Associate Principal Software Engineer

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Job Description

As an Associate Principal Software Engineer, the chosen candidate will serve as the Platform Technology Architect for Software & Connectivity across the UCC product portfolio. In this role assignment, the individual guides the organization’s multi-generation software and connectivity technology strategy across UCC product families, including Targeted Temperature Management, Endourology, and Urine Incontinence platforms.

The selected candidate will own the architectural direction and capability roadmap across embedded software, GUI/application software, operating system strategy, product security, wireless connectivity, device-cloud integration, diagnostics, service tools, and software test automation.

The individual in this position partners with engineering, quality, regulatory, operations, marketing, cybersecurity, human factors, and program teams to ensure software and connectivity improvements are prioritized, measured, reusable, and consistently deployed from product to product.

• Own the UCC software and connectivity capability roadmap across embedded software, GUI software, operating systems, product security, wireless connectivity, device-cloud data interfaces, diagnostics, service tools, and test automation.
• Define “crawl/walk/run” maturity steps for each software and connectivity domain and align them to product release trains across UCC platforms.
• Ensure the roadmap integrates inputs from VOC, complaints, service data, usability findings, software defect trends, cybersecurity risks, regulatory needs, manufacturing/service constraints, and latest technological advancements.
• Lead periodic software and connectivity platform strategy reviews and publish the roadmap with clear deliverables, decision points, investment needs, and success metrics.
• Establish software architecture principles, modularity strategy, interface expectations, cybersecurity guardrails, and reuse models so improvements can be leveraged across multiple products instead of recreated program‑by‑program.
• Software & Connectivity technical authority for software‑and‑connectivity‑impacting changes, including participation in CCB, architecture reviews, and pre‑PGR technical assessments.
• Create and maintain reference architectures, design decision records, software platform standards, preferred technologies, and reusable design patterns.
• Provide go/no‑go guidance on major software architecture choices, GUI framework decisions, operating system strategy, wireless connectivity approaches, product security architecture, and device‑cloud integration paths.
• Establish expectations for real‑time behavior, operating system selection, hardware abstraction, firmware update strategy, fault handling, cybersecurity controls, and software risk mitigations.
• Define GUI architecture principles that support consistent user workflows, human factors expectations, clinical/service modes, and configuration management across product families.
• Establish reusable UI patterns, component strategies, framework recommendations, and design guardrails to improve usability consistency and reduce program‑by‑program reinvention.
• Guide wireless and wired connectivity architecture, including Bluetooth/BLE, Wi‑Fi, Ethernet, gateway models, pairing/provisioning, offline/online behavior, telemetry models, and device‑cloud interface expectations.
• Partner with BD Incada and enterprise connectivity teams to align UCC products with scalable data, API, telemetry, identity, audit, and interoperability strategies where applicable.
• Define product security architecture expectations, including threat modeling, secure boot/update strategy, authentication, encryption, key management, SBOM expectations,…