Location: State of Pennsylvania, United States of America
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 13 Oct 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
The Principal IT Technologist will help support imaging annotation across CAS and R&T.
We are seeking a committed professional to join our team. While this is a remote position not located at a physical Medtronic site, the candidate hired will be required to reside within the territory and drive to multiple accounts throughout the region. A valid driver's license is essential for this role.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Develop, document, and configure systems specifications that conform to defined architecture standards, address business requirements, and processes
Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting hardware and software compliance and security standards
Evaluate interface between hardware and software, operational requirements and characteristics of overall system
Establish and document system design, parameters and formats, ensure hardware and software systems functionality, performance and compatibility, and coordinate and/or modify system parameters in terms of configurations, such as existing and projected computer capacity and capabilities
Actively identify system functionality or performance deficiencies, execute changes to existing systems, and test functionality of the system to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data handling, data integrity, conversion, input/output requirements, and storage
May document testing and maintenance of system updates, modifications, and configurations
May act as a liaison with key technology vendor technologists or other business functions
Function Specific: Strategically design technology solutions that meets the needs and goals of the company and its customers/users
Leverage platform process expertise to assess if existing standard platform functionality will solve a business problem or customization solution would be required
Gather and prioritize integration requirements
Test the quality of a product and its ability to perform a task or solve a problems
Perform basic maintenance and performance optimization procedures in each of the primary operating systems
Technology: Using computational thinking to define technological solutions to real life problems
Design technology that allows for the optimal user experience and broad accessibility
Ability to document detailed technical system specifications based on business system requirements
Requirements
7+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree OR 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree OR 12+ years of experience with a high school diploma or equivalent
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.
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