Sr. Data Governance & Quality Systems Lead

Philips International; Plymouth (MA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips seeks a Sr. R&D Data Governance & QMS Lead to establish data readiness, governance, and quality processes supporting scalable AI innovation across programs worldwide. Responsibilities include governing software, AI, hardware data with privacy, security and regulatory compliance.

You will work with Legal, Privacy, Quality and Procurement to define data rights, residency, and controls, while ensuring de-identification, metadata, lineage, and audit readiness across datasets and partnerships.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading data governance and QMS processes in regulated environments (medical devices/healthcare).
• Experience embedding governance requirements into data intake, processing, de-identification, and release controls.

Responsibilities

• Establish and improve the data governance and QMS framework for software, AI, hardware-generated data.
• Lead governance and QMS workstreams across hospitals, research-sites, vendors, and data arrangements.
• Define data rights, residency, cross-border constraints, controls, approvals, and obligations with Legal, Privacy, Quality, Security and Procurement.
• Coordinate evidence, remediation, and audit readiness for audits and inspections.

Skills

HIPAA & GDPR knowledge

Data governance leadership

AI/ML data governance

Data residency & cross-border

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

9+ years of related experience in lieu of a degree

Job description

Job Title Sr. Data Governance & Quality Systems Lead Job Description

#ConnectedCare. This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.

As the Sr. R&D Data Governance & QMS Manager, you will establish the data readiness, governance, and quality processes that serve as the foundation for scalable AI innovation, ensuring datasets, partnerships, and platforms are compliant, reusable, and ready to support growth across multiple programs worldwide. Your role: Establish and improve the IGT Devices R&D data-governance and QMS framework for software, AI, hardware-generated, and experimental data. Define common standards, decision rights, federated stewardship, metadata, lineage, and quality. Lead the governance and QMS workstream for hospitals, research-sites, vendors, and cross-business-unit data arrangements through controlled release. With clinical and partnership leads and Legal, Privacy, Quality, Security, and Procurement, define intended use, data rights, residency, cross-border constraints, controls, approvals, and obligations. Embed approved requirements in data intake and processing through de-identification, access, data contracts, metadata, lineage, quality checks, release gates, regional or federated processing, retention, and deletion. Enable compliant reuse for software and AI. Operate stewardship, training, metrics, controlled documentation, and audit readiness; coordinating evidence, remediation, and continuous improvement for audits and medical-device inspections.

You're the right fit if:

You have acquired 5+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree (or 3+ years with a master's degree) leading data governance and QMS processes in medical devices, healthcare, life sciences, or another regulated environment, including federated stewardship, controlled documentation, training, and audit/inspection readiness.

Your skills include:

• Strong understanding and application of HIPAA and GDPR, including data residency, localization, cross-border transfer, regional processing, de-identification or anonymization, and re-identification risk.
• Expertise leading dataset-level privacy-risk assessments and translating findings into documented release decisions, permitted uses, and technical controls.
• Ability to translate governance and QMS requirements into technical controls and audit evidence; experience with AI/ML data governance required, with AI governance or risk management experience preferred.
• You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in data management, informatics, engineering, computer science, quality, regulatory, privacy, or a related field or 9+ years of related experience in lieu of a degree.
• HITRUST de-identification training or CIPP, CIPM, CIPT, CDMP, CRISC, or ISO/IEC 27559 certifications are a plus.

You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. This is an office role.

About Philips

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Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in MN is $129,000 to $205,000. The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity. In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here.

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future. Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Plymouth, MN.

If the applicant requires accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to fostering a culture where all are treated with respect and professionalism.

It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy/childbirth or related medical conditions, age, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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