Technical Program Manager - Data Enablement
Medtronic
Summary
The Technical Program Manager, Data Enablement leads cross-functional programs that advance the organization's data and connectivity strategy across surgical capital products. This role is responsible for aligning stakeholders, coordinating technical teams and external partners, translating business and product objectives into actionable roadmaps, and ensuring delivery of data enablement capabilities that support product development, analytics, and connected-device initiatives.
Job description
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional data enablement programs across R&D, quality, regulatory, IT, and commercial teams, owning scope, schedule, dependencies, risk, and executive reporting.
- Identify, evaluate, and manage internal and external partners providing data, connectivity, and cloud services, including scope definition, deliverable acceptance, and ongoing performance management.
- Contribute to the definition of the ENT data strategy and translate it into actionable program roadmaps and prioritized backlogs.
- Partner with product, hardware, and software teams to define data requirements, telemetry specifications, and connectivity needs for surgical capital products.
- Guide project teams through trade-offs in data storage and data flow, including latency, security, scalability, and bandwidth in operating room environments.
- Guide the application of analytics, visualization, and statistical or machine learning methods that turn raw device and clinical data into insights, informing product decisions and demonstrating clinical and commercial value.
- Build alignment across nontechnical business and clinical stakeholders and technical engineering teams, and escalate and resolve blockers.
- Ensure data enablement programs meet Medtronic quality, regulatory, privacy, and cybersecurity requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in related technical field with 5 years of relevant technical program or project management experience OR a master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience
- Experience leading cross-functional technical programs from concept through launch, including ownership of schedule, dependencies, risk, and stakeholder communication across hardware, software, and quality teams.
- Experience delivering connected-device or IoT capabilities, including device-to-cloud data flows, telemetry, or connectivity services.
- Experience evaluating, selecting, and managing third-party technology vendors or partners, including scope and deliverable oversight.
- Experience translating business, clinical, or end-user needs into documented technical requirements and roadmaps.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in medical device development or another regulated product development environment, including design controls and phase-gate processes.
- Experience with surgical capital equipment, operating room environments, or hospital IT integration.
- Experience delivering integrations using healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR, DICOM) or EHR/EMR systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and storage architectures spanning cloud, edge, and local deployments (SQL/NoSQL, data lakes, time-series).
- Experience defining, or directing the definition of, telemetry schemas, data specifications, and logging requirements for hardware and software teams.
- Experience applying analytics, visualization, or statistical/ML methods to device or clinical data to inform product decisions.
- Experience developing products under FDA SaMD/SiMD guidance, ISO 13485, or ISO 14971.
- Experience applying data privacy and cybersecurity requirements to product data (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, UL 2900, FDA premarket cybersecurity guidance).
- Experience with enterprise data platforms and governance models, such as data warehousing, cataloging, or data quality frameworks.
- PMP, Agile, or SAFe certification.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in related technical field with 5 years of relevant technical program or project management experience OR a master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience
- Experience leading cross-functional technical programs from concept through launch, including ownership of schedule, dependencies, risk, and stakeholder communication across hardware, software, and quality teams
- Experience delivering connected-device or IoT capabilities, including device-to-cloud data flows, telemetry, or connectivity services
- Experience evaluating, selecting, and managing third-party technology vendors or partners, including scope and deliverable oversight
- Experience translating business, clinical, or end-user needs into documented technical requirements and roadmaps
- Experience in medical device development or another regulated product development environment, including design controls and phase-gate processes
- Experience with surgical capital equipment, operating room environments, or hospital IT integration
- Experience delivering integrations using healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR, DICOM) or EHR/EMR systems
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and storage architectures spanning cloud, edge, and local deployments (SQL/NoSQL, data lakes, time-series)
- Experience defining, or directing the definition of, telemetry schemas, data specifications, and logging requirements for hardware and software teams
- Experience applying analytics, visualization, or statistical/ML methods to device or clinical data to inform product decisions
- Experience developing products under FDA SaMD/SiMD guidance, ISO 13485, or ISO 14971
- Experience applying data privacy and cybersecurity requirements to product data (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, UL 2900, FDA premarket cybersecurity guidance)
- Experience with enterprise data platforms and governance models, such as data warehousing, cataloging, or data quality frameworks
- PMP, Agile, or SAFe certification
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-term Disability Leave
- Dependent Daycare Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
- 401(k) Matching
- Short-term Disability
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Incentive Plans
Company overview
Medtronic is a global healthcare technology leader and one of the world's largest medical device companies, founded in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates in over 150 countries and employs more than 90,000 people worldwide. Medtronic's mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life through innovative medical technologies. The company develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 70 health conditions, including cardiac devices, cranial and spine robotics, insulin pumps, surgical tools, patient monitoring systems, and more. With a rich history that began with the invention of the battery-powered pacemaker, Medtronic has grown into a diversified healthcare technology company with four main business units: Minimally Invasive Therapies Group, Diabetes Group, Restorative Therapies Group, and Cardiac and Vascular Group. The company's therapies help approximately 72 million people annually and represent a significant force in advancing medical technology to address some of humanity's most challenging health problems.