Sr. Associate Engineer II - Junior Software Lead

Summary of Position:

At Alcon, we're passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us?

- Serves as a software lead for minor software lifecycle projects.

- Provides support for larger software lifecycle projects.

- Assures software development project timelines and expectations are met and adheres to procedures and processes and industry standards.

- Provides input for software documentation updates as required for development projects and changes.

- Works closely with the global software development teams and software support team to facilitate updates to software deliverables throughout the development life cycle.

Key Responsibilities:

Assure clear communication of and adherence to software project deliverables, expectations, and project timelines. Responsible for software deliverables and software release schedules. Work with the software leaders for various design centers, as defined by the projects, to ensure proper approval authority is provided for intended projects. Author deliverables, and support senior software project leaders for mid-to-large sized projects. Assure compliance with software release procedures for post-Market changes to on-market products. Collaborate closely with the software development teams, Technical Support, Field Service, Manufacturing, Clinical and other operational organizations to support necessary software changes initiated by reported anomalies, changes in use cases, material or hardware changes that impact software, cybersecurity, regulatory updates, and other. Interact with outside vendors and be able to identify and hold outside vendors accountable for their deliverables.

Key Requirements/Minimum Qualifications:

- BS of Computer Science or other related discipline with 3 years’ experience; or 5 years of relevant experience.

- FDA/ISO regulations for software development, prefer including IEC 62304.

- Experience with software development, Software Development Lifecycle Management (SDLC), and a solid understanding of the development process. Experience with Dev Ops tools such as Confluence, Jenkins, AWS, Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, Git, GitHub, TFS, and Microsoft Visual Studio.