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At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to make tomorrow better than yesterday and that makes it an exciting and rewarding place to work. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

As Principle Database Architect, you will be a part of our Global DBA team responsible for providing design and support. The Database Architect role is pivotal in establishing our Database As A Service model for cloud-based and on premise database deployments.

The Database Architect works as a part of a team of database architects, solution architects, engineers and business customers to bring industry best practices to database design, provisioning, automation, security, reliability and availability. This role will work with a Global IT team to engineer solutions to complex business problems while leveraging open source and traditional databases.

Your commitment to drive and managing high quality execution, operational excellence and delivering technology solutions that meet business needs and optimize customer experience will have a direct impact on the organization, and ultimately, affect the lives of millions.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

A Day in the Life

· Participate in a Global team of Database Architects, Engineers and Administrators to provide technical solution to projects that engage MDT database platforms.

· Provide hands on technical support across the various on premise and cloud-based database offerings.

· Participate in the design of our Database As A Service solutions for cloud-based database offerings.

· Participate in the design of our automated provisioning solutions for on premise and cloud-based database offerings using modern automation tools.

· Partner with various IT Infrastructure teams and to fulfill project needs while providing exceptional customer outcomes.

· Provide experience with database monitoring technologies for on premise and cloud-based databases including SQL Studio, Solarwinds, RDS Console and CloudWatch.

· Provide experience with desktop client tools including PGAdmin, DBeaver, HeidiSQL, Navicat, etc.

· Provide experience with database security products and techniques including auditing, encryption, virtual private databases, row level security, etc.

· Provide experience with enterprise backup and recovery tools and techniques for providing full, incremental, online, offline and transaction log backups.

· Work well with IT teams and Business Partners to identify and implement opportunities to improve database performance, reliability, scalability and availability.

· Willingness to contribute, learn and grow as a member of a team that supports a variety of technologies.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

· Bachelor’s Degree

· Minimum of 4+ years SQL Server database experience as Architect, Engineer or Administrator, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience.

· Minimum of 2 years’ experience with open source or cloud-based databases.

Nice to Have

o Microsoft Certification

o Recent experience with MS SQL Server 2022, 2019, 2017

o Recent experience with MongoDB, MariaDB, Hadoop, Snowflake or Oracle databases in addition to SQL Server.

o Recent experience with database computing on cloud-based platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP.

o Recent experience with IAM tools and automated security provisioning for on premise and cloud-based database technologies.

o Recent experience with automated database provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.

o Recent experience with scripting languages like Perl, PowerShell, BASH, KSH, etc.

o Recent experience provisioning databases on Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2 or Amazon RDS.

o Recent experience with modern backup approaches and tools including Netbackup or Data Domain for on premise and cloud-based databases.

o Significant database development or support experience with application development and implementation teams.

o Proficiency in Unix, Linux and Windows Server operating systems

o Knowledge of SQL commands for data retrieval and manipulation

o Understanding of various DBMS types (i.e., relational, columnar, non-relational)

o Proficiency in installation, configuration, and maintenance of different DBMS platforms

o Proficiency in data migration between different database systems

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

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. (ADA-United States of America)

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.