Capability Architect, Engineering Lifecycle Systems (m/f/d)

Fresenius Medical Care

20h

About The Position

At Fresenius Medical Care, we are the global leader in kidney care, committed to improving the lives of patients with chronic kidney disease. Our mission is to deliver high-quality, innovative products, services, and care across the entire healthcare journey. Guided by our vision—“Creating a future worth living. For patients. Worldwide. Every day.”—we work with purpose and compassion, supported by a global team of over 125,000 employees. Our values guide how we work: We Care for our patients, each other, and our communities We Connect across teams and borders to deliver excellence together We Commit to doing things the right way— growing with purpose and leading kidney care with integrity and innovation As a key leader serving Agile product teams, the Capability Architect (m/f/d) will steer the creation of best-in-class customer experiences, business solutions and operational processes driving value for our customers, team members and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or engineering field
• Several years of experience in leading software product development in healthcare or minimum 5 years leading technology delivery within a business department.
• Previous experience in Product Development, Technical Project Management or Software Engineering is valuable and transferable
• Strong management skills with the ability to lead cohesive and productive teams
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of management through diplomacy and tact
• Proven applications functional knowledge, including relevant best practices of a large-scale PLM systems
• Knowledge in Azure DevOps and Agile principles
• Fluent in English and German
• Willingness to travel within Europe, Asia and US

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of CMII is an advantage
• Knowledge in our core systems (Windchill, Modeler, Thingworx)

Responsibilities

• Primary responsibility to create, elaborate, refine, and prioritize Agile team backlogs as well as to author user, defect, and enable stories within the team backlogs
• Develop detailed feature specifications, work instructions and training to ensure they’re clearly understood by relevant teams
• Drive efficient increment and iteration planning through clearly communicating product needs
• Write acceptance criteria and acceptance tests aligned with product value and team Definition of Done (DoD)
• Collaborate with team leadership to determine overall objectives for functional increments of team and program value delivery and report product progress
• Collaborate with capability and solution architecture to ensure effective dependency management
• Engage with architects and delivery managers to properly sequence release schedules
• Co-Lead team iteration demonstrations to stakeholders and sponsors of the Agile team
• Participate in increment and iteration retrospectives to help drive continuous improvement
• Engage with other capability architects and process owners throughout the overall delivery program to identify common blockers, improve quality and reduce time to release

Benefits

• There is a lot you can discover at Fresenius Medical Care, regardless in which field you are an expert and how much experience you have - all dedicated to your professional journey.
• Whether in front of or behind the scenes - you are helping to make ever better medicine available to more and more people around the world
• Individual opportunities for self-determined career planning and professional development
• A corporate culture in which there is enough room for innovative thinking - to find the best solution together, not the quickest one
• A large number of committed people with a wide range of skills, talents and experience
• The benefits of a successful global corporation with the collegial culture of a medium-sized company
• Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.
• Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees