Instrument Software Architect Leader (M/F/D)

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

UK-Remote Location-Harwell

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• The Instrument Software Architect Leader is a senior leadership role responsible for operationalizing architecture strategy, governance, and standards across Agilent's instrument software portfolio.
• This role owns the platform architecture domain at the organizational level, establishing the processes, standards, and decision-making frameworks that guide how Agilent's instruments and software integrate to the shared software platform.
• The Instrument Software Architect Leader will own the Architecture Council, drive architecture governance across the portfolio, and lead a team of domain architects.
• Responsibilities include owning and operationalizing the architecture governance model for instrument software across the portfolio, owning the Architecture Council, defining and maintaining software architecture standards, reference patterns, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), establishing the processes and frameworks for architecture reviews, defining requirements and guardrails for instrument-facing architecture, partnering with Engineering and QE leadership, leading, developing, and coordinating a team of domain architects, and driving architecture modernization direction.
• The successful candidate will have 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in architecture leadership roles, demonstrated experience operationalizing architecture governance at scale, strong understanding of instrument software architecture, proven ability to lead and develop senior technical teams, experience owning decision-making frameworks, and strong executive communication.
• The preferred candidate will have experience in scientific instrumentation, laboratory software, or regulated industries, familiarity with platform architecture patterns, experience with containerized deployment models, exposure to AI/ML integration, and experience with shared services, API design, event-driven architectures, data streaming.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in architecture leadership roles
• Demonstrated experience operationalizing architecture governance at scale, standards programs, Architecture Councils, design review processes, or equivalent
• Strong understanding of instrument software architecture: real-time acquisition, hardware interfaces, connectivity, and non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, reliability)
• Proven ability to lead and develop senior technical teams (architects, staff/principal engineers)
• Experience owning decision-making frameworks and driving alignment across multiple product teams or business units
• Strong executive communication, able to frame architecture strategy and tradeoffs in business terms for senior stakeholders

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits package
• Opportunity to work on a unified, AI-native lab platform
• Option to work remotely
• Full-time weekly schedule

🏠 Location

• UK-Remote Location-Harwell

Skills & Technologies

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About Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Agilent Technologies, Inc. is a global life-sciences and diagnostics company that designs and manufactures instruments, software, services, and consumables for laboratories. Its products enable chemical analysis, genomic and proteomic research, pharmaceutical development, and clinical diagnostics. Operating in three segments—Life Sciences & Applied Markets, Diagnostics & Genomics, and Agilent CrossLab—the company serves academic, government, biotechnology, and industrial customers, supporting advances in food safety, environmental monitoring, and precision medicine worldwide.

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