Boston Scientific Solutions Architect - WATCHMAN 

United States, Minnesota, Maple Grove 

231000585

About the role:

This role requires a unique combination of business acumen, technical expertise, and excellent communication skills. You will be essential in creating and maintaining the technical architecture that aligns with our business objectives and adheres to the corporate IT enterprise architecture vision and strategy.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Partner with multiple business stakeholders across the WATCHMAN franchise to understand their goals, visions, and strategies for their domains.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, designers, and product owners through discovery and workshops to gain an understanding of the business area, current workflows, and operational pain points, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Perform solution analysis, conduct research, and work with stakeholders to architect optimal solutions for new and existing systems by balancing business and user needs.
• Align divisional architecture with BSC corporate enterprise architects and relevant reference architectures.
• Produce solution proposals, including artifacts such as architecture diagrams, workflows, feature breakdowns, technology analysis, and cost/timeline implications of recommended solutions.
• Collaborate with data peers to understand the flow of and access requirements to data for the organization.
• Participate in the development of cost/benefit analyses and drive buy/rent/build analyses.
• Present proposals to stakeholders and governance entities to gain alignment, feedback, and approval to move forward with execution.
• Apply best practices and knowledge of internal/external business challenges to improve digital product solutions.
• Educate vendors to ensure they understand solution requirements and ensure vendor partners build products according to technical specifications.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, Business System Analyst, or similar roles.
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect, including requirements gathering, solution and option analysis, and providing recommendations.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and rapid prototyping.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS cloud services and tools.
• Demonstrated experience with software development, DataOps, and MLOps.

Preferred Qualifications and Competencies:

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, including oral, written, and listening skills.
• Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to quickly establish effective work rapport with distributed team members.
• Self-motivated continuous learner, willing to share knowledge and skills with other team members.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, self-directed, action-oriented environment.
• Background in the medical device or life sciences industry
• Experience with integrating or solving large complex systems.
• Experience in highly regulated environments.
• Experience with marketing, sales, R&D, and clinical applications.
• Experience embedding AI into digital solutions.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.