POSITION TITLE: Principal Systems Engineer

BUSINESS UNIT: Engineering

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Architect, design, and implement distributed systems inclusive of embedded/IoT devices, middleware, mobile applications, hosted platforms, and interfaces to enterprise healthcare systems (MDI, EMR/HIS, etc.)
• Identify and Implement Risk Control Measures and Mitigations as the lead technical contributor for Risk Management activities
• Thoroughly document system architecture and design to support creation of medical device Design History Files
• Analyze and solve for fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges.
• Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions.
• Understand tradeoffs between consistency, durability, and costs to build solutions that can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
• Lead technical platform strategy and efforts for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that have an impact on an entire engineering function and solve large open-ended problems.
• Set the vision for strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs across the engineering organization.
• Proactively identify and remedy communication gaps and issues to reach alignments for complex issues across diverse audiences and influence organizational goals and strategy.

 REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Have significant experience (10+ years) in engineering scalable, multi-tenant environments
• Must have experience (5+ years) in medical device and agile development 
• Familiar with HIPAA policies and HIPAA-compliant systems  
• Experience with Enterprise healthcare systems (EMR/HIS systems, interface engines, MDI, etc.) 
• Deep exposure to Medical Device risk management process (ISO 14971), considers risks and mitigations in all design decisions
• Built and worked on complex distributed systems
• A deep understanding of design patterns
• You are an excellent communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to senior leadership and other engineers is no problem for you.
• Eagerness to tackle big problems that have unknown solutions at the outset and ability to navigate ambiguity 
• Natural inclination to demand rigor in everything you build, even while building fast and adapting plans as we grow.
• Inherent curiosity and ability to learn new technologies, plus the ability to figure out the best tools for a given problem.
• Focus on using data and objective, empirical methods to understand where we are and how to improve.
• Experience working on small, fast-moving, high capability teams.
• Experience designing and leading important systems software projects, using modern languages and technologies.