This company, a leading MedTech, is looking for a  Polarion Solution Architect / SME for ALM Applications to focus on key future technologies used for the development of the company's products and to support the R&D organizations with tools and product-related Infrastructure and Application consulting. As Polarion SME, you will support, configure, and maintain Polarion (front and back end) as the central ALM platform utilized.

• Provide technical and process expertise and consultancy throughout the project lifecycle (including design, implementation, troubleshooting, configuration, enhancements, integration, testing, deployment, and basic project management support)
• Contribute to the definition of technical, industry, and process best practices and leverage, together with personal experience, to help improve productivity and efficiency, leveraging Polarion capabilities.
• Provisioning of 2nd Level support for ALM RE applications like Polarion and Caliber as well as for interfaces to other Enterprise Applications like Azure DevOps, TeamCenter, Quality Center, MagicDraw, etc.
• Conduct complex technical evaluation and suggest proposed physical architectures along with detailed designs.
• Driving technical issues to resolution: from qualifying the issue to reproducing it and conducting an in-depth technical investigation along with the vendor for Level 3 support, as applicable (being in touch with the customer and managing their expectations all along the way).
• Ensures compliance with Quality, Information Security, and Data Privacy regulations

• BS/MS in Information Technology, Business Informatics, Computer Science, or related fields
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes (Requirement Management, Test Management, DevOps, etc) and tools.
• Excellent Knowledge of Polarion architecture and its components (Subversion / Apache / PostgreSQL / JRE, etc), including the enterprise setup in a clustered High available, multi-instance environment.
• Polarion ALM subject matter expert should be able to design, build, and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements
• Polarion tool integration with other peripheral tools like Azure DevOps, TeamCenter, Quality Center, MBSE, etc.
• Experience in regulated Healthcare environment - Good knowledge of Quality, IT security, and ITIL requirements
• 5-8 years of hands experience with Polarion ALM application Implementation, consulting, and support.
• 5+ years of experience with Polarion in the following areas: Work item data model, work item and document workflows, documents & pages, plans & testing, queries, reports, projects, resource traceability, permissions, connectors to external systems/tools, subversion repository management.
• Intercultural Experience, Customer Orientation, and willingness to travel to customers at the company sites
• Self-starter who drives pro-actively activities that are in own area of responsibility

Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

 

• Experience with tiered-application architectures and client-server applications
• Experience with cloud/web/database components like Azure Services, Managed Databases, and cloud native technologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc)
• Experience working in a regulated industry (medical device, aerospace, financial, automotive, etc)
• Experience working based on a Lean / Agile / SaFe methodology is beneficial.

• Healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• 20 days of paid time off, plus nine company-designated holidays and two personal holidays
• Life insurance covered by the company
• Long-term and short-term disability plans covered by The company
• 401(k) plan with up to six percent company match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Career development plans
• Commuter benefit program
• Financial planning program