Principal Data Scientist

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 15 Oct 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 Life

We are looking for a business-savvy Principal Data Scientist to support our Contract Performance Management business team, focused on transforming operational and contract-related data into actionable insights.

This role will report solid-line to business leadership, acting as an embedded expert within the commercial domain, with a dotted-line reporting to the IT Data Analytics & AI team.

This is a hands-on role, where you'll collaborate daily with functional leaders to frame analytical problems, identify data opportunities, build predictive models, and develop actionable dashboards and tools to support pricing strategies and contracting effectiveness.

In this role you will apply your data mining skills, statistical analysis and machine learning techniques, combined with business domain knowledge to bring value to the Contract Performance Management group.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do.

In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work.

We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Responsibilities may include and others may be assigned.

Analyze contract performance metrics (e.g., rebate utilization, contract compliance, pricing accuracy) to identify trends, anomalies, and improvement opportunities that drive decision-making based on strategic recommendations and operational efficiency.

Translate business questions into structured data problems and deliver analytical models and solutions that inform pricing and contract strategies.

Build and maintain analytic workflows, dashboards, and predictive models directly within Palantir Foundry (or similar platforms).

Ensure that analytical outputs are accessible, interpretable, and actionable by non-technical users.

Develop repeatable and scalable data science components within enterprise platforms that integrate tightly with contract performance operations.

Analyze large amounts of data to discover trends and patterns.

Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms.

Present information using data visualization techniques.

Collaborate with data architects/engineers and data analysts withing the IT group to achieve common project goals.

Extend the company’s data with third party sources of information when needed.

Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis.

Perform ad-hoc analysis and present results in a clear manner.

Must Have:

Bachelors degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Nice to Have: (Preferred Qualifications)

Minimum of 5 years of proven experience as a Data Scientist.

Analytical mindset and deep experience transforming data into business insights.

Proven experience developing and deploying data science solutions within enterprise-scale analytics platforms such as Palantir Foundry (strong plus), Databricks, Snowflake, Dataiku, Qlik, Alteryx, Tableau Prep, Azure Synapse, or similar.

Proficiency in Python or R is required for advanced data analysis and modeling tasks.

Hands-on experience building analytics workflows and models in low-code or no-code collaborative platforms.

Experience with data modeling concepts and data lineage in modern data ecosystems.

Proven experience developing machine learning models for predictive and prescriptive data analysis.

Experience in data visualization (Power BI/Tableau or similar)

Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra).

Problem-solving attitude.

Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Experience working directly with commercial, pricing, contracting or finance teams in a data science capacity.

Medical devices, healthcare or pharma experience.

Hands-on experience working with Palantir Foundry.

Experience with ontology and digital twin frameworks.

Proven experience with process mining frameworks (Celonis, UiPath,…)

BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field; graduate degree in Data Science or quantitative field is a strong plus.

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):120,800 - 181,200

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, andSimple 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), andCapital 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:

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 95,000+ 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 .

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 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.

Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations