IT Forward Deployed Engineer Global Supply Management
About The Position
The IT Forward Deployed Engineer for Global Supply Management is a hands-on technology professional who works directly with business and IT teams to translate complex business challenges into practical, scalable technology solutions. The role designs and builds across IT platforms and applications, working from problem discovery through solution design, prototyping, integration, and implementation. IT Global Supply Management partners with Medtronic’s Global Operations & Supply Chain organization to enable and improve technology, data, and digital capabilities for procurement and supply management. The portfolio includes enterprise platforms, applications, data and integration capabilities, and emerging technology solutions. The engineer connects business processes, enterprise applications, data, APIs, automation, AI, and emerging technologies to accelerate outcomes while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, data, and technology standards. This position works onsite in Minnesota.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field and 4 or more years of relevant IT/software engineering experience; alternatively, an advanced degree and 2 or more years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing or delivering enterprise technology solutions involving software development, APIs, system integration, automation, or data platforms.
- Hands-on technical experience with modern programming or scripting languages.
- Experience working with cloud-based or enterprise technology platforms.
- For baccalaureate degrees earned outside the United States, a degree satisfying the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into technical requirements, prototypes, and scalable solutions.
- Experience working collaboratively across business, engineering, architecture, data, cybersecurity, and technology teams.
- Experience supporting procurement, sourcing, supplier management, supply chain, or Source-to-Pay processes and technologies.
- Experience with SAP S/4, SAP Ariba, Snowflake, Microsoft Azure, Power Platform, APIs or integration platforms, AI/GenAI, or intelligent automation.
- Experience rapidly developing proofs of concept, prototypes, or minimum viable products and transitioning successful concepts into production solutions.
- Understanding of enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data governance, DevSecOps/CI-CD, and software lifecycle practices.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to work directly with business stakeholders, understand complex operational problems, and communicate technical concepts in practical business terms.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Global Supply Management business leaders, product teams, architects, data teams, and technology partners to understand business problems and translate them into actionable technical solutions.
- Design, prototype, and deliver solutions using APIs, integrations, automation, data platforms, AI capabilities, and modern application development approaches.
- Develop proofs of concept and minimum viable solutions to test business value, technical feasibility, user experience, and scalability before broader implementation.
- Integrate solutions across enterprise platforms and data sources while supporting reliable, secure, and maintainable architecture patterns.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and vendor capabilities and determine how they can be applied to Global Supply Management business problems.
- Troubleshoot technical and process challenges across applications, integrations, data flows, and business workflows, working across organizational boundaries to drive resolution.
- Transition successful prototypes and solutions into sustainable enterprise capabilities in collaboration with architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, application support, and product teams.
- Create reusable technical patterns, documentation, and solution approaches to accelerate future delivery across the Global Supply Management portfolio.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Global well-being program
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan with 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
- Capital Accumulation Plan, available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums
- Medtronic Incentive Plan short-term incentive
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
