AWS Principal Data Engineer

Additional Location(s):US-CA-Valencia; US-CA-Santa Clara; US-MN-Arden Hills

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit- High Performance

At Boston Scientific well give you the opportunity to harness all thats 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 well help you in advancing your skills and career. Here youll be supported in progressing whatever your ambitions.

About the role:

Boston Scientific was recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Workplaces for Engineers in 2026 reflecting a culture where engineers do meaningful work.

The AWS Principal Data Engineer is a senior hands-on technical leader and principal individual contributor responsible for designing building and evolving scalable reusable AWS data platform this role you will transform governed data into trusted production-ready data products that power clinical insights commercial analytics and AI-driven innovation.

Operating at the intersection of architecture engineering execution and governance automation you will shape how data flows from source systems through ingestion transformation quality enforcement and semantic enrichment. You will partner closely with data engineering platform engineering security site reliability engineering (SRE) DevOps and governance teams to deliver a modern data platform that operates as a product rather than a collection of siloed solutions.

As a principal-level individual contributor you will establish technical direction define reusable patterns and influence engineering standards across teams through expertise architecture leadership and mentorship.

Work model sponsorship relocation:

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. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.

This is a defined-term position with an anticipated duration of 24 months from the employees start date. Based on business needs and individual performance there may be an opportunity for this role to be considered for regular full-time employment in the future.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Design reusable AWS data platform architectures and lead the implementation and migration of complex data pipelines supporting governed ingestion batch streaming change data capture (CDC) event-driven processing and data product delivery ensuring validated cutovers and stage-gated reconciliation.
• Translate governance requirements into automated platform capabilities including data contracts schema validation data quality controls lineage capture metadata management and access enforcement.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code modules CI/CD templates and Terraform-based provisioning frameworks that enable scalable secure and governed platform deployment.
• Architect and implement platform capabilities for security observability resiliency and cost management including encryption identity and access management (IAM) telemetry service-level objectives (SLOs) and cost attribution.
• Design governed lakehouse and data product patterns using AWS-native services and open table formats including Apache Iceberg to support scalable analytics AI workloads and enterprise data products.
• Evaluate emerging technologies document architectural decisions and establish engineering standards that advance platform maturity scalability and operational excellence.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews reference designs and mentoring enabling engineering teams to adopt best practices and deliver predictable high-quality solutions.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science data engineering information systems or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 13 years experience in data engineering including a minimum of 6 years experience designing and delivering cloud-native data platforms in AWS.
• Minimum of 4 years experience building scalable data platform solutions including infrastructure-as-code CI/CD data integration (batch streaming and CDC) and governance automation such as data contracts quality controls lineage and access management.
• Demonstrated expertise with AWS data services including S3 Glue Athena Lambda MSK Kinesis DynamoDB RDS Redshift EMR Step Functions DMS ECS Lake Formation and DataZone.
• Production-level experience with Snowflake.
• Strong programming and platform engineering expertise using Python Terraform Bash and distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark and Flink.
• Experience with advanced data architecture and modeling concepts including knowledge graphs ontologies semantic layers and GenAI-enabled data solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a principal-level technical leader by establishing standards influencing architectural direction and driving adoption across multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Preferred qualifications:

• Masters degree in computer science data engineering or a related technical field.
• Knowledge of modern lakehouse and data governance technologies including Alation Atlan DataHub Informatica or Databricks.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms including governed analytical workspaces and model lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with regulated industries such as medical devices healthcare or life sciences.

Requisition ID:630230

Minimum Salary:$106800

Maximum Salary: $202900

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) see vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training pertinent education including licensure and certifications among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly) non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g. any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt non-sales roles may also include variable compensation i.e. annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

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Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years we advance science for life byprovidinga broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular respiratory digestive oncologicalneurologicaland urological diseases and conditions. Learn more atand follow us onLinkedIn.

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment hiring assignment promotion compensation and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race religion color national origin citizenship sex sexual orientation gender identity gender expression veteran status age mental or physical disability genetic information or any other protected class.

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 Companys policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.

Among other requirements Boston Scientific maintains specificprohibited substancetest requirements for safety-sensitive positions. This role is deemed safety-sensitive and as such candidates will be subject to a prohibited substance test as a requirement. The goal of the prohibited substance testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.