Senior System Architect

Our client’s Technology Solutions division is evolving. They are moving to a Product Operating Model – a new way of working that empowers product teams to take full ownership and accountability for delivering customer and business value in ways our customers love and that work for the business.

Our client’s product and platform teams are cross-functional and durable, bringing together all the skills required to deliver impactful outcomes. Each team includes a Product Manager, Technology Lead, Product Designer, Delivery Lead, engineers, and developers.

Join our client as they build the team that will develop and deliver our future generations of Vence Collar. A product rich in technological challenges across the multidisciplinary domains with its advanced system architecture and connectivity. You will experience the success of your work in costumers hands with short delivery cycles and quick costumer feedback.

Our client believes in customer centricity, ownership, and accountability. Solutions must be:

• Valuable – customers choose to buy or use them

• Viable – aligned with business constraints and goals

• Usable – intuitive and user-friendly

• Feasible – achievable with our technical capabilities

Leadership of the Product team is shared between the Product Manager and the Technology Lead, ensuring balanced guidance that bridges product vision and technical execution.

As Senior System Architect you will have significant impact on our client’s multi-disciplinary R&D projects, grow with them as they venture into new technologies and will lead work groups in their projects as part of the connected devices line of products during the product lifecycle of both discovery and delivery.

This role is a temporary contract position for 2 years. You will be required to work 37.5 hours per week and our client offers hybrid working (minimum 2 days onsite and the rest working remotely from home). The role offers a competitive hourly rate depending on experience (maybe negotiable), plus 25 days holiday pro rata.

Role Functions

The responsibilities will include defining System, HW, Embedded, ATE, SW & Integration requirements as well as contributing to the design stage of each discipline, defining the protocol, technical problem solving, proof of concept and field testing and assisting in tests design and investigations. The work will require collaboration with teams located in California USA and in Israel.

Experience, Skills and Knowledge

The position requires multidisciplinary understanding, ability to quickly grasp new technological aspects as well as constraints , the capability to work in a multi-site matrix organization and working closely in a Product and Platform team with other system engineers, embedded software developers, HW engineers, Integration Engineers as well as backend and front-end teams. As well as:

  • Ability to focus on what's important.
  • Organized and able to work well in a structured process environment
  • Strong desire for learning and innovation.
  • “hands-on” approach.
  • Excellent team player.
  • Good verbal & written communication Skills.

Qualifications & Education

Requirements

  • BSC/MSc in Electrical engineering or higher
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in system engineering of multidisciplinary systems
  • Experience in working with communication products, Embedded, HW, RF systems
  • Problem solver with good personal and teamwork skills.
  • Ability to understand complex IoT systems and quickly grasp new technical concepts with focus on challenges ahead and alternative comparison
  • Experience of working in complex multidisciplinary projects that requires a high level of technical know-how

Advantage

  • Experience with Linux environment
  • Experience in working with Atlassian suite and/or Azure DevOps
  • Experience with Agentic AI for discovery and innovation
  • Coding capabilities (C/C#/Java/Python)
  • Experience with RF communication technologies (BLE, WiFi, LTE-M, LoRa, etc)
  • Knowledge in backend systems and serverless solutions
  • Working with Cloud based infrastructure for IoT devices

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion. We appreciate your interest and wish you the best of luck in your job search.

Job Details

Company
Room At The Top Recruitment
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Competitive salary
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