Principal Architect

For over 50 years, SCIEX has been developing groundbreaking technologies and solutions in mass spectrometry and capillary electrophoresis. Our products enable our customers to quickly respond to environmental hazards, better understand biomarkers relevant to disease, improve patient care in the clinic, bring relevant drugs to market faster and keep food healthier and safer. At SCIEX, you’ll find a rewarding role that amplifies your impact on the world and helps you realize life’s potential.

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Want to help shape the future of life sciences and scientific advancements while leading a cutting-edge R&D team? Are you passionate about building and inspiring high-performing teams to drive innovation in a global setting?

As the Principal Architect, you will be responsible for leading and managing the architectural roadmap for products and operational initiatives at the SCIEX India Development Center (IDC) in Bangalore. In this hands-on role, you will collaborate closely with our Software Applications, Research, and Operations teams—as well as other cross-functional partners—to design and develop Mass Spectrometer software products and capabilities, while also creating operational tools to boost organizational productivity, reduce waste, and enhance overall efficiency in product development. You will spend approximately 30–40% of your time coding to bring your designs and architectures to life, ensuring that best practices and innovative solutions are implemented throughout the organization. You will partner with Sciex IDC leadership to build technical capability at Sciex IDC.

This position is part of the R&D Department and will be located in Bangalore, India . Our vision is to continuously drive innovation and efficiency in our development processes, leveraging the latest in software and hardware technologies to meet the needs of our global customers.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to: 

• Lead the design and development of robust software architectures for highly complex products, ensuring integrity, stability, and scalability.
• Develop operational tools that increase organizational productivity, reduce waste, and enhance overall efficiency in product development.
• Provide architectural direction to a team of architects and designers.
• Create and maintain both current and future state architectural blueprints.
• Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies to teams and leadership.
• Advance engineering expertise across functions by proactively advising and sharing insights with subordinates, peers, and senior management.
• Be a mentor/coach for upcoming architects in the team and strengthen architectural muscle at Sciex IDC
• Develop, communicate, and deploy enterprise architecture governance, integrating seamlessly with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes.

The essential requirements of the job include:  

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, with 16+ years of experience in designing and developing complex software products.
• 10+ years of experience with leading design and implementation of n-tier systems, reusable libraries and development frameworks in C#/.NET.
• 10+ years hands on experience in software design using proven principles, design patterns, modeling, architectural patterns, and domain analysis in C#/.NET.
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience in database technologies such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
• Experience identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and memory leaks using profiling tools (e.g., dotTrace, NProfiler).
• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• The work hours are flexible and to cater to the needs of global customers and stakeholders, you may need to attend calls and virtual meetings as per different time zones

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in: 

• Experience developing web applications using ASP.NET, MVC, Blazor, Razor components, etc.
• A background in leveraging AI to improve operational performance.
• Experience working with distributed teams in a global setting. 

SCIEX, a Danaher company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at danaherbenefitsinfo.com.  

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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