Senior Architect jobs at Boston Scientific in Costa Rica, Heredia

Costa Rica-Heredia

Hybrid Roles:

Job About the role:

Key Responsibilities:

• Process Analysis and Improvement: Analyze current credit operations and collection processes to identify areas for improvement. Develop and implement process enhancements to optimize efficiency and effectiveness.
• Data Analysis: Collect, analyze, and interpret data to support decision-making and process improvement initiatives. Provide insights and recommendations based on data analysis.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders, including finance, sales, customer service, and IT teams, to understand their needs and ensure process changes align with business objectives.
• Documentation: Create and maintain detailed process documentation, including process maps, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and training materials.
• Project Management: Lead and participate in projects related to credit operations and collections. Ensure projects are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Performance Monitoring: Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the effectiveness of process improvements. Provide regular reports to management on process performance.
• Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure that credit operations and collection processes comply with relevant regulations and internal policies. Identify and mitigate risks associated with process changes.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in process analysis, credit operations, collections, or a related field.

Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and software (e.g., Excel, SQL, Tableau).
• Experience with process mapping and documentation tools (e.g., Visio).
• Project management skills and experience.
• Knowledge of credit operations and collections best practices.
• Certifications: Relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Project Management Professional (PMP)) are a plus.

Costa Rica-Heredia

About the role

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior System Verification Engineer to join the Boston Scientific Neuromodulation R&D team. As a key member of the team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and performance of our neuromodulation systems through rigorous verification processes. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to verify features and system functionality against design requirements. Your expertise will drive the development and execution of comprehensive system level verification strategies, while collaborating with stakeholders to define design requirements and test methodologies.

This is a Hybrid role, located in Heredia and will require 3 days per week in the office.

Lead System Design Verification:

• Lead the verification of implantable and external Neuromodulation Product Systems with a focus on hardware/software integrated systems.
• Develop and implement verification plans, protocols, and test cases to ensure product compliance with design specifications and regulatory requirements.

Provide Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership on cross-functional verification efforts, including hardware, software, and system-level testing. Act as an R&D representative on cross-functional deliverables, ensuring alignment with verification objectives.

Collaborate with Stakeholders:

• Collaborate with stakeholders outside R&D to understand current and future market needs and incorporate these inputs into verification strategies. Translate high-level customer, business, and manufacturing needs into detailed verification requirements.

Develop and Support Verification Tools and Processes:

• Ensure effective development and support of verification tools, test environments, and automated test systems.
• Create, establish, and document verification processes and methodologies.
• Provide expertise and guidance for validation and verification activities.

Risk Management and Project Planning:

• Identify technical risks, develop risk mitigation plans, and implement phased verification approaches to mitigate risk.
• Act as a Technical Project Manager within the Systems Engineering function on assigned programs, performing detailed project planning, resource and budget planning, tracking, dependency and issue identification, and reporting.
• In all actions, demonstrates a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance to the Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures.

For those individuals that supervise others, the following statements are applicable:

• Assures that appropriate resources (personnel, tools, etc.) are maintained in order to assure Quality System compliance and adherence to the BSC Quality Policy.
• Establishes and promotes a work environment that supports the Quality Policy and Quality System.

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or more from an accredited school in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ Years of work experience in engineering with a Bachelor’s degree.

Experience in a Regulated Environment:

• 2+ years of work experience in a regulated environment, preferably in the Medical Industry.

Translating High-Level Needs into Detailed Requirements:

• Experience translating ambiguous and high-level customer, end user, business, and manufacturing needs/requirements into detailed verification/test objectives, protocols & scripts.
• Ensure that the verification process aligns with the overall goals and needs of the stakeholders.

Designing Verification Strategies:

• 2+ years of experience designing verification strategies for system-of-systems architecture, system interfaces, and integration.
• Develop comprehensive verification plans that address the complexities of integrated systems.

Advanced Statistical Analysis:

• Strong experience with advanced statistics, including T-Test, ANOVA, Gage R&R, Design of Experiments (DOEs), Response Surface analysis, probability, 6 Sigma, etc.

Technical Leadership and Stakeholder Alignment:

• 2+ years of experience in creating and aligning stakeholders to a vision, strategy, and designs for verification efforts that span multiple products.
• Lead cross-functional teams and ensuring that verification strategies are aligned with business and technical goals.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of programming/scripting languages such as Python, C++, LabView, Matlab.
• Solid understanding of EE concepts (Ohms law, DSP, analog / digital electronics)
• Ability to Architect Test Environments and experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), Dev Ops and CICD methodologies.
• Understanding of hardware-software integration.
• Fluent on the use of EE test equipment like oscilloscope, function generators, DAQ equipment.

Desired Requirements:

• 1+ years of direct experience working in the Technology Development (TDP) and Product Development (PDP) phases of the product lifecycle.
• Experience working with medical device microprocessors, ASIC, or SOC (system on chip) system architecture.
• Experience participating in system characterizations and trade-offs analyses for power budgets, data storage/transmission, battery selection, BLE antenna designs, lead/electrode designs for various use cases.
• Experience delivering software products both as a Medical Device (SaMD) and in a Medical Device (SiMD).
• Experience with Data Privacy and Cybersecurity for connected medical product systems.
• Experience participating in integration and overseeing collaboration among hardware, mechanical, electrical, algorithms, and software teams.
• Experience in algorithm and firmware development and product implementation.
• Experience leading R&D team failure analysis investigations, root cause identification, and driving process/product improvements.

Costa Rica-Heredia

Your responsibilities include:

Lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects from small to large scope, including schedule, scope, costs, and resources.

• Develops and implements overall project plan, including cost, schedule, risk and performance and monitors progress against business key objectives and goals.
• Identify prioritization and resource needs for assigned projects and activities with supporting cross-functions.
• Identify, communicate, and manage technical challenges and business risks.
• Drive and influence results by acting with speed, agility, and adaptability, assigning clear authority and accountability while integrating and aligning efforts across manufacturing sites and cross-functions.
• Provides structured thinking to project team on overall approach and delegates as appropriate.
• Directs and trains key project management processes.
• Leads the team in appropriate decision making through strong influence and the ability to analyze options and implications.
• Investigate and develop approach/solution to address technical problems with project teams.
• Direct control over activities and budget of one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups, projects/programs and/or operations.
• Foster a diverse workplace that enables all team members to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Provide timely communication on project progress updates to all relevant cross-functions and levels within the organization, including presentations to senior leadership.

Behavioral Skills:

• Strategic Thinking
• Communication
• Planning
• Influence
• Collaboration

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Engineering or Project Management.
• 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Small and large cross-functional project team lead experience.
• Must be willing and able to travel internationally ~10% of the time.
• Advance English Level
• Experience working on medical/manufacturing industries

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP certification.
• Previous Sustaining and/or product integration experience and/or knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and work together with a cross-functional, multi-site sites.
• Strong organization, execution, and communication skills.
• Candidate to be comfortable in front of all levels of the organization as well as external customers.
• Candidate to have strong leadership and interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships within project teams.
• Problem solving technical expertise.
• Medical device industry experience.

Costa Rica-Heredia

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to detailed analysis and documentation of processes with emphasis on information flow.

• Work with team members to translate process analysis into a detailed model configuration.

• Primary responsibility to maintain rigorous change control via the system.

• Advise and assist others with their role in the change control process.

• Work closely with all site and global resources to define and execute requested changes to existing configurations.

• Contribute to site and global system testing activities.

• Gain an in-depth working knowledge of the application and touch points with other site and enterprise level systems.

• Support for resources during initial launches and rollouts.

• Provide day to day support to existing implementations (on call support for application).

• Apply knowledge of business and industry best practices and how own area integrates with others to achieve objectives to drive results.

• Solves complex and diverse problems, takes a new perspective on existing solutions and exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information using specialized knowledge of various alternatives and their impact on the business

• Works independently within broad guidelines and policies, receives minimal guidance

Behavioral Skills:

• Well organized and capable of managing multiple priorities projects.

• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to effectively communicate with executive leadership

• Able to work on a team, in person, and in a collaborative virtual setting

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, self-directed, action-oriented environment.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Industrial Engineering or related field.

• 5+ years of IT experience working directly with business understanding requirements and then configure them in the software systems.

• Advanced English

• Submit Resume in English

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in life science or other regulated industry

• Experience with Salesforce Sales and Service Cloud

• Experience working with ServiceMax

• Experience in SAP Commerce Cloud/Hybris

• IT SOX Audit experience

Costa Rica-Heredia

About the role:

Your responsibilities will include:

• Serve as the IT point of contact for business

• Help develop and execute Compliance technology roadmaps and strategy for the Product Owner. Supports Product Owner with Internal Resource Planning for Product Team (management of vendor contracts, e.g. temporary/permanent resources)

• System Management and Maintenance : Ensure systems are functioning correctly and efficiently. This includes regular updates, troubleshooting, and maintenance to keep the systems running smoothly. Adhere to SLAs. Provide Product governance.

• Project Management: Lead technology in compliance projects, such as system upgrades, migrations, enhancements and implementations. This includes planning, coordinating, and executing these projects to ensure they are completed on time.

• Process Improvement: Continuously motivate the team to work more efficiently.

• Manage multiple vendor relationships where vendors execute business critical operations

• Be flexible with availability to manage system issues and coordinate with various cross functional teams

• Provide leadership in IT deliverables according to Boston Scientific Global Systems Methodology; Support problem solving and resolution to roadblocks

• Influence leaders and teams to deliver on plans

• Provide updates to management through frequent communications.

Required Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or relevant experience

• Minimum 6 plus years of experience in IT management

• English Advanced (C1 or more)

• Exposure/Familiarity to SaaS solutions as well as internally developed software applications

• The ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Must be able to work well in a complex, highly matrixed worldwide organization and be able to simplify that matrix for reporting and analytical purposes

• Proficiency in system integration, data management, and automation tools

• Scrum Master certification or relevant experience, knowledge of SDLC

• Strong MSOffice skills required

• Prior experience as a business analyst

• Attention to detail & data accuracy

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to work autonomously and act in a consultative role

• Continuous improvement mindset

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Costa Rica-Heredia

Your responsibilities include:

Lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects from small to large scope, including schedule, scope, costs, and resources.

• Develops and implements overall project plan, including cost, schedule, risk and performance and monitors progress against business key objectives and goals.
• Identify prioritization and resource needs for assigned projects and activities with supporting cross-functions.
• Identify, communicate, and manage technical challenges and business risks.
• Drive and influence results by acting with speed, agility, and adaptability, assigning clear authority and accountability while integrating and aligning efforts across manufacturing sites and cross-functions.
• Provides structured thinking to project team on overall approach and delegates as appropriate.
• Directs and trains key project management processes.
• Leads the team in appropriate decision making through strong influence and the ability to analyze options and implications.
• Investigate and develop approach/solution to address technical problems with project teams.
• Direct control over activities and budget of one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups, projects/programs and/or operations.
• Foster a diverse workplace that enables all team members to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Provide timely communication on project progress updates to all relevant cross-functions and levels within the organization, including presentations to senior leadership.

Behavioral Skills:

• Strategic Thinking
• Communication
• Planning
• Influence
• Collaboration

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Engineering or Project Management.
• 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Small and large cross-functional project team lead experience.
• Must be willing and able to travel internationally ~10% of the time.
• Advance English Level
• Experience working on medical/manufacturing industries

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP certification.
• Previous Sustaining and/or product integration experience and/or knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and work together with a cross-functional, multi-site sites.
• Strong organization, execution, and communication skills.
• Candidate to be comfortable in front of all levels of the organization as well as external customers.
• Candidate to have strong leadership and interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships within project teams.
• Problem solving technical expertise.
• Medical device industry experience.

Costa Rica-Heredia

About the role

Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining data engineering and analytical solutions that are easy to consume.

Job responsibilities include:

• Design, build, and deploy reports utilizing Power BI tool
• Develops or modifies data models, ETL processes, and BI tool solutions (SSIS, Python, GitLab).
• Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies.
• Develop and improve the current data architecture, emphasizing data security, data quality and timeliness, scalability, and extensibility
• Proactively recommends requirements and/or process improvements, automation opportunities and best practices
• Partners with business product owners to set and align business priorities
• Responsible for validating that the delivered product meets the strategic business objectives through activities such as demos, etc.
• Provide support on issues before, during, and after deployment
• Interacts with the business areas and production units to understand all data requirements to develop business insights and translates them into data structures and data model requirements to TEC Ops team

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years Data Engineering experience
• Well-versed in Agile Scrum
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to present solutions to business partners
• Medium to Advance English Level
• Please submit Resume in English

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Power BI and python preferred
• Experience with GitLab is a plus