Senior Manager, Study Data Architecture (on-site)

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The Opportunity

Our medical devices help more than 10000 people have healthier hearts improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders and liberate more than 500000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

We are recruiting a Senior Manager Study Data Architecture to work on-site at our Maple Grove MN location. This role provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure high-quality compliant and efficient database configuration activities that support clinical trial execution and data collection objectives. The Senior Manager is accountable for the overall quality consistency and timely delivery of study database configuration activities across the clinical development portfolio ensuring alignment with organizational objectives data standards and study execution timelines. The Senior Manager drives the implementation and governance of database standards conventions and processes across studies and programs while ensuring alignment with organizational data strategies. This position partners cross-functionally with Clinical Data Management Clinical Data Analytics Data Systems and Study Management to ensure timely database delivery consistency in data collection and seamless support for downstream analytics and reporting.

What Youll Work On

Leadership and People Management

• Lead mentor and develop a team which fosters a culture of accountability collaboration continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Establish team goals performance expectations and development plans aligned with departmental and organizational objectives.
• Provide oversight of resource allocation workload management and capacity planning to support study and portfolio priorities.

Study Database Management Oversight

• Accountable for the overall performance quality and timely delivery of study database configuration activities across the clinical development portfolio proactively identifying risks resolving resource constraints and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Oversee the planning execution and delivery of clinical study database builds across multiple studies and therapeutic areas.
• Provide strategic guidance and issue resolution for complex database design and implementation challenges.

Standards Governance and Data Strategy

• Establish and enforce database development standards conventions and best practices across all clinical programs ensuring compatibility with analytical tools reporting platforms and internal applications.
• Ensure clinical databases are aligned and mapped to organizational common data models to support downstream analytics reporting and regulatory submission requirements.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on standardization operational efficiency quality scalability and automation.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Ensure direct reports effectively collaborate with cross-functional study teams and internal stakeholders to support study execution and data collection objectives.
• Oversee participation in protocol review study planning and study startup activities to ensure data collection requirements are accurately translated into database design and configuration.

Strategic Initiatives

• Contribute to departmental strategy and long-range planning related to database standards technologies operating models and organizational capabilities.
• Define and execute the strategic roadmap for study database management capabilities including standards governance technology adoption process optimization and organizational scalability to support the evolving needs of the clinical development portfolio.
• Champion the adoption of organizational common data models and standardized data collection frameworks to improve consistency reusability and analytical readiness across the clinical development portfolio.

Required Qualifications

• Associates degree
• 7 years related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in life sciences computer science information systems or related field or an advanced degree
• 8 years years experience in data systems or operations within healthcare life sciences clinical research regulated industries or related environments
• 3 years people leadership experience with demonstrated success developing coaching and retaining high performing teams.
• Experience leading teams responsible for data collection systems database configuration data operations business systems or comparable operational functions.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex work portfolios priorities resources and competing stakeholder needs
• Experience implementing standards processes quality controls and operational best practices.
• Strong understanding of data quality data governance and data lifecycle concepts.
• Experience working with common data models data standards or enterprise reporting and analytics teams.
• Proven ability to lead teams through organizational process or technology change while maintaining employee engagement and performance.
• Strong collaboration communication and stakeholder management skills.

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Senior Manager