Top Entry Level Data Management Jobs in Boston, MA

Manage and curate clinical, biospecimen, experimental, raw, and derived scientific data for a biomedical research laboratory. Maintain institutional and cloud data resources and scientific websites, support open science and FAIR principles, contribute to grants and manuscripts, train lab members, and attend scientific conferences. The role requires careful data management, collaboration with researchers and engineering staff, strong communication, and the ability to manage shifting priorities in an in-person academic environment.

Leads R&D data stewardship across metadata, cataloging, data products, profiling, quality, governance, and compliance. Uses Informatica, SQL, Databricks, Python, and PySpark to curate data, automate workflows, define quality controls, and resolve complex issues. Applies AI-assisted stewardship and semantic data concepts while collaborating with technical and business stakeholders. Coaches other stewards, supports audit readiness, and improves stewardship standards and operating practices.

Manage and mentor a data engineering team while leading Snowflake-based platform architecture, enterprise data integrations, governance, observability, and pipeline reliability. Partner with analysts, business leaders, product management, and engineering teams to improve trusted self-service data access. Establish engineering standards, modernize the data stack, optimize costs, and deliver an AI-ready data foundation supporting analytics, reporting, and future AI initiatives.

Own the strategy, governance, architecture, modeling, and reporting foundation for People Experience data. Build governed metrics, semantic and consolidated data layers, dashboards, data catalogs, quality monitoring, and operating processes from the ground up. Manage intake, prioritization, access, privacy, enablement, and self-service adoption while partnering with stakeholders on analytics and future AI capabilities. The role combines strategic program leadership with hands-on SQL, data modeling, reporting, and team mentoring.