Sr Technical Fellow Systems Engineering & Architecture

Hollister Incorporated; Libertyville (IL); On-site; USD 230,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and life insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Hollister Incorporated, based in Libertyville, IL, seeks a Senior Technical Fellow in Systems Engineering & Architecture to lead as the founding enterprise technical leader. You will guide system-level thinking across product, technology, and ventures, maturing disciplines and ensuring coherent enterprise-wide engineering.

You will mentor teams, drive architecture strategy, and shape risk management, verification, and regulatory alignment across hardware, software, and disposables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Deep experience in Systems Engineering, requirements, architecture, risk management, verification, and integration.

Responsibilities

• Establish and mature Systems Engineering across concept development, requirements, architecture, interfaces, risk, verification, human use, manufacturing, and lifecycle.
• Frame system boundaries, expose assumptions, and structure requirements for high-leverage risks.
• Develop and challenge product and platform architectures to enable reuse and reduce complexity.
• Lead enterprise technical-review practice with rigorous reviews for high-risk decisions.
• Integrate engineering disciplines to optimize the system as a whole.
• Guide emerging technologies and assess implications with New Ventures.
• Mentor senior engineers and create reusable exemplars across programs.
• Capture architecture principles and lessons to improve organizational capability.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Architecture

Mentoring

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced degree

Job description

We Make Life More Rewarding and Dignified
Location: Libertyville
Department: Research & Development
Summary The Senior Technical Fellow Systems Engineering & Architecture will be the founding enterprise technical leader for Systems Engineering at Hollister and a trusted architectural advisor across our product, technology, and venture portfolios.
The Senior Technical Fellow Systems Engineering & Architecture will help ensure that the technologies we build, the products we launch, and the opportunities we explore evolve as a coherent technical enterprise rather than as isolated initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Establish and mature Systems Engineering. Define what excellent Systems Engineering means at Hollister across concept development, requirements, architecture, interfaces, risk, verification, human use, manufacturing, and product lifecycle.
• Demonstrate the discipline on priority work. Work hands-on with selected programs and technology efforts to frame system boundaries, expose hidden assumptions, structure requirements, integrate disciplines, and resolve the highest-leverage risks early.
• Shape enterprise and platform architecture. Develop and challenge product, platform, and reference architectures. Identify where shared interfaces, design patterns, technologies, test strategies, or data structures can create reuse and reduce long-term complexity.
• Own the enterprise technical-review practice. Establish and lead rigorous reviews for selected high-risk or high-consequence technical decisions. Frame the questions, assemble the right expertise, examine evidence and trade-offs, and issue clear recommendations. Accountable program and technology leaders retain decision and execution ownership.
• Integrate engineering disciplines. Bring materials, mechanics, software, sensing, fluidics, human factors, clinical, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and other perspectives together so the system is optimized as a whole rather than one discipline at a time.
• Lead selected system-level investigations. Help the company resolve complex, cross-disciplinary technical problems where normal program structures are not producing clarity. Create a fact-based path forward while strengthening the team\'s own problem-solving capability.
• Lead/Advise on emerging technologies and adjacent opportunities. In partnership with New Ventures, assess the systems, architectural, and scalability implications of selected technologies or opportunity concepts. Guide proofs of concept when they are the fastest way to answer a critical question; do not own a scouting or incubation portfolio
• Develop technical judgment across the enterprise. Mentor senior engineers and emerging systems practitioners, coach architecture thinking, and create exemplars that others can reuse. Your impact should increasingly compound through the people and practices you strengthen.
• Institutionalize learning. Capture architecture principles, patterns, trade-off logic, and lessons from difficult decisions so the organization becomes less dependent on individual memory and more capable with every program.

Essential Functions Of The Role

• Presenting findings to internal stakeholders.
• Supporting quality assurance and validation efforts.
• Ensuring adherence to regulatory standards (e.g., EU MDR, FDA).
• Participating in cross-functional project teams.
• Translating technical findings into business-relevant insights.
• Working with marketing, manufacturing, regulatory, and quality teams.
• Leading or contributing to innovation workshops and ideation sessions.
• Applying systems thinking and design excellence.
• Iterating based on test results and market feedback.
• Developing new materials, formulations, or technologies.
• Identifying unmet needs and proposing novel solutions.
• Influencing project direction through data-driven insights.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Regulatory, Marketing, Market Access).

Education & Work Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of related experience

Education & Work Preferences

• Bachelor's degree requiredin Engineering or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred
• A record of architecting and commercializingsophisticated multidisciplinary product platforms across the full lifecycle.
• Deep experiencein Systems Engineering, requirements, architecture, risk management, verification strategy, and integration across hardware, software, disposables, human use, and manufacturing.
• Credibility across functionswith experience influencing engineering, quality, regulatory, clinical, operations, suppliers, and senior leadership in global or matrixed organizations.
• Evidence of technical multiplicationthrough methods, design patterns, mentoring, communities of practice, or other mechanisms that raised the capability of teams beyond a single program.
• Sees the whole systemwhile remaining capable of going deep enough to challenge specialists and understand the real constraint.
• Distinguishes decisive unknownsfrom normal development noise and knows what evidence is sufficient for the next decision.
• Balances rigor and speedwithout confusing either documentation or caution with good engineering.
• Recognizes patterns across platformsand knows when to standardize, when to preserve variation, and when an architecture must be rethought.
• Connects technology to enterprise consequenceincluding user value, safety, manufacturability, scalability, lifecycle risk, cost, and future optionality.
• High standards, low ego. Challenges weak thinking directly without needing to dominate the room.
• Hands-on and pragmatic.Equally comfortable at a whiteboard, in a technical review, in a laboratory, or with an executive team.
• Intellectually independent.Prepared to surface an unpopular conclusion, and equally prepared to change position when the evidence changes.
• Motivated by impact, not hierarchy. Finds satisfaction in shaping important work, solving difficult problems, and making others more capable.
• A generous mentor. Builds technical confidence and judgment in others rather than becoming the person through whom every decision must pass.

Competencies

• Be Agile - Innovates and adapts quickly, approaching change with curiosity while persisting through obstacles.
• Be Customer Centric - Considers the needs, experiences and feedback of customers in all we do.
• Be People-Focused - Builds trust and collaborates with an inclusive and empathetic approach.
• Be Performance Driven - Operates with an ownership mindset, driving meaningful outcomes.
• Live The Schneiders’ Legacy, Our Noble Purpose - Passionately serves Our Mission and Vision, while demonstrating the Immutable Principles.

Our Total Rewards package in aggregate is above market and includes competitive pay, paid time off programs, peer-to-peer recognition, health and life insurance, wellness programs and incentives, and generous retirement savings.
The anticipated base pay range for this position is $230,000 - $260,000 yearly. The actual salary varies based on applicant's location, education, experience, skills, abilities, and other legitimate business factors.
This position is also eligible to participate in the Hollister Corporate Bonus Plan.
The Company’s health and welfare benefits include medical, prescription, dental, vision, spending/savings accounts, disability, company paid (parental and caregiver) leaves, statutory leaves/disability programs, accident, life, wellbeing, education assistance, adoption assistance, and voluntary benefit programs.
The Company’s 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan includes: auto-enrollment, ROTH, vesting and eligible participants “safe harbor” matching contributions.
The Company’s paid time off benefits include: 11 paid holidays, paid vacation based on length of service and exempt/non-exempt status, and sick days based on statutory requirements and/or exempt/non-exempt status.
The Company’s additional benefits include: education assistance and adoption assistance benefit programs.

About Hollister Incorporated

Hollister Incorporated is an independent, employee-owned company that develops, manufactures and markets healthcare products worldwide. The company spearheads the advancement of innovative products for ostomy care, continence care and critical care, and also creates educational support materials for patients and healthcare professionals. Headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, Hollister has manufacturing and distribution centers on three continents and sells in nearly 80 countries. Hollister is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Firm of John Dickinson Schneider, Inc., and is guided both by its Mission to make life more rewarding and dignified for people who use our products and services, as well as its Vision to grow and prosper as an independent, employee-owned company, and in the process, to become better human beings.

EOE Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Job Req ID

36547