Software Engineering Manager

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

 

This is a management role in R&D leading a high performing team responsible for the design and testing of electrical medical equipment software within the Interventional Oncology franchise of the Peripheral Interventions division.  This role interfaces with other functional managers (systems, hardware, Design Assurance, Regulatory, etc) as well as a global team of R&D engineers.

 

About the role:

This position is responsible for directing the activities of the software engineering function focused on developing software for electrical medical equipment.  This team’s primary activities are to create software requirements and design, implement the software, and test the software using various white box and black box approaches.  Throughout this process, the software engineering manager oversees the efficient, high quality design and testing of this critical medical device software. 

 

Your responsibilities include:

• Responsible for recruiting, coaching, and developing organizational talent

• Fosters a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives

• Creates an entrepreneurial environment

• Responsible for providing direction and guidance to exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments.  May supervise non-exempt employees

• Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action

• Demonstrates effective change leadership

• Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives

• Develops and executes organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills

• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, MDR)

• Makes decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve department objectives

• Responsible for developing, monitoring, and appropriately adjusting the annual budget for the department

 

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering and 5+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

• 2+ years of experience in direct management of software engineers

• Experience developing product software compliant with IEC 62304 standard

• Knowledge of Lean/Agile concepts including scrums, burnups, retrospectives, backlog, and minimizing WIP

• Knowledge of software engineering methods and tools (structured development, thread management, static analysis, unit/integration/verification testing)

• Knowledge of test automation systems for software development

• Knowledge of test protocol development

• Ability to develop partnerships with cross-functional areas within and outside of product development

• Design Controls expertise with particular focus on requirements, design, verification, and traceability
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing regulated, safety critical software

• Experience working with a global R&D team

• Experience prioritizing resource needs across competing projects

• Experience in leading change management initiatives

• Strong communication skills, including technical discussions at all levels

• Medical device experience in capital systems (e.g. imaging products) development with hardware/software integration

• Windows operating system configuration and management, including cybersecurity solutions

• Experience in medical ultrasound imaging

• Ability to interface effectively with customers to gather insights

 

 

Requisition ID: 572555

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