Senior IT Manager - Enterprise Integrations and Operations

Location

Mounds View, Minnesota and Fort Worth, Texas (on‑site 4 days per week)

The Senior IT Manager – Enterprise Integrations partners with IT and business stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and deliver the enterprise integration portfolio, ensuring seamless connectivity across systems and platforms. This role requires strong technical integration expertise and experience working with enterprise data to enable reliable data movement, transformation, and accessibility across the organization.

• Manage a portfolio of demand and projects from initiation to steady‑state, providing leadership to project management and technical resources to enable a scalable, maintainable, and supportable solution.
• Define and evolve the Enterprise Integration strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities, enterprise architecture, and long‑term technology direction.
• Own and drive the multi‑year integration roadmap, including platform rationalization, modernization, and capability investments.
• Identify strategic gaps across the integration landscape (tools, skills, operating model) and define target‑state capabilities.
• Act as a strategic advisor to IT and business leadership on integration patterns, platform choices, and trade‑offs.
• Partner and collaborate across the organization to define and maintain roadmaps to implement an AI‑centric ecosystem.
• Lead continuous improvement of the end‑to‑end integration lifecycle processes, including intake, estimation, design, build, testing, deployment, and support.
• Standardize and streamline demand intake, prioritization, and triage processes to improve speed‑to‑market and predictability.
• Reduce cycle time and rework by improving requirements gathering, design governance, and architectural decision processes.
• Define and track integration KPIs (cycle time, quality, reuse, cost efficiency, operational stability).
• Use data and insights to drive process refinements, tooling improvements, and operating‑model changes.
• Establish feedback loops with delivery teams, architecture, and operations to ensure measurable improvements over time.
• Ensure integrations meet the Gold Standard for security, data privacy, resiliency, performance, and observability standards.
• Oversee governance for architecture adherence, design quality, and non‑functional requirements.
• Enable consistency and reuse across multiple integration platforms and vendors.
• Partner with IT and business leaders to understand business needs and translate them into scalable integration solutions.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex integration, delivery, and operational issues.
• Manage and inspire a staff that consists of employees and contingents, providing leadership in goals/objectives, performance reviews, and mentorship.
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and operational excellence within Enterprise Integration.
• Build an inclusive, high‑performance culture aligned with enterprise Inclusion, Diversity & Equity commitments.
• Support portfolio planning, financial forecasting, and cost optimization for integration platforms and services.

• 7+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree.
• 5+ years of managerial experience.

• Previous Medtronic experience.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience including IT strategies, planning, change management, and stakeholder management.
• 10+ years of IT experience.
• 10+ years demonstrable hands‑on experience in integration, data, analytics, and/or application delivery.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with integration tools such as web Methods, Kafka, Informatica Cloud, etc.
• Thought leader who can see the big picture and is endlessly curious and a natural problem solver.
• Extensive and diverse delivery model experience.
• Ability to thrive and lead in an ever‑changing and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Self‑driven, independent, and strong leader who can deliver extraordinary outcomes from global teams comprising of internal employees, product vendors, and…