IT Manager, Commercial Data Strategy

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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.

 

 

About the role:

We are seeking a strategic, hands-on leader to oversee the Commercial Data Lake (CDL) program at Boston Scientific. In this role, you will own the vision, roadmap, and delivery of scalable, governed data products that support analytics and AI capabilities across a complex global environment. As IT Manager I, you will ensure delivery teams follow Agile principles and enterprise standards while transforming heterogeneous commercial data into activation-ready assets. This is a critical role at the intersection of data, technology, and business value — offering you the opportunity to lead platform evolution and directly impact our commercial insights and innovation.

 

Work mode:

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our local office at least three days per week.
 

Your responsibilities will include:

Own delivery of the CDL platform (ingestion, curation, modeling, secure serving) to enable descriptive and predictive analytics using modern cloud data stacks.
Collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to define requirements and ensure alignment to business outcomes.
Manage Jira, platform development workflows, and release governance to enable safe, repeatable delivery.
Oversee team resources and processes to design, plan, and support high-quality data products and services.
Maintain platform operations documentation and ensure processes are up to date.
Ensure compliance with validation, quality, and regulatory standards.
Lead end-to-end improvement programs across global and cross-divisional teams to enhance CDL capabilities.
Provide coaching and mentorship to team members; support their growth and remove execution roadblocks.
Champion Agile best practices and continuous process improvement to improve delivery velocity and quality.
Facilitate empowerment and team sustainability while maintaining high standards.
Communicate key updates, risks, and escalations to IT and business leadership regularly.
Deliver clear, timely status reports and lead presentations to senior stakeholders.
Lead, coach, and develop direct reports to achieve team and organizational goals.
Foster a diverse and inclusive work environment that enables all team members to contribute fully.
 

Qualifications:

 

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of 8 years' experience in IT and data domains, including leadership of data or platform engineering teams.
• Minimum of 8 years' experience operating mission-critical data workloads on AWS (e.g., Lambda, CloudFormation).
• Experience partnering with commercial business functions such as Sales and Services.
• Demonstrated strength in written, verbal, and presentation communication across technical and business audiences.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience with Agile methodologies such as SCRUM; PMI-ACP, CSM, or equivalent preferred.\
• Proven technical leadership with ability to guide software development and evaluate complex technical risks.
• Experience managing data warehouse/mart design and scalable data architecture.
• Demonstrated success in building secure, reliable data pipelines and sourcing external data.
• Familiarity with analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or SSRS.
   

Preferred qualifications:

• Previous or current Boston Scientific experience
• Extensive background in SDLC models and hybrid project management (Agile + traditional).
• Hands-on experience with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Rally, VersionOne).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Visio, and Microsoft Office suite.
• Salesforce.com Administrator and/or Developer certification.
• Creative problem-solver with strong attention to detail and the ability to maintain a strategic view.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, enterprise-scale projects across functional boundaries.
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification.
• SnowPro Core certification.
• Experience with tools such as Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, and StreamSets.