System of Systems Architect (m/f/d) - Connected Health Platform
Fresenius Medical Care3 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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About Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Medical Care develops and sells dialysis machines, dialyzers, and related disposables, and operates in-center and home dialysis clinics for people with chronic kidney disease. Its business combines product sales to healthcare providers with dialysis services reimbursed by insurers and health systems. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Bad Homburg, Germany, the company is publicly traded in Frankfurt and serves patients and providers worldwide.