Software Architect

Dentsply Sirona is the world's largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona's products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona's global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company's shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

Bringing out the best in people

As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we're looking for the best to join us.

Working at Dentsply Sirona you are able to:

Develop faster - with our commitment to the best professional development.

Perform better - as part of a high-performance, empowering culture.

Shape an industry - with a market leader that continues to drive innovation.

Make a difference -by helping improve oral health worldwide.

Software Architect - Zurich, Switzerland

We are looking for an experienced and talented Software Architect to join our team. This individual will be responsible for the DS cloud-based offerings, drive systematic implementation of services and components with best practices and provide technical leadership to development teams working on complex problems.

This is a hybrid position which requires working in the office at least one day per week.

What will you do - Responsibilities

Main Responsibilities

• Designs and oversees the implementation of large-scale software architectures.

• Ensures alignment between business needs and technical solutions.

• Collaborates with engineering teams to establish architectural best practices.

• Conducts design reviews and provides technical leadership across teams.

• As the architect of assigned scrum teams, drive good technical decisions and produce high quality code.

• As part of the architecture board, define the architecture and technical vision for DS Core. Lead and participate in task force making important architecture decisions for overarching topics. Build POC as needed to solidify the decisions. Contribute to implementation to ensure good decisions become reality in products.

• Provide technical leadership to highly visible product features which require many teams to work together, identify weakness and recommend improvements.

• Dive into source code and set best practice.

Project Scope & Complexity

• Works on cross-team projects impacting multiple systems and business units.

Communication & Impact

• Influences engineering leadership, ensuring adoption of architectural principles.

Leadership & Growth

• Mentors engineers and ensures architectural governance within the company.

Who you are - Qualifications

Education:

• BS, MS or PhD in computer science or related engineering disciplines.

Years and Type of Experience:

• 6-8 years in system architecture, software design, and large-scale applications. 5+ years as a senior software developer.

• History of delivered commercially successful software products.

• Experience building successful commercial SaaS and/or PaaS.

• Experience in CI/CD, Containerization (Docker) and Cloud Computing (e.g., GCP, Kubernetes).

• Experience of developing in multiple languages, Golang and Dart, etc.

• Experience in building frontend applications with Flutter a big plus.

• Experience in designing software architectures.

• Experience in leading technical teams.

• Experience in MD (Medical Device) software a plus.

Key Skills, Knowledge & Capabilities:

• System architecture.

• Scalability and performance optimization.

• Microservices and distributed systems.

• Cloud computing (GCP, AWS, Azure, AliCloud)

• Enterprise integration patterns.

• Ability to solve complex technical problems.

• Distinct logical and analytical thinking and an affinity for technology.

• Self-organized and self-reliant, but willing to learn and share knowledge.

• Technical enthusiast with broad overview constantly eager to engage in new technologies and challenges.

• High degree of initiative, commitment, and goal orientation.

• Ability to work effectively with the global architecture team in various locations, including USA, Germany, Switzerland, China, Belgium.

• High quality standard and deep expertise, both in terms of innovation and implementation.

• Very good knowledge of English, both written and spoken. German advantageous.