Senior Staff Systems Engineer - Data

Stryker Group; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 118,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Group is seeking a Senior Staff Systems Engineer to own data architecture for the robotic platform. You will define data management across R&D, service, clinical, and insight domains, enabling secure, interoperable data collection and logging across devices and platforms.

You will lead cross‑functional teams to translate clinical and regulatory needs into architecture decisions, define data artifacts, and drive verification, validation, and governance activities throughout development

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree with 6+ years of work experience.
• Experience in developing and optimizing complex systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional architecture decisions across systems and software.
• Experience with real-time and event-driven data flows.
• Ability to translate clinical, service, R&D, regulatory, and business use cases into system-level data needs and roadmaps.
• Experience defining data architectures, data products, information models, schemas, metadata and interfaces for complex system-of-systems products.
• Knowledge of data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and regulated-data practices (PII/PHI).

Responsibilities

• Lead research, design, development, and evaluation of robotic and medical device systems, including platform data architecture and data management capabilities.
• Translate clinical, customer, regulatory, and business needs into system requirements and roadmaps.
• Define and maintain system and data architecture artifacts, including interfaces and data flows.
• Drive decomposition, modeling, and cross-functional integration across engineering teams.
• Lead system verification, validation, and analytical activities including risk analyses.
• Establish governance for data structures, interfaces, security, and lifecycle management.
• Guide resolution of design challenges and support product development through regulatory-compliant release.
• Mentor engineers and partner with customers to advance capabilities.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

System architecture

Real-time data flows

Data governance

Education

Bachelor of Science in Software/Electrical/Mechanical/Systems/Biomedical Engineering

Job description

What You Will Do:

The Senior Staff Systems Engineer will be responsible for the data architecture and management framework for the robotic platform. This role will lead the definition and implementation of data architectures supporting clinical applications, modular utility tools and platform services across R&D, service, clinical, and insight intra-operative and post-operative use cases. The role will lead the development of data logging capabilities enabling consistent, traceable, secure, and interoperable collection and management of data across the machine, utility, and clinical domains.

• Lead the research, design, development, and evaluation of complex robotic and medical device systems, including platform data architecture and data management capabilities.
• Translate clinical, customer, regulatory, and business needs into system requirements, architecture decisions, and implementation roadmaps.
• Define and maintain system and data architecture artifacts, including requirements models, interface definitions, data flows, and test architectures.
• Drive requirements decomposition, system modeling, and cross-functional integration across software, electrical, mechanical, and systems engineering teams.
• Lead system verification, validation, and analytical activities, including trade studies, performance assessments, optimization studies, and risk analyses.
• Establish governance for data structures, interfaces, security, interoperability, and lifecycle management across platform and clinical data domains.
• Guide resolution of complex design challenges, facilitate architecture reviews, and support product development through release in compliance with medical device regulations and standards.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to technology strategy and innovation, and partner with customers and cross-functional stakeholders to advance product and platform capabilities.

What You Will Need:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, or Biomedical Engineering & 6+ years of work experience
• Experience in developing and optimizing complex systems
• Experience leading cross-functional architecture decisions across systems and software domains.
• Experience with real-time and event-driven data flows.
• Ability to translate clinical, service, R&D, regulatory, and business use cases into system-level data needs, architecture decisions, requirements, and implementation roadmaps.
• Demonstrated experience defining data architectures, data products, information models, schemas, metadata, interfaces, and lifecycle strategies for complex system-of-systems products.
• Working knowledge of data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and regulated-data practices, including PII/PHI classification, labeling, retention, access, and secure transfer.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge of Requirements Management Tools and System Modeling Tools
• Knowledge of ISO 13485 and ISO 14971.

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. and not require employment-based sponsorship now or in the future.

• $118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual