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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

Senior Software Engineering Program Manager

Careers That Change Lives

At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

As part of Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICT), we are united by a shared purpose to bring life-changing therapies across Renal Denervation (RDN), Coronary and Structural Heart to more patients around the world. Guided by the Medtronic Mission—to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—we are building a more connected ICT organization that leverages the strength of our people, capabilities, and portfolio to drive meaningful impact for patients, physicians, and healthcare systems.

In this highly visible role as a Quality Core Team Member - Software Quality, you will serve as the primary Quality representative on cross-functional software product development teams, partnering with engineering, regulatory, clinical, and operations stakeholders to ensure quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.

You will provide quality leadership for software design controls, risk management, verification and validation activities, cybersecurity, defect management, and product release decisions while ensuring compliance with global quality system and regulatory requirements.

As a trusted member of the Core Team, you will help drive alignment, proactively manage risk, and enable effective decision-making across complex development programs.

You will also partner with Quality Systems, Regulatory, and functional stakeholders to further evolve the Quality Management System (QMS), enabling software innovation while ensuring continued compliance with global regulatory standards and industry best practices.

This role requires deep technical expertise, leadership, and collaboration skills to balance innovation, quality, compliance, and speed to market. Through a commitment to quality excellence and continuous improvement, you will play a critical role in delivering software-enabled products and supporting strategic programs across the ICT portfolio.

This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Coronary & Renal Denervation (CRDN) operating 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.

         

         

A Day in the Life       

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Senior Software Engineering Program Manager role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Responsible for program estimation and planning including identifying requirements, developing work plans, managing program annual and strategic budgets, building schedules, and partnering with team members to determine and communicate functional and/or resource requirements.
• Own and Manage execution against an aggressive but achievable program and/or project plan, provide work direction to team members, work with peer program managers, cross functional program team members to monitor dependencies and ensure critical program milestones and deliverables are met.
• Collaborate with Core Team Leaders, Platform Leaders, Product Owners, Human Factors Engineer, Architects & Systems Engineers to drive program within scope, cost, and schedule
• Lead team(s) of software engineers (employees and vendor resources) to deliver on program commitments
• Communicate program status and issues to internal and external stakeholders regularly including the Core Tam Leader and Development Lead in the Program Core Team as appropriate.  P