System Domain Architecture Lead Engineer

ASML•San Jose, CA

1d•$196,500 - $288,200

About The Position

As a System Domain Architecture (SDA) Lead Engineer in San Jose, you provide technical leadership by developing system-level architectural concepts, performing technical analyses, driving cross-domain alignment, and enabling architecture realization across products and programs. You work closely with System Domain Architects, System Engineering, MDU Architects, technical leads, and development teams to translate product requirements, customer needs, and business objectives into robust architectural solutions. Your work supports architectural decision making, technical trade-off analysis, interface management, and integration planning. You help maintain architectural consistency across disciplines and subsystems through technical studies, architecture reviews, risk assessments, and roadmap alignment. You contribute to the development of system architectures for one or more products and support multiple MDUs through technical leadership, architecture execution, and cross-functional alignment. You influence technical direction through expertise and collaboration, and support architectural governance and technical excellence throughout the product lifecycle. The role supports system domain architecture development and realization by ensuring architectural consistency, technical coherence, integration readiness, and effective technical decision making across products and development teams.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or a relevant technical field.
Typically 10 or more years of experience in complex multidisciplinary system development.
Experience working across multiple subsystems, engineering disciplines, or business lines.
Proven experience leading technical initiatives across teams and organizational boundaries.
Strong experience in systems engineering, system architecture, integration, or technical leadership roles.
Ability to solve ambiguous technical problems and drive alignment among diverse stakeholders.
Recognized technical expertise and ability to influence technical direction and decision making without direct authority.
Experience balancing customer value, business objectives, technology roadmaps, and engineering excellence.
Ability to develop architectural concepts, system-level analyses, and solution alternatives for robust, scalable, and maintainable multidisciplinary systems.
Ability to define, analyze, and align requirements, interfaces, and boundary conditions across subsystems and engineering domains.
Ability to identify architectural and integration risks, technical debt, and technical challenges, and drive structured problem solving and mitigation strategies.
Ability to translate complex technical challenges into clear priorities and actionable work plans.
Willingness to seek feedback, learn continuously, and adapt leadership and communication approaches.
Ability to integrate diverse technical perspectives and encourage constructive technical debate.

Nice To Haves

Master of Science or PhD in a relevant technical field.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain system domain architectural views, solution concepts, and technical roadmaps.
Translate product, customer, and business needs into architectural analyses, system concepts, and technical recommendations.
Support System Domain Architects in defining and maintaining system architecture baselines.
Drive technical decomposition and allocation of requirements across system and subsystem boundaries.
Ensure architectural consistency across subsystems, modules, and engineering disciplines.
Review technical solutions and architectural implementations for compliance with architectural intent.
Align architectural requirements with System Engineering, MDU Architects, technical leads, and delivery teams.
Facilitate interface definition, integration strategy, and system-level alignment across multiple domains.
Support qualification readiness and technical integration planning.
Drive architecture-related technical reviews, assessments, and decision preparation.
Support architecture governance activities and design review processes.
Identify required architecture studies, simulations, technical investigations, and trade-off evaluations.
Drive root-cause analysis and resolution of complex technical challenges.
Identify, assess, and mitigate architectural risks, system integration risks, and technical debt.
Escalate significant technical risks, architectural conflicts, and unresolved trade-offs to the System Domain Architect.
Contribute to architectural methods, standards, design rules, and engineering best practices.
Coach engineers and technical leads on systems thinking, architecture methods, and technical decision making.
Contribute to Architect Development Programs, Technical Competences, and Guild communities.
Foster technical excellence, collaboration, and knowledge sharing across teams and sectors.
Support development of future architects and senior technical leaders.
Lead technical studies, simulations, and trade-off analyses to support architecture decisions, balancing performance, risk, cost, schedule, maintainability, and roadmap considerations.
Support technology roadmaps, architecture governance processes, design rules, architectural standards, and continuous improvement.
Translate complex technical challenges into priorities, actionable work plans, and measurable outcomes.
Integrate diverse technical perspectives and encourage healthy technical debate.
Develop technical talent through coaching, mentoring, and knowledge sharing, fostering collaboration across organizational boundaries.
Connect architecture objectives, technology strategy, and business goals through communication, technical leadership, and stakeholder alignment.