System Domain Architecture Lead Engineer

ASML • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

The SDA Lead Engineer provides technical leadership within the System Domain Architecture team, developing system-level architectural concepts, performing technical analyses, aligning work across domains, and enabling architecture realization across products and programs. The role works 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.

The engineer contributes to system architectures for one or more products and supports multiple MDUs through technical leadership, architecture execution, and cross-functional alignment. The role supports architectural decision making, technical trade-off analysis, interface management, and integration planning, while promoting consistency across disciplines and subsystems through technical studies, architecture reviews, risk assessments, and roadmap alignment. It also supports architecture governance and technical excellence throughout the product lifecycle, and helps develop engineers and future technical leaders.

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.
• Demonstrated 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 system-level architectural analyses and solution alternatives aligned with business objectives, customer needs, and system requirements.
• Ability to define, analyze, and align requirements, interfaces, and boundary conditions across subsystems and engineering domains.
• Ability to lead technical studies, simulations, and trade-off analyses that balance performance, risk, cost, schedule, maintainability, and roadmap considerations.
• Ability to identify architectural risks, integration challenges, and technical debt and drive structured problem solving and mitigation.
• Ability to support technology roadmaps, architecture governance, design rules, and architectural standards.
• Ability to translate technical challenges into priorities, work plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Willingness to seek feedback, learn continuously, and adapt leadership and communication approaches.
• Ability to integrate diverse technical perspectives and encourage constructive technical debate.
• Ability to coach, mentor, and share knowledge while fostering collaboration across organizational boundaries.
• Ability to connect architecture objectives, technology strategy, and business goals through communication and stakeholder alignment.

Nice To Haves

• Master of Science or Ph.D. 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.

Benefits

• Medical insurance for employees and their families.
• Dental insurance for employees and their families.
• Vision insurance for employees and their families.
• Basic life insurance.
• Participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan.
• Eight hours of vacation leave every month.
• Thirteen paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior