Software System Architect
What is RheaVita?
RheaVita is a young, vibrant, innovative and ambitious company commercializing continuous freeze-drying technology for biopharmaceutical products. In addition, RheaVita offers pharmaceutical product feasibility studies and provides customers with pharmaceutical product and process development support using its continuous freeze-drying equipment.
Today, almost 50% of FDA and EMA approved biopharmaceutical products are freeze-dried to enable stable product distribution and shelf life without the need for expensive cold chain. RheaVita has developed the world’s first end-to-end continuous freeze-drying solution to address biopharmaceutical product development, manufacturing and supply needs in order to efficiently reach patients. The patented RheaVita continuous freeze-drying technology is game-changing for the fast-growing biopharmaceutical sector. It allows pharmaceutical companies to achieve rapid product and process development, and highly flexible and efficient manufacturing cycles with 100% controlled product quality. The technology enables both centralized large volume and decentralized low-volume-high-value product manufacturing and so is also ideally suited for innovative biological therapies, such as gene therapy, RNA based therapies, antibodies, vaccines, and to produce precision medicines and drug products for rare diseases.
Our offer, besides a competitive salary and benefits
RheaVita is a rapidly evolving company that inherently has a dynamic and exciting environment with ample opportunities for personal growth in different areas. RheaVita strives to widely commercialize its game-changing pharmaceutical manufacturing technology for the fast-growing biopharmaceutical sector. RheaVita is uniquely placed to disrupt the freeze-drying market. You will have to opportunity to grow your network internationally and to further develop and evolve your pharmaceutical equipment engineering & development talents and skills. RheaVita will in Q3 2021 enter well-connected and brand new facilities and office space in Belgium’s most beautiful city: Ghent.
Job description & main responsibilities
You will:
- Be the liaison between RheaVita and our manufacturing partner software team: provide directions and review the engineering process and results.
- Specify the interfaces between RheaVita equipment and the MES-environments of our customers.
- Assure that GMP requirements are met, such as conformation to 21CFR11.
- Digital Twins are created for our systems. The primary goal is to support software testing. The software architect shall provide guidance. In later stages these digital twins should be made available for customer support, training and commercial purposes.
- The controlled and continuous system of RheaVita will potentially produce much product data and machine data for different purposes. The software architect plays a role in achieving sufficient data reduction to render relevant information on product (qualification, GMP, release) and machine (preventive maintenance).
The person RheaVita is looking for:
- Has a background in Software Engineering.
- Has more than 5 years experience within the field of advanced production equipment.
- Has experience in PLC-controlled systems.
- Has experience in HMI-systems that match 21SFR11.
- Has demonstrated managerial skills to lead software teams.
- Is fluent in English, both written and orally – knowledge of another language is a plus.
- Is a proficient user of Word, Powerpoint, Visio, Excel.
- Likes to be challenged and challenge others on technical and organizational matter.
- Is prepared to travel when necessary: manufacturing location in the Netherlands, subcontractors in Germany, testing location near Ghent, customers in Europe and US.
Desired competences:
- Entrepreneurship – seeing the right opportunities and taking advantage of those opportunities.
- Leadership – the ability to take the lead in performing expected tasks.
- (Self) organizational talent – Plans don’t stay on the drawing board and are actually implemented.
- Vision – Always sees the end goal and does not deviate from the plan.
- Anticipating – Taking different possible situations into account when implementing plans, making emergency plans and contingency options.
- Strategic thinking – does not see things as they are, rather as something to further improve.
- Ambition – has a desire to grow with the growth of RheaVita.
Application and selection procedure
1. Please send your cv and motivation letter to j.corver@rheavita.com or info@rheavita.com. Make sure you motivate in your motivation letter why you are interested in this job at this specific company.
Extra information
- full-time
If you have any further questions, please e-mail to j.corver@rheavita.com or info@rheavita.com