System Architect (Andover, MA)

System Architect (Andover, MA)

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Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nepphew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living. If you have a passion for helping improve the lives of patients and an interest in leading teams to bring state‑of‑the‑art surgical visualization technologies to market, this might be the role for you.

Smith+Nepphew seeks a Systems Architect in the Sports Medicine business to lead system engineering activities for our next generation of surgical visualization products. System Architects at Smith+Nepphew provide technical leadership to new product development teams, working closely with cross‑functional teams to understand underlying customer needs and rewards driving programs and conceptualizing and executing on solutions to meet those needs with our R&D teams.

What will you be doing?

• Provide technical project leadership to cross‑functional teams and drive engineering activities through all stages of new product development.
• Define Systems Engineering strategy for your program, including appropriate requirement decomposition approaches, interface management strategy and integration plan.
• Act as Systems Engineering team lead for your program, working with a team of Systems Engineers to deliver a complete set of Systems Engineering deliverables.
• Clearly articulate and drive team alignment on program mission and stakeholder needs. Directly interface with users and other stakeholders to ensure an understanding of stakeholder needs.
• Conceptualize and create system architecture for next generation surgical visualization platform, including functional and physical architecture and interface definition.
• Drive architectural decisions on the program using trade studies or other data‑driven approaches. Manage cross‑functional team discussions related to architecture decisions.
• Champion and apply system architecture principles throughout product design and development to drive reliable, flexible, and maintainable systems.
• Provide guidance to R&D team members throughout development to ensure detailed product design is aligned with agreed system architecture.
• Drive integration activities including identification of integration goals and success criteria. Support hands‑on integration and stress testing throughout development.
• Support pre‑clinical and clinical evaluations, including human factors formative and summative evaluations.
• Oversee & support other systems engineering activities for your program including use case & requirement development activities, appropriate translation of use cases to downstream user stories and subsystem requirements, and development of verification strategies.
• Remain current with the Systems Engineering discipline and champion good Systems Engineering practice and improvement initiatives.

What will you need to be successful?

Travel Requirements

Travel requirements : none specified.

Benefits

Compensation

The anticipated base compensation range for this position is $123,263 - $213,950 USD annually. The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job‑related knowledge / skills, experience, and geographic location.

In addition to base pay, we offer competitive bonus and benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, medical leave programs, parental leave, generous PTO, paid company holidays, 8 hours of volunteer time annually, and a variety of wellness offerings such as Employee Assistance Program.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Smith+Nepphew provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

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