Staff Systems Architect: HealthTech Architecture & Risk

Sava; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SAVA is seeking a Staff Systems Architect to drive system-level technical development across multidisciplinary programmes. You’ll own architecture and risk while supporting requirements and test, unifying software, hardware, chemistry, and manufacturing in pursuit of elegant, scalable, and robust designs.

You’ll thrive moving across domains, with broad technical range, curiosity, and humility. Regulatory collaboration is a key aspect of this senior role at SAVA.

Qualifications

• Broad technical understanding across engineering and science disciplines.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar domains quickly and ask precise questions.
• Strong system design judgment and transferable architectural skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead system-level technical development across cross-functional features.
• Simplify interfaces, reduce coupling, and improve system reasoning.
• Identify weaknesses and risks using structured risk analyses (e.g., FMEA).
• Support testing activities and use results to refine designs.
• Define and refine requirements, diagrams, interfaces, and specs.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, chemistry, manufacturing, QA and regulatory teams.

Skills

Systems thinking

Architectural judgment

Cross-functional leadership

Risk analysis (FMEA)

Model-based engineering

Job description

SAVA is seeking a Staff Systems Architect to drive system-level technical development across multidisciplinary programmes. You’ll own architecture and risk while supporting requirements and test, unifying software, hardware, chemistry, and manufacturing in pursuit of elegant, scalable, and robust designs.

You’ll thrive moving across domains, with broad technical range, curiosity, and humility. Regulatory collaboration is a key aspect of this senior role at SAVA.