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Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Digital Research Data Manager, Business Systems Analysis Manager
The Digital Research Data Manager plays a vital leadership role in advancing Mass General Brigham’s research mission by shaping the strategy, driving integration, and ensuring the operational delivery of enterprise research data platforms and services.
This position serves as a key connector between researcher needs and technical and data solutions, ensuring that research systems, data models, and access pathways are aligned with organizational research priorities, compliance requirements, and the long-term data strategy.
Reporting to the Director, Research Data within the Digital Research Operations Team, the Manager leads a team of analysts and data professionals responsible for supporting and enhancing core research data platforms such as RPDR, PDSR, and emerging research data hubs. The position provides oversight for new data integrations, maintenance of data ontologies, and ongoing application support, ensuring reliable, secure, and scalable access to research data across the MGB research community.
The Manager is accountable for translating complex research and business requirements into actionable technical work, prioritizing initiatives based on research impact, feasibility, and strategic value. This includes allocating team resources, managing deliverables, and ensuring that enhancements and integrations meet defined service levels and researcher expectations. The role is essential in coordinating across Digital, cloud, analytics, and governance teams to enable compliant data access while accelerating discovery.
In addition to operational leadership, the Manager, Research Data contributes to the evolution of MGB’s research data ecosystem by supporting future state platform planning, improving intake and triage of data requests, and strengthening partnerships with investigators, product owners, and enterprise stakeholders. Through people leadership, process optimization, and data driven decision making, the role ensures that research data services remain responsive, sustainable, and aligned with institutional and regulatory standards.
Qualifications
Key Responsibilities
Required
Supervisory Responsibilities
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Working Model Requirements
M-F Eastern Business Hours Full Time required
Hybrid model includes in person onsite work at MGB local sites, weekly or monthly, to be determined based on business needs
Must be flexible for weekly or monthly in person stakeholder meetings, team meetings and internal customer needs
On remote workdays, employees must use a stable, secure, and compliant workstation in a quiet environment. Teams video is required and must be accessed using MGB-provided equipment
Remote Type
Hybrid
Work Location
399 Revolution Drive
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Employee Type
Regular
Work Shift
Day (United States of America)
Pay Range
$117,707.20 - $171,204.80/Annual
Grade
8At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. Our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and any offer extended will take into account your skills, relevant experience if applicable, education, certifications and other essential factors. The base pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications; however, it does not encompass all elements contributing to your total compensation package. In addition to competitive base pay, we offer comprehensive benefits, career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable and recognition programs designed to celebrate your contributions and support your professional growth. We invite you to apply, and our Talent Acquisition team will provide an overview of your potential compensation and benefits package.
EEO Statement:
0100 Mass General Brigham Incorporated is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at (857)-282-7642.
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Mass General Brigham is an integrated academic health care system, uniting great minds to solve the hardest problems in medicine for our communities and the world. Mass General Brigham connects a full continuum of care across a system of academic medical centers, community and specialty hospitals, a health insurance plan, physician networks, community health centers, home care, and long-term care services. Mass General Brigham is a nonprofit organization that is committed to patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community. In addition, Mass General Brigham is one of the nation’s leading biomedical research organizations and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
