Senior System Architect

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Defines and evaluates technical realization concepts for systems.

As Senior System Architect, Critical Care, you will report to the Head of Systems Development and Integration and will be responsible for leading definition and implementation of system architecture for critical care medical devices.

System Architect will conceptualize and create system architectures for Critical Care devices within the Point of Care (POC) diagnostics business of Siemens Healthineers, such that the system architecture can drive design of high-performing next generation systems as well as provide flexibility to support changes into the future as business and customer needs evolve.

Responsibilities

As System Architect, Critical Care, your primary focus would be on benchtop blood gas devices, and you will be responsible to:

• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in system architecture design for complex software-driven electro-mechanical systems, ensuring clearly defined functional and operational interfaces by engaging relevant stakeholders.
• Collaborate with systems, hardware/software engineering, assay scientists, and cross-functional project teams to plan technically sound system integration points, facilitating the timely realization of system solutions that ensure high reliability and quality.
• Provide technical inputs to systems design and integration planning, review design and process FMEAs, contribute to risk management activities, and drive root cause investigation FTAs as required for systems development.
• Drive the evaluation and selection of proposed solutions, facilitate tradeoffs, and development study approaches with respect to system architecture requirements.
• Continuously align system architecture against evolving user needs and business / market requirements, clarify understanding and technical feasibility, and translate them into product, system, subsystem and interface requirements.
• Assist in the creation of verification and validation plans and protocols to test solutions against requirements and user needs aligned with high level system architectures.
• Act as a key stakeholder and a guide to subject matter expert in technical reviews to assess and optimize viability of technical solutions based on design input requirements and cross-functional system specifications.
• Drive process improvements and best practices within the systems engineering function to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

• Minimum a Bachelor’s degree in science or in a technical field such as electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, computer science or equivalent. Advanced degrees preferred.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a product / systems development environment with a lead technical role and track record of delivering product / systems solutions from concept through design transfer to manufacturing.
• Experienced with influencing, guiding subject matter experts and key stakeholders to navigate successfully through project challenges while maintaining focus on DFX principles (X = Manufacturability, Testability, Reliability etc.) and system architecture.

• Experienced with utilizing systems engineering fundamentals to drive definition of system / product features working with Marketing, R&D, Informatics, and other cross-functional teams.

• Requires broad experience in systems design and development involving integration of hardware, software and consumable components, preferably for the purposes of automating and streamlining the process of analyzing samples (i.e., assay).

Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

• Strong knowledge of a development process consistent with ISO, FDA design control requirements, ISO 14971 risk management practices and IEC standards.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to the development and successful commercial launch of point-of-care diagnostics medical devices, such as blood gas analyzers.

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