Solution Architect

At Alcon, we aspire to lead the world in innovating life-changing vision products because when people see brilliantly, they live brilliantly. As a global leader in eye care, we believe in innovating especially through cutting edge technology. We are on a journey to offer the widest array of eye care and eye health offerings with products that can treat the entire eye at each stage of life.

Our Surgical Smart Solutions team is responsible for building the cloud-based Digital Health Solutions (DHS) platform. This includes user-centric solutions such as SMARTCataract that help eye care professionals operate with greater efficiency, flexibility, and accuracy.

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 interacting with 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 of surgical smart solutions with the help of the product lead, business stakeholders, subject matter experts, and technical leaders
• 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
• Write technical documentation and effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals, and ideas
• 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

Key Requirements/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school+15 yrs; Assoc.+11 yrs; M.S.+4 yrs; PhD+3 yrs)
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand, and communicate in English.
• 7 Years of Relevant Experience
• Work hours: 40
• Travel Requirements: 10%
• Relocation assistance: Yes
• Sponsorship available: Yes

Preferred Experiences:

For this role, we are looking for someone that is

• Experienced: Experience (or interest) in developing solutions for healthcare and knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards like HL7, FHIR, and DICOM. Previously lead teams/projects
• Technical:
  • Comfortable working in SaaS and cloud native environments, container, and virtualization technologies (VM, Docker, Kubernetes), etc., with ability to design, deploy, and manage cloud-based solutions and deep understanding of cloud computing technologies/platforms (AWS)
  • Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g., Java, Python), application frameworks (django, WildFly, Spring/SpringBoot), and software development methodologies
  • Ability to make architecture design decisions at a team, product, and ecosystem level
  • Familiar with entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile Development, DevOps (e.g., CI/CD processes), and Scrum
  • Experience with modern front-end frameworks (AngularJS, React, etc.) and developing responsive SPAs using web frameworks

Total Rewards

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Pay Range

$132,560.00 - $198,840.00

Pay Frequency

Annual

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.