Senior Principal Systems Administrator: Polarion
About The Position
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 31 Aug 2026. Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the Life Across our global Neuroscience organization, we advance care for some of medicine’s most complex neurological and spinal conditions. By combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, and deep clinical expertise, we partner with physicians and health systems to improve how patients are treated and supported throughout their care journey. Our Cranial & Spinal Technologies (CST) operating unit advances surgical care for spine and cranial conditions through an integrated ecosystem of implants, navigation, robotics, imaging, and planning tools. Platforms like AiBLE enhance precision, efficiency, and outcomes for complex procedures worldwide. Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic CST In this role, you would serve as the technical lead for Polarion and related engineering systems, supporting both the setup and ongoing maintenance of on-prem or AWS-hosted environments. You would partner with internal stakeholders and external vendors to design, implement, and integrate solutions, while also handling basic scripting, infrastructure support, and troubleshooting to keep the platform running smoothly. You would also help drive tool consolidation, support implementation efforts, and ensure engineering teams have the systems, documentation, and technical support they need to work efficiently.
Requirements
- Requires a technical Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
Nice To Haves
- Deep experience with Polarion or a comparable ALM platform, including basic scripting/customization
- Ability to set up, maintain, and support on-prem or AWS-hosted server environments
- Strong background building and supporting engineering systems infrastructure
- Proven vendor management and third-party implementation leadership
- Medtronic systems validation or other regulated validation experience
- Background in medical device, healthcare technology, or similarly regulated environments
- Knowledge of requirements management and testing workflows
- Experience with vendor selection, contract coordination, and implementation oversight
Responsibilities
- Installs, operates, manages, and maintains hardware and/or software, including administrator and service accounts, maintenance of system documentation, tuning system performance, backup/recovery, and other planned configuration changes.
- Interacts with users and other stakeholders to plan and implement changes and deliver support across all R&D teams.
- Contributes to evaluation and recommendations for vendor products, manages and monitors policies and standards for the use of computing resources, and executes on programs and projects within a specific IT function.
- Administration of Server, Polarion, Infrastructure, Workflows, AWS and DevOps, Project Management
Benefits
- 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
- 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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
