Principal System Architect, PFE

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Cochlears mission is to help people hear and be heard. As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions Cochlear is dedicated to helping people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a world full of sound. We aim to transform the way people understand and treat hearing loss and innovate to connect people with future technologies. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to peoples lives. Learn and grow with us as we tackle the most complex challenges in helping more people to experience a lifetime of hearing.

• Define and shape endtoend system architecture for future medical device platforms

• Champion product family engineering variability modelling architectural reuse and scalability across R&D

• Act as principal technical authority influencing strategy innovation and system design

The Opportunity

The Principal System Architect PFE is a senior technical leadership role responsible for defining governing and evolving Cochlears end-to-end system architectures across complex medical device platforms. Operating at a strategic level you will anticipate future product needs identify architectural gaps and drive the development of scalable reusable system architectures that align with Cochlears long-term strategy.

This role is central to establishing and championing Product Family Engineering (PFE) practices across R&D. You will influence multiple product lines embedded technology platforms and research initiatives while ensuring architectural decisions meet regulatory quality and performance requirements.

Responsibilities include:

• Define and lead L1/L2 system architecture development across complex multidisciplinary medical device systems

• Establish architectural roadmaps aligned to Cochlears product platform and corporate strategies

• Champion Product Family Engineering practices including variability management architectural reuse and core asset optimisation

• Make systemlevel architectural decisions across multiple domains in ambiguous and complex technical environments

• Ensure system architectures meet current and future regulatory safety and quality requirements

• Apply modelbased systems engineering (MBSE) principles to document analyse and communicate complex architectures

• Identify and mitigate architectural risks with consideration of broader organisational and portfolio impact

• Provide senior technical leadership coaching and mentorship to architects engineers and subject matter experts

• Act as a bridge between system architecture embedded platforms R&T and product development teams

About You. As we grow our operations we are looking for people who share our passion delivering safe effective and high-quality hearing solutions. To add value to Cochlear in this role youll be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Extensive experience defining and delivering system architectures for complex products ideally in regulated environments

• Strong grounding in systems engineering and architectural principles including decomposition interfaces and integration

• Expertise in Product Family Engineering or architectural reuse strategies across multiple product platforms

• Understanding of medical device regulatory and standards requirements and their impact on system architecture

• Experience applying or championing MBSE approaches (e.g. SysML or similar modelling methodologies)

• Strong technical decision-making capability in ambiguous cross-functional contexts

• Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to diverse technical and senior stakeholder groups

What Would Make You Stand Out

Experience establishing organisationwide architectural practices or PFE frameworks or leading global architecture communities to improve reuse alignment and longterm system scalability across multiple product portfolios.

Why this role is for you

This role is for an architect who wants to influence at scale. Youll shape the structural foundations of Cochlears future hearing solutions drive strategic reuse and consistency across platforms and apply worldclass systems thinking to technologies that transform lives.

If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear please start your application by clicking the apply button below.

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How we recognise your contribution

At Cochlear we value and welcome the unique contributions perspectives experiences and backgrounds of our employees and aim to build a culture that celebrates and leverages these differences creating a sense of belonging and enabling our people to realise their full potential. Through our internal programs and employee benefits we aim to create an environment where our people will feel value and supported. Whether your focus is on continuous learning professional development or simply finding an environment which enables you to thrive whilst balancing family or personal life commitments then we have several programs in place to support you.

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