Principal IT Business Analyst

**Careers that Change Lives**

You enjoy being part of a global team that is designing and building data pipelines that combine and transform raw data into valuable action-based data products. You are proud, enthusiastic on the work you do and are always looking for opportunities to improve the data products our team makes. The Global Region Data & Analytics department is responsible for delivering all data products within the EMEA & APAC & AMER regions.

We are looking for a seasoned Principal IT Business Analyst to join our growing Data & Analytics team. You will play a critical role in shaping our data strategy, driving data-driven decision making across the organization, and leading the development of impactful healthcare analytics solutions. You will partner with stakeholders across various departments to understand their needs, translate them into technical requirements, and design and implement efficient and scalable data architectures, pipelines, and analytics solutions.

**A Day in the Life**
- Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- You will be the first point of contact for information needs and analytics capabilities towards the business stakeholders. You will need to consult with senior business leaders to translate business goals into data & analytics use cases and communicate insights back to business stakeholders.
- Participate as a business analyst in challenging projects related to data and analytics, this includes setting up communication plans, identifying information
- and visualization needs through workshops and prototyping sessions, explore new sources of data, document requirements for the technical teams and facilitate user acceptance tests and deployment tasks.
- Engage with IT technical teams and IT cross-functional teams to identify the best solution direction.
- Collaborate with our IT security and privacy department on data privacy and data compliancy related requirements.
- Proactively identify and drive new use cases and data-driven product innovations.
- Support the team with analytical and technical skills as well as with strong communication skills and a positive can-do mindset.
- Mentor and guide junior data analysts and business analysts.
Design Data Analytics, Business Intelligence and AI/ML data solutions.

**Must Have: Minimum Requirements**
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Systems Engineering or related field.
- 5 years of experience data analytics, data management.
- Fluent Advance English level.
- Strong interpersonal, oral, presentation, and written communication skills.
- Analytical mind and proven business domain knowledge.
- You love to work with data And transform raw data to actionable insights for the business.
- Strong business acumen and stakeholder management skills, strategic thinking.
- Agile mindset and familiar with Agile way of working.
- Extensive experience in gathering, documenting, and challenging business requirements.
- Ability to explain technical concepts in clear words to non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent presentation and (data) visualization skills.
- Outstanding team player with strong communications skills.
- Customer focused, able to operate on different levels in a complex organization.
- Pro-active, innovative, and strong sense of ownership.
- Passionate about data and analytics market trends.
- Accurate, result driven, flexible, pragmatic approach.
- Ability to manage multiple complex priorities.
- Strong decision-making abilities and problem resolution skills.
- Excellent leadership and teamwork skills.

**Nice to Have**
- Experience in Healthcare or Medical Devices industries is a big plus.
- (Strong) knowledge of the fundamentals of Business Intelligence and/or data warehousing (is a plus).
- Experience in Power BI or Tableu is a big plus.

**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 wi