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In this role, you will design software architecture for digital healthcare solutions, selecting technologies, defining APIs, integrating systems, while advising development teams and ensuring quality.
Your role in the team
- We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Software Architect to define and drive the architecture of new digital applications and platforms within LivaNova's Essenz ecosystem.
- This role is pivotal in establishing a scalable, secure, and maintainable software foundation while ensuring alignment with product strategy, business objectives, and quality requirements.
- The Software Architect will guide architecture decisions across mobile, on-prem, cloud-based applications, and data management capabilities.
- Working closely with Product Owners, Software Engineers, QA Engineers, DevOps engineers, and external development partners, you will ensure successful delivery of modern and sustainable digital solutions in a regulated healthcare environment.
- Define and maintain the overall software architecture for digital solutions within the Essenz ecosystem.
- Establish architectural principles, standards, design patterns, and governance processes.
- Drive technology selection and long-term technical roadmap decisions.
- Design scalable solutions across mobile, on-prem and cloud.
- Define system interfaces, APIs, data flows, and integration patterns across internal and external systems.
- Support deployment architectures that scale from individual clinical environments to global deployments.
- Define the interoperability architecture for exchanging device and clinical data with hospital systems (e.g. EMR/EHR, LIS).
- Provide architectural guidance and mentorship to software engineering teams.
- Collaborate with Product Owners and Business Analysts to translate product requirements into technical solutions.
- Lead architecture reviews and ensure technical consistency across development teams.
- Ensure software architecture supports applicable regulatory, quality, and cybersecurity requirements.
- Partner with Verification, Quality, and Regulatory functions to support compliant software development practices.
- Promote secure-by-design principles, traceability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Create and maintain audit-ready architecture documentation (e.g. ADRs, C4 diagrams, arc42 documentation).
- Work closely with external development partners and suppliers.
- Review technical deliverables, architecture proposals, and implementation approaches.
- Ensure alignment on technical direction, quality expectations, and delivery objectives.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Systems Engineering, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, and Engineering leadership.
- Support strategic planning activities and represent software architecture in technical and management reviews.
- Contribute to the establishment of software engineering best practices across the organization.
Our expectations of you
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent, Master´s degree preferred.
Qualifications
- Proven track record designing complex software platforms and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, web and technologies, and software integration patterns.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity principles and secure software architecture practices.
- Knowledge of software lifecycle processes and standards such as IEC 62304 is desirable.
- Occasional Travel required.
Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in software architecture roles.
- Experience designing hybrid on-prem/cloud systems deployed into customer-controlled networks.
- Experience with API design, microservices, data management, and modern software frameworks.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience working with external development partners and geographically distributed teams.
- Experience in regulated industries such as medical devices, healthcare, life sciences, or other highly regulated domains preferred.
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About your employer
LivaNova is a globally operating medical technology company headquartered in London, with manufacturing sites in Germany, Italy, the USA, and Brazil. The company develops innovative solutions for difficult-to-treat depression, drug-resistant epilepsy, and cardiopulmonary applications. LivaNova aims to sustainably improve patients' quality of life through advanced technologies.
- Established Company
- Onsite
- Healthcare, Social Sector
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