Product Architect

The role of Product Architect is to provide the technical product management of the systems and platforms within the stores business from an engineering perspective. Working alongside the commercial product management to advise on architectural issues and provide systems solutions to meet the product requirements.

Where the Commercial Product Manager is outward looking to support Sales team to meet Market Requirements, the Technical Product Manager is inward looking translating these requirements to support Engineering team to provide product solutions.

Responsible for the overall product architecture and engineering platform decisions. Setting framework and determining the overall plans for the Product Development and Introduction (PDI)

Key player in the Product Change Management (PCM). This role is requires wide breadth of engineering disciplines and to establish product knowledge to advise and steer change review board discussions. In this capacity, provide the cohesion and co-ordination between engineering and software disciplines to develop proposals and cost estimates for development.

Support Technical Sales in providing proposals for customer Special Feature Requests (SFR). This requires business awareness and adaptability to provide accurate and timely response.

Involvement with Systems engineering involving multidisciplinary teams to clearly communicate the requirements and develop the solutions Manage development lifecycle involvement to provide Automated Robotic sample storage systems to deliver cutting edge scientific applications and integrated platforms for biological sample and clinical intelligence.

The industries we serve have growing requirement for regulatory quality control (GMP, Medical Devices, ISO etc). The Product Architect / Technical Product Manager opportunity to develop the fully documented lifecycle to support adherence to these standards.

What You’ll Do

Key Responsibilities

• Provide cohesion and coordination of the hardware and software engineering teams to support Product Management and Development.
  
  
• Determine Product Design Strategy (Concepts, Platforms, Architecture) – based upon Product Market Strategy
  
  
• Provide Product Requirements Analysis based upon Market Requirement and Customer needs.
  
  
• Determine Product Development program and projects
  
  
• Develop Product Feature Specifications. Functional Specifications, Performance specifications and feature capability matrix to guide Engineering Design.
  
  
• Provide Sales Support, general and Special Feature Request response, proposals and cost estimates.
  
  
• Lead Engineering input to Product Change Management.
  
  
• Maintain Quality Procedures with specific interest in Product Development (PDI)
  
  
• Work within guidelines of GxP and Medical Device regulations
  
  Communications:
  
  
• Work in conjunction with Product Management to provide the Engineering Architecture, Platforms and Solutions
  
  
• Co-ordination/cohesion of engineering disciplines for Product Development: Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Test and Refrigeration.
  
  
• Co-operation with Operations, manufacturing, commissioning and service for Product Change Management
  
  
• Sales Support activities to determine user requirements and develop special features.
  
  
• Customer liaison during projects with new feature development
  
  What You Will Bring
  
  
• Degree level or equivalent experience in Controls Engineering or Mechanical/Electrical/Software engineer with system wide experience
  
  
• Engineering Leader with sales and business experience OR Product Management with engineering/technical skills.
  
  
• Strong experience in a similar role.
  
  
• Excellent communications and presentations skills
  
  
• Organisational and Co-ordination skills
  
  
• Project planning (Microsoft Project)
  
  
• MS Office including PPT and Visio
  
  
• Experienced with CAD