System Architect

System Architect (Embedded Products/Staff Engineer)

Location:High Wycombe offices with hybrid working available

Term:Full-time, Permanent

Salary:Negotiable plus benefits

Our Client is an award winning global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products across various brands; making regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For.

Music technology is an enriching space to work in, our Client enjoys a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation throughout its business.

Seeking an Embedded Products System Architect (Staff Engineer), for a new role to support a growing community of engineers working on connected products with a tech stack from embedded software through to mobile applications.

The full extent of this role is broad and influential, with our Client open to applications from Candidates with a range of experience levels, also for whom this role may be a career progression,whom wants to join an innovative team with a passion for creating audio products in applications including live music performance, studio recording and education.

If you have a professional background in embedded software development or embedded system architecture and have experience helping multidiscipline teams collaborate on systems design with only some but not all the skills and experience required, please apply as you may be a great fit for the team.

The Role:

Working closely with and supporting Engineering teams, with architectural design considerations across a broad range of products. The focus of the role will be on hardware products, an awareness of desktop and web technologies would be beneficial.

While of course this is a technical role, our Client believes that successful system architecture is about people helping engineers and teams to communicate, collaborate, and successfully work together to build, test, and maintain integrated and scalable designs.

The role will help to ensure that the Business and Product Strategy is informing the technical research and discovery that are able to quickly iterate, as our Client test emergent product designs.

With a focus on connected architecture, you will engage frequently with Embedded Software, Automated Test (Design and Manufacturing), Desktop, Mobile, Web and Product Design Teams, to build a community where Tech Leads and Engineers from all teams are contributing to architectural design choices that support our Clients strategy.

Your strategic insight, and awareness of design integrations and interfaces, will help identify the necessary enablers for the teams those things the system architecture needs to feature, and that teams need to function effectively.

Using quarterly team planning, engineering catchups, and team product demos, you will keep the teams connected and up to date as the product system design evolves and help ensure that any system architectural issues the teams encounter during the implementation are addressed. At team level, you will participate in their solution definition and implementation, and update the architecture with feedback as the teams design, build and test their work.

Non-functional requirements, especially where they exist between or across multiple teams, are also vital to achieve a secure, well performing, sustainable and scalable architectural design. You will be responsible for taking care of these requirements and implementing solutions, getting input from the team tech leads and ensuring they are accounted for as part of the overall system design and delivery.

As part of this role, you will report to the Head of Embedded Software and work closely with other Engineering Managers and Tech Leads across the department.

Key activities include:

• Leading a community of practice that ensures product system architectures are well considered; secure, high performance, testable, sustainable, and scalable
• Ensuring product system architectures are aligned to product and engineering strategy.
• Being a team enabler ensuring each team is aware of the bigger architectural picture of which they are a part, and able to contribute effectively to that architectural design
• Embedding yourself in those teams at key points in the development cycle, to help in the hands-on implementation of key architectural components.

An ideal candidate is likely to be:

• Experienced in the development of consumer electronic products in a cost-sensitive environment
• Experienced with embedded systems including collaborating with electronics engineers on system design constraints and with software teams on systems integration.
• Experienced in software platform engineering techniques and design methodologies including hands-on development experience in C/C++
• Familiar with systems implementing a mixture of real-time and non-real-time processing
• An advocate for automated testing from unit testing to hardware in the loop, and familiar with principles of Continuous Integration.
• A people person, with excellent communication skills and with a proven track record of helping people and teams work well together.
• Flexible, and able to effectively prioritise and schedule across multiple projects.
• An advocate for good documentation and the importance of knowledge sharing.
• Committed to personal development and aware of the latest industry trends
• Methodical and rigorous, with a logical approach to problem solving.

Benefits:

Flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. Company training sessions and encourage personal development.