vulnerability management, and incident response while ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Working cross-functionally, they partner with development, infrastructure, and leadership teams to drive a strong security posture. The position also mentors security professionals and stays ahead of emerging threats to continuously strengthen organizational defenses.

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

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and mentor the application security team and a group of senior cloud security engineers

• Define and execute the organization’s application and cloud security strategy

• Partner with engineering, DevOps, and architecture teams to embed security into all stages of development

• Establish security KPIs, metrics, and reporting for executive leadership

• Provides leadership for those involved in the development, design and optimization of one or more information technology and systems functions supporting company business processes and technical information systems platforms.

Application Security Team Management

• Drive secure SDLC practices including threat modeling, code reviews, and security testing

• Oversee implementation of SAST, DAST, SCA, and API security tools

• Develop and maintain secure coding standards and developer training programs

• Lead vulnerability management and remediation efforts for applications

• Usually requires subject matter knowledge of user group for practical application of system characteristics.

• Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, analysis, selection and modification of enterprise systems, application software