Systems Engineering Solutions Architect

Agilent Technologies • Washington, DC

4d • Remote

About The Position

Agilent is looking for a highly talented, experienced Systems Engineering Solutions Architect to leverage their product development knowledge at the enterprise level to serve as the point expert across Agilent. This role is responsible for driving functional engineering excellence via process and tool standardization, as well as execution oversight. This leader will actively establish a center of excellence and community of practice, serving as the primary systems engineering architecture authority for modularization, reuse and development acceleration. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of product development across the enterprise, enabling world-class engineering capabilities and innovation velocity. You will play a pivotal role in building a unified, modern, high-performance R&D ecosystem that accelerates product development and scales the company’s technology advantage. Beyond technical leadership, you will play a critical role in mentoring and developing engineers across the organization to function as an effective, collaborative unit. Acting as the primary systems engineering enterprise champion for the team, the Systems Engineering Solutions Architect removes barriers, accelerates decisions, and fosters a culture of empowerment across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in science or engineering.
• At least 10 years of growing responsibility in R&D technical engineering roles or a PhD in a relevant engineering discipline with 5 years of industry experience, with extensive, successful experience in product development
• Demonstrated track record of leadership and delivering results
• Experience leading globally distributed teams
• Experience building organizational capability through coaching, training, governance, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated success in cross-functional collaboration, influencing senior leaders, and driving alignment across diverse business groups.
• Strategic thinking and systems-level problem solving
• Operational excellence and continuous improvement mindset
• Strong communication, facilitation, and leadership presence
• Ability to drive change in a distributed, multi-business group environment
• Collaboration, relationship-building, and stakeholder influence
• Technical depth and credibility with engineering organizations

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or PhD preferred.

Responsibilities

• Accelerate the Product Lifecycle (PLC) across the organization by driving a single enterprise-wide best-practice of the systems engineering ecosystem with standardized frameworks and governance.
• Lead training, coaching, and change management to ensure adoption across all business groups.
• Use KPIs and analytics to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Define and maintain enterprise-level systems engineering standards, tools, test methods, and design frameworks.
• Lead the systems engineering Leadership Forum to drive alignment and best-practice sharing.
• Partner with product and technology leaders to strengthen technical rigor and innovative culture.
• Serve as a leadership role model across the organization, mentoring emerging leaders and promoting a high-performance culture that values accountability and collaboration.
• Manage and modernize the end-to-end digital development tool chain and ensure enterprise modular design and hardware reuse.
• Evaluate, deploy, and integrate common tools that enhance productivity and process efficiency.
• Provide training and best-practice guidance to ensure consistent, effective tool usage
• Establish a systems engineering design hub to enable scalable, high-quality engineering support.
• Drive engineering initiatives to optimize development costs, architectural design deployment, accelerate time-to-market and effective transfer into manufacturing.
• Optimize designs for supply chain stability and continued post-market production.

Benefits

• eligibility for bonus, stock and benefits

What This Job Offers

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