Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Software
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Waldbronn
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will define software architecture standards for instrument software and lead a team of architects to implement governance models and ensure seamless integration into the platform.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Agilent Technologies is transforming its software portfolio into a unified, AI-native lab platform. The Instrument Software Architect is a senior architecture leadership role responsible for operationalizing architecture strategy, governance, and standards across Agilent's instrument software portfolio.
- This role owns the platform architecture domain at the organizational level, establishing the processes, standards, and decision-making frameworks that guide how Agilent's instruments and software integrate into the shared software platform. You will own the Architecture Council, drive architecture governance across the portfolio, and lead a team of domain architects.
- Own and operationalize the architecture governance model for instrument software across the portfolio.
- Own the Architecture Council, the decision-making body for platform architecture, cross-domain standards, and design conflict resolution.
- Define and maintain software architecture standards, reference patterns, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
- Establish the processes and frameworks for architecture reviews, ensuring consistent quality and alignment across product teams.
- Define requirements and guardrails for instrument-facing architecture: interface patterns, acquisition design, performance, scalability, and testability.
- Partner with Engineering and QE leadership to ensure architecture standards translate into reliable, testable software delivery.
- Lead, develop, and coordinate a team of domain architects, enabling them to operate with clarity, autonomy, and alignment to platform strategy.
- Drive architecture modernization direction: from siloed, proprietary designs toward containerized, API-first approaches for cloud and edge.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of instrument software architecture: real-time acquisition, hardware interfaces, connectivity, and non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, reliability).
- Proven ability to lead and develop senior technical teams (architects, staff/principal engineers).
- Strong executive communication, able to frame architecture strategy and tradeoffs in business terms for senior stakeholders.
- Vertrautheit mit Plattformarchitekturmustern: Shared Services, API-Design, eventgesteuerte Architekturen, Data Streaming.
- Exposure to AI/ML integration at the platform or instrument level.
Experience
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in architecture leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience in operationalizing architecture governance at scale, standards programs, Architecture Councils, design review processes, or equivalent.
- Experience owning decision-making frameworks and driving alignment across multiple product teams or business units.
- Experience in scientific instrumentation, laboratory software, or regulated industries (life sciences, diagnostics).
- Experience with containerized deployment models (Docker, Kubernetes) across edge and cloud environments.
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What we offer
- This job has a full-time weekly schedule. It includes the option to work remotely.
- Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
- During the hiring process, a recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for a preferred location.
- Pay and benefit information by country are available at: https://careers.agilent.com/locations.
- Travel Required: 25% of the Time.
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Agilent Technologies
Agilent is a leader in the markets for biotechnology, diagnostics, and applied chemistry. The company provides laboratories around the world with instruments, services, consumables, applications, and expertise so that customers can gain the insights they desire. Agilent's expertise and trusted collaborations give them the utmost confidence in our solutions. Agilent focuses its knowledge on six key markets where we help our customers achieve their goals: food, environmental and forensics, pharma, diagnostics, chemistry and energy, and research.
Description
- Founding year
- 1999
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Pharmaceutical Sector, Chemical Industry, Biotech
Instrument Software Architect
- Location
- Waldbronn
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
