Medtronic
Principal IT Technical Architect - SAP S/4 HANA Implementation Team
8200 Coral Sea St NE, Mounds View, MN 55112-4391
Full-time · $133k–$199k (as posted)
First seen by offpeak October 4, 2026
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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
At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working onsite 4 days a week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. In your role, you may work from the following Medtronic sites:• Mounds View, Minnesota
• Boston, Massachusetts
This role will require up to 15% travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.
Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare. Join us for a career in IT that changes lives. Medtronic is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture. Check out the accomplishments of our Women in IT group! http://bit.ly/MedtronicWomeninIT
In this role, the Principal IT Technologist - SAP BAIP is responsible for technical leadership and hands-on engineering across SAP ECC, S/4HANA, Fiori, Business Technology Platform (BTP), and associated application integrations. The role leads the end-to-end lifecycle of SAP development and extensibility solutions, from requirements and architecture through design, build, testing, deployment, production support, and optimization.
The role provides technical direction to internal and contract engineering teams, establishes standards and reusable patterns, ensures appropriate procedures and quality controls are followed, and leads strategic initiatives requested by SAP application and platform leadership. The successful candidate will deliver secure, scalable, maintainable, and clean-core-aligned solutions that optimize the organization’s SAP investment and support the transformation from ECC to S/4HANA.
- Lead and execute SAP BAIP initiatives across application development, integration, Fiori, BTP, custom-code transformation, and technical enablement, ensuring commitments are delivered on schedule, within budget, and to agreed quality outcomes.
- Balance hands-on technical expertise with leadership of internal and contract staff, including work assignment, technical coaching, skills planning, quality review, delivery oversight, and timely resolution of complex application or integration issues.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of SAP development and extensibility objects across ECC, S/4HANA, Fiori, and BTP, including technical analysis, design, development, unit testing, documentation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex risks and defects across ABAP, Fiori/UI5, OData, APIs, interfaces, workflows, forms, BTP applications, and SAP/non-SAP integrations in partnership with functional, BASIS, security, infrastructure, and vendor teams.
- Develop and maintain technical standards, engineering procedures, design templates, code-review practices, release checklists, and support documentation, and ensure they are consistently followed.
- Plan and participate in quarterly releases, transformation deployments, upgrades, regression testing, and production cutovers; execute assigned activities and provide technical leadership through stabilization.
- Define and implement clean-core and extensibility strategies for the ECC-to-S/4HANA transformation, including custom-code utilization analysis, remediation, retirement, in-app extensibility, and side-by-side extensions on BTP.
- Provide technical expertise and direction for effective application operations, including monitoring, root-cause analysis, performance optimization, incident prevention, defect reduction, and support readiness.
- Collaborate with functional leads, product teams, architects, business stakeholders, security, integration teams, and managed service partners to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and supportable technical solutions.
- Influence technical direction and roadmap decisions for SAP application engineering, BTP services, integration patterns, Fiori experience, development tooling, DevSecOps, automation, and reusable platform capabilities.
- Serve as liaison to SAP, technology vendors, and technical support teams to escalate, analyze, and resolve product, platform, integration, or engineering issues.
- Ensure solutions comply with company policies, regulated-industry controls, security and authorization requirements, SAP coding standards, architecture guardrails, transport controls, and application lifecycle management practices.
- Establish and govern quality controls such as ATC checks, secure coding, peer reviews, automated testing, performance standards, documentation, Git-based source management, and release traceability.
- Stay current on SAP technologies and recommend practical adoption of S/4HANA development models, RAP, CAP, CDS, Fiori Elements, SAP Build, integration capabilities, and BTP services where they improve business outcomes.
- Own SAP license management and optimization by maintaining accurate license and contract inventories, monitoring usage and compliance, governing license allocation, coordinating renewals and audits, assessing licensing impacts of technology changes, and reporting on demand forecasts, risks, and cost-saving opportunities.
- Establish and maintain SAP platform governance policies, architecture standards, design principles, and operational guardrails.
- Own SAP landscape planning and governance by managing environment lifecycle, capacity, utilization, refreshes, upgrades, and decommissioning; aligning environment availability with project and release schedules; establishing readiness and security standards; coordinating cross-team demand; and optimizing costs while reducing redundant environments and operational conflicts.
- Define and continuously improve the SAP release management framework, including release planning, change control, testing, approvals, deployment, and post-release validation.
- Partner with SAP operations and service management teams to improve platform stability, availability, performance, and supportability by establishing operational standards for monitoring, incident response, problem management, capacity planning, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery.
MUST HAVE (Minimum Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree
- 7+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree
NICE TO HAVE (Preferred Qualifications)
- Strong experience independently leading the end-to-end lifecycle of SAP development objects in greenfield and brownfield S/4HANA implementations or conversions.
- Demonstrated experience with ECC-to-S/4HANA custom-code analysis, remediation, optimization, retirement, and clean-core decision frameworks.
- Advanced SAP ABAP experience, including ABAP Objects, ABAP 7.5 syntax, CDS views and annotations, AMDP, RAP, enhancements, workflows, forms, interfaces, conversions, debugging, performance tuning, SPAU/SPDD, and ATC variants.
- Experience with SAP Fiori, UI5, Fiori Elements, OData, Gateway services, and application troubleshooting.
- Experience with SAP BTP architecture and services, Cloud Foundry, CAP, side-by-side extensibility, SAP Business Application Studio, APIs, GitHub or Bitbucket, and modern CI/CD or DevSecOps practices.
- Working knowledge of SAP integration principles and technologies, including IDocs, proxies, web services, APIs, events, AIF, and integration with non-SAP platforms.
- Good understanding of SAP business processes and technical requirements across SD, MM, FI/CO and, preferably, Production Planning and Plant Maintenance.
- Experience guiding contract staff or managed service partners and ensuring delivery quality, appropriate skills, knowledge transfer, documentation, and support readiness.
- Strong understanding of SAP security, authorization objects, secure development, vulnerability remediation, segregation of duties, and regulated-industry controls.
- Ability to explain complex technical solutions, architecture choices, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.· Excellent written and verbal communication, cross-functional collaboration, and independent problem-solving skills.
- Experience in the medical device, pharmaceutical, or another regulated industry; previous Medtronic experience preferred.
- SAP certification in ABAP, S/4HANA development, Fiori, BTP, integration, or related technologies preferred.
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.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship
At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.
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Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
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