AI/Data Science Engineer II

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.

A Day in the Life

Data engineers are mainly tasked with transforming data into a format that can be easily analyzed and extract relevant and actionable (business) insights. They do this by developing, maintaining, and testing infrastructures for data generation. Data engineers work closely with data scientists/Machine Learning researchers and are largely in charge of architecting solutions for them that enable them to do their jobs. Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Design & Build Data Pipelines: Architect, implement, and optimize ETL/ELT processes to ingest data from various sources (databases, APIs, streaming systems).

• Data Modeling: Develop and maintain logical and physical data models in data warehouses/lakes like AWS S3 & Athena or Oracle.
• Deploy and manage data infrastructure on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) using IaC tools to ensure scalability, reliability and cost efficiency.
• Data Quality & Governance: Implement data validation, monitoring, and alerting frameworks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and security of data assets.
• Collaboration & Documentation: Understand requirements, translate business needs into technical solutions, and document data schemas, pipeline designs, and best practices.
• Explore and integrate innovative data tools, including LLMs and agentic systems, into the existing data ecosystem to enhance analytics and automation.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering or related roles
• Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures, and data sets
• Strong understanding of ETL/ELT concepts and best practices

• Experience using LLMs and agentic tools for process automation
• Proficient in SQL and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
• Experience with big data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Hadoop)
• Hands-on experience with cloud data services (e.g., AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, GCP Dataflow)
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python (required), Scala, or Java
• Comfortable with shell scripting and command-line tools (e.g., Bash, CLI)
• Experience with version control systems, especially Git, including Git user interfaces (e.g., GitHub, GitLab)
• Experience with data transformation, metadata management, dependencies, and workload orchestration
• Knowledge of data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Customer-focused mindset with the ability to adapt to evolving needs
• Collaborative, proactive, and able to build trust with both internal and external stakeholders
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex, large-scale problems
• Curious, resilient, and motivated to continuously improve and explore new solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with real-time data streaming.
• Understanding of data privacy and security standards (GDPR, HIPAA).
• Exposure to BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI) and dashboard development.
• Certification in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Data Analytics, Google Professional Data Engineer, Azure Data Engineer Associate).

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. 

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).

About Medtronic

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here