Digital Solution Architect

Our Digital Health team plays an instrumental role in our push to improving customer experience with cutting-edge technology solutions. The team focuses on helping eye care professionals work effectively and improve patient outcomes by innovating the supply chain for critical eye care products and equipment (e.g., data ingestion and modeling techniques to forecast demand and automate decision making to reimagine inventory management).

You will be the visionary force behind our technical solutions and guide on technical design and requirements while working on exciting ideas with our product teams and leaders across the business. We are a new and fast-growing team which will give you the opportunity to shape our ways of working and culture - think start-up, but inside a global leader in eye care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design the overall technical architecture for Digital Heath team with the help of the Product Lead and Enterprise Architect
• Constantly look for better ways of solving technical problems and designing the solution, not afraid to challenge the status quo
• Develop proof-of-concept solutions, architectural diagrams, and specifications in response to business needs, and align technical stakeholders
• Responsible for technical design and infrastructure / environments strategy, including deployments, ensuring that these are kept in-line with an MVP mindset of 'emerging architecture'
• Define standards and guide technical teams on technology strategy related to coding quality standards, continuous integration, an automated deployment
• Collaborate with Product Managers to align product roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the technical stack, and share responsibility for building reusable and scalable components
• Participate in design and sprint reviews to identify and remove technical impediments, shape the trajectory of our products, and improve patient outcomes
• Manage technical priorities within the backlog effectively to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Responsible for creating and reviewing Application Architecture and provide technical leadership in the evaluation of Digital solutions to satisfy business and technical requirements.

Key Requirements/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +18 yrs; Assoc.+14 yrs; M.S.+7 yrs; PhD+6 yrs)
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand, and communicate in English
• 7 Years of Relevant Experience
• 5 Years of Demonstrated Leadership
• Work hours: 40
• Travel Requirements: 10%
• Relocation assistance: Yes
• Sponsorship available: Yes

Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.