We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 19 Jul 2025

 

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

The Surgical Operating Unit Group brings our various surgical businesses together into one cross functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe.

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 do our work. We're working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite 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 sit at our Lafayette, CO office.

This position will lead a software development team in their day-to-day development activities, provide project planning, scheduling and tracking, and help drive functional excellence in project execution for the Surgical R&D Software organization. The candidate must be self-driven, with strong understanding of project management, the Software Development Lifecycle process and have strong technical and leadership skills.

The Software Engineering Manager is accountable for the overall health of the engineers on their scrum teams. This includes responsibility for building and maintaining a team with the right level of skills and experiences to meet the team’s business objectives. The Functional Manager is ultimately accountable for their teams’ performance and execution.

Day in the Life of a Functional Manager

Team Ownership:

• Managing and leading multiple teams of software technical leaders and software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and team development, preferably in the global distributed R&D environment settings.
• Management for Designing and developing software for complex electromechanical software systems, robotic systems, including embedded software development as well as RTOS, distributed computing, data applications, software Infrastructure, etc.
• Providing technical direction and guidance to the teams on the software architecture, design, verification and validation, ensuring alignment with product strategy and business goals; developing and maintaining long-term software technical roadmap.
• Collaborating and managing software projects in both Agile/Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and traditional project management methodologies. Collating metrics from program executions to help the team lead towards
• Provide project team members with a clear vision and purpose for the project. Create a positive tone and morale for the team.  Motivate team members and build project team identity and cohesion.  Ensure cross-discipline coordination and communication.
• Own and Manage execution against an aggressive but achievable project plan, provide project-related work direction to team members, work with peer managers/cross functional program team members to monitor dependencies and ensure that critical program milestones and deliverables are met.
• Collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams, including hardware, systems, quality, regulatory, clinical and other product development teams; Communicating technical information to both technical and non-technical audience.
• Experience in medical device or regulated industry software development is preferred.

Software Functional Management

• Contribute to the advancement of the Surgical R&D software organization by driving fresh ideas for process improvement in planning, development and the overall software product development.
• Meets with direct reports and stakeholders to assess individual technical skills and level of maturity/expertise
• Assesses individual performance, potential, criticality, and retention risk; creates opportunities to engage the engineer and reduce any retention risks
• Actively works succession planning for key roles on the team
• Challenges each engineer to focus on technical leadership and growth
• Identifying and implementing process improvements to enhance efficiency and productivity while adhering to quality standards and best practices.
• Develops talent pathways both for growth within the teams as well as withing the OU and
• Participates or leads, where applicable, in Talent Workstreams within the software department
• Collaborates with the SW leads / scrum master to understand vendor performance; works directly