Principal Cyber Information Assurance Analyst - Global IT Portfolio Operations

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 3 Feb 2025

 

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 LifeThis role will be filled by a US-based remote resource (work from home).

The Project Management Office in the Global Cyber Information Security Organization at Medtronic supports key cybersecurity initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and new risk management capabilities. The team provides governance, standardization, project quality and efficiency to strengthen our defense and promote a security conscious culture. Our mission is to identify, prioritize, and successfully implement a portfolio of projects, aligned with Medtronic’s strategic objectives, and integrated within our Global IT Portfolio Operations (GPO).

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.

CAREERS THAT CHANGE LIVES

• Responsible for all phases of multiple concurrent projects or a single large-scale, complex program
• Build trust and rapport with key stakeholders and facilitate executive (i.e. VP) level steering committees discussions
• Define program and/or project scope and objectives along with applicable project estimates, detailed work plans, schedules, and resource plans
• Provide leadership to multiple project managers to achieve program objectives with high-quality work products that are delivered on time and on budget
• Assesses, analyzes and implements information assurance and security engineering systems.
• Defines requirements for business continuity, operations security, cryptography, forensics, regulatory compliance, internal counterespionage (insider threat detection and mitigation), physical security analysis (including facilities analysis, and security management) to best protect company assets.
• Assesses and mitigates system security threats and risks throughout the program life cycle.
• Validates system security requirements definition and analysis.
• Verifies security requirements; performs system certification and accreditation planning and testing and liaison activities.
• Understanding of Agile methodology & Version Control.
• Utilize cybersecurity best practices to develop strategies for information assurance during design, manufacturing, and implementation processes.
• Ensure end results meet business and stakeholder benefit expectations
• Follow Medtronic’s quality system procedures to ensure compliance with system validation requirements.
• Foster strong working relationships between project team members
• Monitor and control project financial metrics and adjust where necessary to meet scope, schedule and budget expectations
• Follow the IT engagement management model as well as ensure it is aligned with corporate engagement models
• Ensure that Medtronic’s systems and the information on them are protected in accordance with Medtronic’s Information Protection Policies and Standards, as well as best information Protection practices.
• Follow Medtronic’s project management methodology and standard operating procedures
• Provide analytical guidance to project team in support of issue and risk resolutions
• Required to spend extended periods of time on computer-based work.
• Escalate project issues as appropriate

MUST HAVE (Minimum Qualifications)

• High school diploma (or equivalent) and 12+ years of experience

OR

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience or advanced degree and 5+ years of experience

NICE TO HAVE (Preferred Qualifications)

• Strongly Preferred:
  • Previous Medtronic experience
  • Broad knowledge of project management. Active PMP or similar accreditation
• Autonomy: Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager.
• Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower-level specialists.
• Organizational Impact: Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.
• May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.
• Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation.
• Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.
• Implements solutions to problems.
• Communication and Influence: Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.

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.

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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$125,600.00 - $188,400.00

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.

 

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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 90,000+ 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.

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.

If you are applying to perform work for Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic”) in any position which will involve performing at least two (2) hours of work on average each week within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, you can find here a list of all material job duties of the specific job position which Medtronic reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.