Sr Principal IT Architect - SAP Order to Cash

Medtronic•Mounds View, MN

22h•Hybrid

About The Position

At Medtronic, you can embark on a life-long career of exploration and innovation, contributing to healthcare access and equity. The company fosters a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration, requiring employees to work onsite 4 days a week at specified Medtronic sites. This role, a senior individual contributor position within Global IT, is responsible for designing and governing SAP-centric analytics and data platform solutions. The Principal IT Architect – SAP Business Intelligence & Data Platforms will enable trusted insights, operational excellence, and regulatory compliance across Medtronic’s global enterprise. This involves serving as a lead solution architect for SAP Business Intelligence, reporting, and data platforms, partnering with business, IT, and delivery teams to translate analytics needs into scalable, secure, and sustainable SAP data architectures, delivering impact through technical leadership and solution ownership.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 8+ years, consistent with Senior Principal expectations.
Demonstrated mastery of SAP Order-to-Cash and Finance architecture, including master data, pricing, billing, revenue recognition, and financial reporting.
Proven experience architecting SAP solutions at scale in global, regulated environments with strong quality and compliance requirements.
Extensive experience governing and influencing system integrators and delivery partners, holding them accountable for architectural quality and outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformations, finance modernization, or global process standardization initiatives.
Strong understanding of SAP roadmap and modern finance, analytics, and data platforms.
Track record of enterprise-level influence without formal authority.
Proven experience leading SAP architecture for Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures in large, global, regulated enterprises.
Demonstrated success supporting carve-outs, integrations, and data separations while maintaining financial integrity and compliance.

Responsibilities

Operate with enterprise and global scope, influencing SAP transformation decisions across various businesses, finance, and enabling functions.
Own the end-to-end architectural integrity of SAP Order-to-Cash solutions, from master data and pricing through order fulfillment, supply chain, invoicing and financial close.
Ensure SAP solutions meet Medtronic’s requirements for quality, security, auditability, regulatory compliance, and long-term operational sustainability.
Enable architectural decisions with multi-year impact on Medtronic’s SAP roadmap and finance transformation strategy.
Lead SAP architecture strategy for Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures (M&A/D), ensuring rapid, compliant, and low-risk integration or separation of SAP Order-to-Cash and Finance capabilities.
Own architectural decisions for data carveouts, system integrations, landscape rationalization, and transitional service models, aligned with Medtronic’s deal timelines and regulatory requirements.
Serve as the enterprise SAP solution architect for O2C and Finance domains, providing architecture leadership across programs and initiatives.
Independently define solution architecture direction and design patterns, escalating only when decisions involve material enterprise risk, regulatory exposure, or significant financial impact.
Establish and enforce enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, and integration patterns across internal teams and system integration partners.
Architect integrated SAP solutions covering Master Data (customers, pricing, products), Order Management, Billing, Revenue Recognition, Accounts Receivable, and Financial Reporting.
Ensure strong alignment between business processes, SAP functional design, data models, and upstream/downstream integrations.
Drive consistency and simplification across global SAP landscapes to reduce technical debt and improve process efficiency.
Architect SAP solutions supporting entity integrations and separations, including master data harmonization, customer and pricing alignment, revenue recognition continuity, and financial reporting integrity.
Ensure business continuity and audit readiness during Day-1 readiness, TSA execution, and post-close optimization.
Address highly complex, cross-functional challenges that span commercial operations, finance, compliance, data governance, and legacy SAP environments.
Balance innovation with Medtronic’s regulated-industry expectations, ensuring solutions are audit-ready, well documented, and operationally robust.
Lead modernization of SAP and finance platforms while protecting continuity of mission-critical business operations.
Address highly complex, time-constrained M&A/D challenges spanning SAP data migration, dual-landscape operations, legal entity separation, and compliance controls.
Balance speed of execution with Medtronic’s quality, security, and regulatory standards throughout deal execution.
Lead through deep expertise, credibility, and influence, not formal reporting relationships.
Set architectural expectations for solution architects, functional leads, developers, and system integrators; review designs and outcomes for adherence to standards.
Mentor and develop Principal and Senior-level architects across Global IT and partner organizations.
Communicate architectural strategies, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to IT leadership, Finance leaders, business executives, and Quality & Compliance partners.
Represent SAP O2C and Finance architecture in governance forums, architecture review boards, and senior program discussions.
Serve as a trusted advisor translating business transformation goals into pragmatic, executable SAP solutions and an advisor to MA&D leadership communicating architectural risks, options and trade-offs to IT & business stakeholders.

Benefits

competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage
short-term incentive plan (Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP))
annual long-term incentive plan (Medtronic Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP))
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
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)