[Hiring] Lead Software Architect @Hologic

Role Description

The Lead Systems Engineer, R&D, manages large, complex, technically challenging products. They lead cross-functional project efforts requiring in-depth knowledge and decision-making analysis to develop, implement, or improve products. This individual has wide-ranging experience and uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways. Demonstrates sound judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria in proposing solutions and obtaining results. They build networks with key contacts outside their own area of expertise. The role requires systems-level expertise across medical imaging workflows, interoperability, DICOM, PACS, diagnostic displays, and enterprise infrastructure.

• Maintain and expand on an expert level of understanding of our products and their use in clinical practice.
• Drive a shared technical vision and contribute to the product, research, and sustaining, hardware, and technical roadmap.
• Ability to make effective tradeoffs between conflicting priorities.
• Influences the shaping of future products by contributing to the framework used across multiple products or systems.
• Provides guidance, subject expertise, customer insights, and project-related tasks.
• Defines needs, feature definitions, personas, use cases, system interfaces, acceptance criteria, and system-level verification needs for projects.
• Works closely with the Product Manager in marketing and the technical teams to deliver product value.
• Provides strategic leadership and technical guidance to teams across system design, integration, deployment, upgrades, sustaining engineering, and continuous product improvement.
• Continuously studies the market, investigates and evaluates existing technology, conducts literature research, engages with the customer, and seeks feedback.
• Promotes and leads the development of product knowledge and ideation throughout the organization.
• Builds and maintains relationships required to obtain deep knowledge of the customer, product users, business strategy, and market dynamics.
• Represents the voice of the end user within the design development cycle.
• Responsible for the definition and documentation of customer requirements.
• Leads the development and documentation of product features.
• Partners with the product marketing, service, quality, regulatory, and SQA in defining detailed product/platform roadmap.
• Provides technical leadership and is a strong contributor in the NCE, CAPA, and Audit process.
• Builds a workplace culture of continuous improvement.
• Maintains strong network and relationships with Marketing, Sales, PMO, Design Assurance, Clinical Affairs, and other functional partners.
• Establish collaborative relationships with all stakeholders.
• Grows professional and technical knowledge with an emphasis on creating innovative solutions.
• Builds a culture of agility and drives continuous investigation and development of potential product improvements.
• May contribute to the intellectual position of the company through invention and patent applications.

Qualifications

• Preferred Minimum Non-Technical Degree: College Degree
• Preferred Minimum Technical/Advanced Degree: Master’s Degree
• Preferred Minimum Non-Technical Experience: 8+ Years
• Preferred Minimum Technical/Advanced Experience: 6+ Years with Master’s Degree, 3+ Years with PhD

Requirements

• Expert level of understanding of our products, history of development, evolution, and their use in clinical practice.
• Working knowledge of FDA regulations, including 21 CFR 820.30 – Design Controls, ISO 14971, IEC 60601, IEC 62304, GMP and other standards.
• Clinical and technical knowledge and skills within the field of medical imaging technologies.
• In-depth technical expertise in systems engineering principles and methodologies.
• Ability to lead high-level architectural and technical discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, lead complex projects, allocate resources, and motivate cross-functional teams.
• Critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Strong understanding of DICOM, PACS, HL7, RIS, EHR/EMR, VNA, imaging modalities, and medical imaging workflows.
• Strong understanding of imaging workstation and enterprise hardware components.
• Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Strong influence management skills.
• Strong ability to create and deliver presentations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Benefits

• The annualized base salary range for this role is $119,300 to $186,600 and is bonus eligible.