Senior System Software Architect

Position Summary:

The Senior System Software Architect is a pivotal technical leadership role responsible for providing expert guidance and thought leadership to X-Ray systems product software teams. This role involves creating solution designs consistent with the overall product architecture and offering technical guidance to development teams for complex medical device designs from the conceptual phase through to successful product launch.

Position Responsibilities:

•    Architectural Leadership: Lead system software architectural and design activities to ensure the on-time delivery of maintainable, quality products within cost, schedule, and performance constraints.
•    Requirement Translation: Ensure project teams translate market-driven requirements into robust and extensible system software designs, which flow down into lower-level component requirements and designs.
•    Technical Expertise: Act as a "big picture" technical expert within the project team to resolve cross-functional technical problems.
•    Trade-off Negotiation: Negotiate trade-offs (e.g., requirements and performance allocation among system components, implementation options, and costs) with teams and sub-teams across products/projects.
•    Strategic Collaboration: Collaborate with the Software Leadership Team on overall direction and strategies in defining the product software strategy.
•    Innovation Contribution: Contribute innovative ideas and solutions to help identify new product/feature opportunities.
•    Product Success: Collaborate with all members of product core teams to drive product success.
•    Customer Engagement: Work directly with customers/product owners to understand their needs and requirements, enhance communication, and build positive relationships.
•    Complex Implementation: Design and implement challenging and complex parts of the system.
•    Mentorship: Mentor software engineers, improving their technical skills and breadth of knowledge.
•    Agile Principles: Demonstrate experience with lean and agile software development principles and methods.
 

Required Skills & Education:

•  Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or in STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).
•  Experience: Minimum of 8 years of product software design and development experience working with cross-functional teams.
•  Leadership: Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Software Architect leading a technical team delivering system software for products.
• Lifecycle Experience: Successful product development lifecycle experience, from the conceptual stage through product launch and into post-launch support.
• Technology: 

o    C# & .NET 4.5
o    Windows 10
o    Visual Studio 2017
o    Web API
o    JavaScript frameworks (e.g. AngularJS)
o    ASP.NET, IIS, HTML5, CSS3
o    Unit Test Framework experience (NUnit or MSTest for C#, Jasmine for Javascript)
o    Object Oriented Analysis/Design
o    Ability to recognize and apply software design patterns
 

Desired Skills:

• Domain Expertise: Experienced in system software architecture with a history of developing digital X-ray equipment, its constituent technology, and related imaging science.
• Regulated Industry Experience: Experience with electronics/imaging/software for either medical devices (FDA 21 CFR Part 820, EU-MDR, IEC 62304, Design Controls…) or electro-mechanical devices in a regulated industry environment.
• Remote Collaboration: Ability to effectively interface with team members in remote locations and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
• Cross-disciplinary Interface: Able to effectively interface with all project disciplines including Research, Product Development, Service, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Marketing, and Quality.
• System Engineering: Familiarity with processes and procedures utilizing systems engineering and modern design methodologies and associated tools (Model-Based System Engineering).
• Problem-Solving: Systematic approach to problem-solving, root cause analysis, and issue resolution combined with a good understanding of relevant technologies and their practical applications.
• Communication Skills: Good oral and written communication skills.
• Concept Distillation: Ability to distill complex concepts into simple, concise, and clear terms.
• Technology:

o    Experience with Agile software development and scrum
o    Git (or related SCM tool)
o    Messaging technologies (e.g. WCF, MSMQ, etc.)
o    Platform based software development experience
o    nHibernate or related ORM technology
 

Work Environment:

Office