Principal IT Architect - SAP Business Intelligence and Data Platforms

Medtronic•Mounds View, MN

19h

About The Position

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. 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. 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. We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning These commitments set our team apart from the rest: Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.

Requirements

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Benefits

Competitive Salary
Flexible Benefits Package
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
Simple Steps (global well-being program)
Incentive plans (Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP))
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)
Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)
Paid sick time (for temporary employees, as required under applicable state law)