Staff System Architect (US Remote)

Company: Thermo Fisher Scientific
Location: Harrisburg
Posted on: January 26, 2023

Job Description:

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $35 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them.**Location/Division Specific Information**US Remote / Instrument and Enterprise Services - Digital Science**How will you make an impact?**You will be a business/domain and technology specialist who can develop an overall understanding of assigned technical or product areas, or solutions that involve various products or components. You will work closely with engineering teams to derive technical solutions and component-level designs for product development initiatives that are aligned with existing architectural designs and current business solutions, while also delivering customer and business value. Your focus will be to evolve our Thermo Fisher Connect platform which delivers a world leading digital framework for science via a coordinated suite of scientific instruments, applications, and services.**What will you do?**--- Collaborate with Engineering Leaders, Product Managers, Solution Owners, System Architects to analyze and understand business needs and establish comprehensive technical solutions; product and component-level design artifacts, integration touch points, system interfaces, dependency maps, and technical prototypes--- Design and implement cloud service and software architecture for new products and extensions to existing products in regulated markets; Be the group's "go-to" person for architectural, design and implementation related questions and provide mentorship--- Independently Envision/Design/Build innovative solutions for customer needs (moderate to sophisticated scope); Products & Services Conceptualization; POC Development; Prototyping; Perform feasibility studies--- Collaborate with Product Management team to develop functional requirements and specifications; able to understand, articulate and challenge the requirements; help them onboard and make efficient use of the platform--- Collaborate with software groups within Thermo Fisher to effectively integrate their applications into the company's platform architecture and build credibility--- Actively participate in various SAFE/Scrum ceremonies and lead Architecture vision every quarter--- Provide and support scrum teams to come up with an accurate estimation for technical work--- Educate engineers on good design & implementation principles and enforce design concepts throughout project lifecycle--- Participate throughout the software development process, including actual implementation phase as needed. Responsible for end-to-end technical ownership of the software products--- Build relevant architectural artifacts and work with delivery teams to implement them. Identify and mitigate technical risks; identify & resolve quality issues--- Participate in development community of practices in sharing and learning standard methodologies, lead initiatives within the community and involve in other organization initiatives--- Support hiring, training, & mentoring**How will you get here?****Education**--- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline; equivalent years of professional experience will be considered; Master's degree a plus--- AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional or equivalent certification**Experience**--- 5+ years of related experience in delivering technical solutions to sophisticated business problems; setting technical vision and direction for the development teams in Healthcare, Life Sciences, Biotechnology or Clinical domains--- Proven experience on Cloud computing using AWS such as S3, DynamoDB, SNS, SES, EC2--- Experience with cloud-based IaaS services including compute instances, server less, docker container orchestration, and virtual private cloud (VPC) services--- Demonstrated ability in developing Java/DotNet based web applications based on micro-services architecture (using Spring Boot or equivalent modules, REST APIs)--- Proficient in software architecture: multi-threading, synchronous, and asynchronous communications, data serialization, compression and encryption--- Strong programming concepts: object-oriented principles, design patterns, data structures and unit testing (TDD using junit), Domain driven Design (DDD)--- 5+ years of experience with databases (Postgres/MySQL/Oracle/NoSQL DB), persistence frameworks, SQL, GitHub, Docker, CI/CD frameworks (Jenkins), messaging middleware technologies - RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.--- Experience with defining and implementing Non-Functional Requirements (NFR-Security, Performance, Availability, Reliability, Cost, etc.)--- Experience in crafting and architecting large-scale, highly available distributed software; multithreading application development--- Technology and product evaluation experience--- Experience in automating system deployments and operationalizing production systems through robust monitoring capability**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**--- Highly knowledgeable in SAFe/Scrum--- Possess strong analytical, trouble-shooting skills; comfortable working as part of a large multi-functional, geographically distributed team; ability to meet ambitious timelines and software development schedules--- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey sophisticated information to both Non-technical and technical audiences; ability to effectively document artifacts**This position has been approved for relocation assistance.**Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.comThermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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