Capability Architect, Engineering Lifecycle Systems; m​/f​/d

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Hybrid locations:
Bad Homburg, Germany:
Waltham, MA, USA:
DEU St.Wendel - Plant - F6-8:
Knoxville, TN, USAtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todaytime left to apply:
End Date:
February 13, 2026 (14 days left to apply) job requisition :
R0236776

At Fresenius Medical Care, we are the global leader in kidney care, committed to improving the lives of patients with chronic kidney disease. Our mission is to deliver high-quality, innovative products, services, and care across the entire healthcare journey. Guided by our vision—“Creating a future worth living. For patients. Worldwide. Every day.”—we work with purpose and compassion, supported by a global team of over 125,000 employees.

Our values guide how we work:
* We Care for our patients, each other, and our communities
* We Connect across teams and borders to deliver excellence together
* We Commit to doing things the right way— growing with purpose and leading kidney care with integrity and innovation

As a key leader serving Agile product teams, the Capability Architect (m/f/d) will steer the creation of best-in-class customer experiences, business solutions and operational processes driving value for our customers, team members and stakeholders.

Your assignments:
* Primary responsibility to create, elaborate, refine, and prioritize Agile team backlogs as well as to author user, defect, and enable stories within the team backlogs
* Develop detailed feature specifications, work instructions and training to ensure they’re clearly understood by relevant teams
* Drive efficient increment and iteration planning through clearly communicating product needs
* Write acceptance criteria and acceptance tests aligned with product value and team Definition of Done (DoD)
* Collaborate with team leadership to determine overall objectives for functional increments of team and program value delivery and report product progress
* Collaborate with capability and solution architecture to ensure effective dependency management
* Engage with architects and delivery managers to properly sequence release schedules
* Co-Lead team iteration demonstrations to stakeholders and sponsors of the Agile team
* Participate in increment and iteration retrospectives to help drive continuous improvement
* Engage with other capability architects and process owners throughout the overall delivery program to identify common blockers, improve quality and reduce time to release

Your profile:

* Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or engineering field
* Several years of experience in leading software product development in healthcare or minimum 5 years leading technology delivery within a business department. Previous experience in Product Development, Technical Project Management or Software Engineering is valuable and transferable
* Strong management skills with the ability to lead cohesive and productive teams
* Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of management through diplomacy and tact
* Proven applications functional knowledge, including relevant best practices of a large-scale PLM systems
* Knowledge of CMII is an advantage
* Knowledge in our core systems (Windchill, Modeler, Thingworx)
* Knowledge in Azure Dev Ops and Agile principles
* Fluent in English and German
* Willingness to travel within Europe, Asia and USOur Offer for you:

There is a lot you can discover at Fresenius Medical Care, regardless in which field you are an expert and how much experience you have - all dedicated to your professional journey.
* Whether in front of or behind the scenes - you are helping to make ever better medicine available to more and more people around the world
* Individual opportunities for self-determined career planning and professional development
* A corporate culture in which there is enough room for innovative thinking - to find the best solution together, not the quickest one
* A large number of committed people with a wide range of skills, talents and experience
* The benefits of a successful global corporation with the collegial culture of a medium-sized company**#1 Top Workplace in the area.*
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