Information & Data Architect

Description

The company is a global healthcare technology business that develops medical technologies for patients.

The Neuroscience unit develops technologies for people living with neurological, spinal and chronic pain conditions.

The Digital Health platform team builds cloud-based software used across the Neuromodulation and Pelvic Health operating units.

The platform connects digital health applications, enterprise systems and data assets that support product development, regulatory compliance, quality, customer insights and business decisions.

The team builds scalable, secure and compliant data foundations for current therapies and future digital health work.

This role defines and governs the information architecture for the platform and leads data strategy, governance, modeling, integration and stewardship.

The role aims to keep data accurate, secure and accessible, in line with business, quality and regulatory needs.

You will be a cross-functional leader linking engineering, product, quality, regulatory and business teams, and you will support platform growth, reporting, analytics and future AI and machine learning initiatives.

The listed duties and qualifications describe the general nature of the role and are not a complete list.

Applications are expected to close on 3 Nov 2026.

Responsibilities

• Set out the logical information architecture for the Digital Health platform, covering business terms, metadata standards, data dictionaries and data models.
• Run cross-functional discovery and requirements work so platform features match what engineering, clinical, quality, regulatory, commercial and product teams need.
• Create and enforce enterprise data rules for ownership, stewardship, quality, lifecycle, documentation and traceability.
• Map data flows, integrations, dependencies and information exchanges between platform applications and enterprise systems.
• Work with software engineers to build architecture, governance, privacy, security and integration requirements into designs and delivery.
• Set up and maintain role-based access control (RBAC) and data access governance, working with Cybersecurity, Legal and business stakeholders.
• Maintain a catalog of data assets with owners, metadata and business context so data is easier to find and reuse.
• Set data quality metrics, monitoring and governance mechanisms that support regulatory compliance, reporting, analytics and future advanced data work.

Requirements

• Required: a bachelor's degree with 10+ years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, or a PhD.
• Required: if your bachelor's degree was earned outside the United States, it must satisfy 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A).
• Required: you must be able to meet the physical demands of the role, with reasonable accommodations available for people with disabilities. For office roles, you must be regularly mobile on your own, work on a computer and communicate with colleagues.
• Preferred: extensive experience with software architecture, APIs, enterprise integrations and software development lifecycles.
• Preferred: extensive experience with relational databases, SQL, logical data modeling, entity relationship diagrams and information architecture.
• Preferred: extensive experience with data warehouses, analytics platforms, reporting tools or cloud data ecosystems.
• Preferred: experience documenting complex systems, metadata, business processes and data flows.
• Preferred: strong analytical, communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Preferred: experience working closely with software engineering teams across the development lifecycle.
• Preferred: experience with data cataloging, metadata management, master data management (MDM), data stewardship and governance frameworks.
• Preferred: familiarity with HIPAA, FDA software lifecycle processes, privacy regulations and quality management systems.
• Preferred: experience implementing data governance frameworks or enterprise information management practices.
• Preferred: understanding of RBAC, identity management, authentication, authorization and information security principles.

Conditions

U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered only for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise fits long-term business needs.

Roles below the Principal level require unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the entire period of employment.

The company provides equal employment opportunity to all people regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, public assistance status, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic, and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Benefits

• The base salary range is $178,400.00 - $267,600.00 (USD) for U.S. locations, excluding Puerto Rico.
• The base salary range applies across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific California locations, and actual pay depends on experience, certification or education, market conditions and location.
• Pay and benefits information applies only to candidates hired in the United States; candidates hired elsewhere receive local market pay and benefits.
• This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan.
• Regular employees working 20+ hours per week receive health, dental and vision insurance, a health savings account, a healthcare flexible spending account, life insurance, long-term disability leave, a dependent daycare spending account, tuition assistance or reimbursement, and access to the Simple Steps global well-being program.
• All regular employees receive incentive plans, a 401(k) plan with employer contribution and match, short-term disability, paid time off, paid holidays, the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, the Employee Assistance Program, a non-qualified retirement plan supplement (subject to IRS earnings minimums), and a capital accumulation plan (for Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earnings minimums).
• Regular employees are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees receive paid sick time as required by state law and may join the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Some benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico. Full benefit details are available from the company.