System of Systems Architect (m/f/d) - Connected Health Platform
Fresenius Medical Care2 months ago
Bad Homburg, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and continuously evolve the end-to-end system-of-systems architecture for a connected healthcare platform.
- Define boundaries, responsibilities, interfaces, and data flows across devices, firmware, embedded software, edge platforms, backend services, APIs, and data platforms.
- Design scalable, resilient, maintainable, highly available, and observable distributed cloud-native systems.
- Define communication, integration, API, messaging, data architecture, data governance, and privacy patterns.
- Drive Security-by-Design and Privacy-by-Design, including identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, key and certificate management, and secure software updates.
- Translate business, clinical, regulatory, quality, and stakeholder requirements into technical architectures.
- Perform system-level architecture and cybersecurity risk analyses and define mitigation measures.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical governance, and architectural decision-making across products and engineering teams.
- Create and maintain architecture documentation and models using architecture diagrams, UML, SysML, and Architectural Decision Records.
- Evaluate emerging cloud, edge, IoT, cybersecurity, data-platform, and medical-technology capabilities and develop sustainable technology roadmaps.
Requirements
- Completed degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a comparable field; a Master's degree is preferred.
- 10+ years of experience designing and evolving complex distributed software-intensive systems, including several years in a lead architecture role.
- Proven experience architecting systems spanning connected devices, edge platforms, cloud services, APIs, and data platforms.
- Strong practical experience with Microsoft Azure, AWS, or a comparable hyperscale cloud platform.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, microservices, scalability, resilience, availability, and observability.
- Strong knowledge of REST, OpenAPI, publish/subscribe, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architectures, and message brokers.
- Strong cybersecurity architecture knowledge, including authentication, authorization, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, PKI, TLS, certificate management, key management, and threat modeling.
- Experience with Privacy-by-Design, data protection, sensitive or regulated data, GDPR, and HIPAA.
- Experience with data architecture, data modeling, data ownership, data governance, and API contracts.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience integrating embedded systems, connected devices, or active medical devices with edge and cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of medical-device and Software as a Medical Device regulatory requirements and quality standards is highly desirable.
- Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts to engineering teams, product stakeholders, and senior management.
- Excellent written and spoken German and English, with a structured, analytical, solution-oriented working style and strong stakeholder-management skills.
Benefits
- Individual opportunities for self-directed career planning and professional development.
- A culture that supports innovative thinking and finding the best solution.
- A highly engaged team with diverse skills, talents, and experience.
- The benefits of a successful global corporation combined with the collaborative culture of a mid-sized company.
- The role contributes to improving global healthcare access and patient outcomes.
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