Principal IT Architect - SAP Business Intelligence and Data Platforms
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 apply technology with purpose to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. The Principal IT Architect – SAP Business Intelligence & Data Platforms is a senior individual contributor within Global IT, responsible for designing and governing SAP‑centric analytics and data platform solutions that enable trusted insights, operational excellence, and regulatory compliance across Medtronic’s global enterprise.This role serves as a lead solution architect for SAP Business Intelligence, reporting, and data platforms, partnering closely with business, IT, and delivery teams to translate analytics needs into scalable, secure, and sustainable SAP data architectures.
This role is a senior individual contributor position, delivering impact through technical leadership, solution ownership, and cross‑functional collaboration.
Key Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Accountability
Lead the design and implementation of SAP Business Intelligence, Operational Data Store (ODS) and data platform solutions, including SAP BW, Datasphere, SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), Operational Data Stores, and related analytics capabilities.
Own solution‑level architecture integrity for assigned initiatives, ensuring alignment to Medtronic enterprise architecture standards, data governance principles, and quality expectations.
Design end‑to‑end data flows from source systems through transformation, storage, and consumption, supporting reliable reporting and analytics.
Business & Technical Partnership
Partner with business stakeholders, analytics teams, and data consumers to understand reporting and insight requirements and translate them into robust SAP BI solutions.
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, SAP CoE, and platform teams to ensure consistent use of reference architectures, patterns, and integration standards.
Set clear architectural expectations for development teams and IT vendors, reviewing designs and deliverables for quality and alignment.
Enterprise Standards & Governance
Apply and reinforce Medtronic‑defined architecture standards, data models, and reporting patterns across SAP BI implementations.
Participate in architecture reviews and governance forums, identifying risks, trade‑offs, and opportunities for simplification and reuse.
Support lifecycle management of SAP BI and data platforms, including enhancements, modernization, and decommissioning planning.
Complexity, Innovation & Problem Solving
Address moderately to highly complex challenges spanning analytics requirements, data quality, performance, and integration across enterprise systems.
Improve existing BI solutions by identifying opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve data reliability, and enhance user experience.
Balance innovation with Medtronic’s regulated‑industry requirements, ensuring solutions are well documented, secure, and audit‑ready.
Leadership Without Authority
Lead through expertise, influence, and collaboration rather than direct reporting relationships.
Provide guidance and mentoring to junior architects, analysts, and technical team members.
Contribute to building architectural capability and maturity within Global IT and SAP delivery teams.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree with 8–10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 6–8 years, consistent with Principal‑level expectations.
Strong experience in SAP Business Intelligence and data platforms, including SAP BW, SAP BDC, ODS, and reporting architectures.
Familiarity with SAP ABAP programming, data modeling, aggregation, and transformation data with CDS views
Proven ability to translate business reporting and analytics needs into scalable SAP data solutions.
Working knowledge of data governance, integration patterns, and analytics consumption tools.
Experience operating in large, global, and regulated environments with strong quality and compliance expectations.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA transformations or enterprise data modernization initiatives.
Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud and data lakes such as Databricks and Snowflake are an advantage
Familiarity with modern analytics and data platforms integrated with SAP ecosystems.
Demonstrated ability to influence outcomes and drive alignment across IT teams and delivery partners.
For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
Join us in our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—where your unique background and perspective are valued.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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