Data Architect (IRC282717)

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated R&D Data Engineer to support our R&D team in data management and development of complex electro-mechanical medical device systems. In this role you will use your technical and collaboration skills alongside your passion for data, innovation, and continuous improvement to help drive our product development forward.

• Design a systems level architecture for clinical, device, and imaging data and pipelines to support machine learning & classical algorithm development throughout the product lifecycle.
• Ensure architecture supports high-throughput image ingestion, indexing, and retrieval.
• Advance conceptual, logical, and physical data models for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Help define and document data standards and definitions.
• Implement governance frameworks that enforce healthcare and data regulations to data architecture (HIPAA, FDA Part 11, GDPR, etc.).
• Performs strategic validation tasks of data management tools and platforms
• Collaborate closely with data scientists, cloud data engineers, algorithm engineers, clinical engineers, software engineers and systems engineers locally and globally.
• Investigate, research, and recommend appropriate software designs, machine learning operations, tools for dataset organization, controls, and traceability.
• In all actions, lead with integrity and demonstrate a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance to all documented quality processes and procedures.

Job Responsibilities

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Biomedical Engineering or related field
• 6+ Years of relevant work experience with Bachelor's degree
• 3+ Years of relevant work experience with Masters or PhD
• 4+ years of consistent coding in Python
• Strong understanding and use of relational databases and clinical data models
• Experience working with medical imaging data (DICOM) computer vision algorithms and tools
• Experience with AWS and cloud technologies and AWS DevOps tools
• Experience with creating and managing CI/CD pipelines in AWS
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK
• Excellent organizational, communication, and collaboration skills
• Foundational knowledge in machine learning (ML) operations and imaging ML pipelines

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with software validation in a regulated industry
• Experience with Cloud imaging tools (ex. AWS Health Imaging, Azure Health Data Services)
• Working knowledge of data de-identification/pseudonymization methods
• Manipulating tabular metadata using SQL and Python’s Pandas library
• Experience with the Atlassian Tool Chain
• Data and annotation version control tools and processes
• Knowledge of HIPAA, FDA regulations (21 CFR Part 11), GDPR for medical device data governance.

Department/Project Description

The client is a pioneer in medical devices for less invasive surgical procedures, ranking as a leader in the market for coronary stents. The company’s medical devices are used in a variety of interventional medical specialties, including interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, vascular surgery, electrophysiology, neurovascular intervention, oncology, endoscopy, urology, gynecology, and neuromodulation.
The client’s mission is to improve the quality of patient care and the productivity of health care delivery through the development and advocacy of less-invasive medical devices and procedures. This is accomplished through the continuing refinement of existing products and procedures and the investigation and development of new technologies that can reduce risk, trauma, cost, procedure time and the need for aftercare.