IT Architect Advisor - SAP - KJ - medtronic

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, 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.

The IT Advisor – SAP S/4HANA Transformation (Technical Architect & Project Lead) is a senior individual-contributor leadership role within the Global IT SAP Center of Expertise , accountable for architecting and delivering sub-projects within the SAP S/4HANA transformation roadmap—such as Master Data Governance, Data Migration & analytics solutions implementation and other enabling technology solutions across the SAP ecosystem. This role combines director-level delivery accountability with hands-on technical architecture leadership to ensure solutions are scalable, compliant, secure, and aligned to enterprise architecture standards in a regulated medical devices environment.

Reporting into SAP CoE leadership, this position partners closely with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Quality/Validation, Data Platforms & Integration team, SAP functional owners, external system integrators and SAP to deliver outcomes with strong scope discipline, quality rigor, and predictable execution. In-person collaboration is an important part of how we work. This role follows Medtronic’s hybrid onsite model in support of collaboration and professional growth.

A Day in the Life – Role Overview

This role serves as a trusted technical advisor and delivery owner for SAP transformation sub-programs, translating business demand into solution architecture, delivery roadmaps, integrated plans, and measurable outcomes . The IT Advisor ensures disciplined execution across plan/build/test/deploy/hypercare , while actively managing vendor performance, scope, risks, and change controls.

As a technical architect, you will define end-to-end designs (data, integration, security, environments, extensions) and govern solution implementation. As a project lead, you will set expectations with system integrators, regulate delivery status, escalate quality/timeline concerns, manage contracts and invoices, and ensure deployment readiness and support transition.

Responsibilities

1) SAP Transformation Sub-Project Leadership (MDG and Enabling Solutions)