Job Responsibilities:
• Assists scrum teams in defining and implementing solutions suitable for hosting current and upcoming features within release trains, ensuring compliance with nonfunctional requirements, and focusing on architectural and design decisions.
• Ensures the creation and realization of architectures, encompassing products, solutions, services, and software within a release train, and may engage in some code development activities.
• Possesses deep knowledge of software development and design, as well as familiarity with healthcare standards, customer environments, compliance requirements, and regulations (e.g., FDA).
• Collaborates with key stakeholders, including product management, R&D/software leaders, and cross-functional teams such as Software DevOps, to align on architecture and design decisions.
• Focuses on the product level or business offering with a planning horizon of 6-12 months, ensuring strategic alignment and forward-thinking architectural planning at the release level.
• Holds accountability for architecture and requirements at the product/platform level, driving the alignment of technical aspects with business goals and ensuring cohesive product development.
• Leads innovation efforts with internal partners, primarily at the peer level, facilitating cross-disciplinary and supplier collaborations to enhance technical solutions.
• Engages in technical negotiations, addressing integral trade-offs with multiple internal stakeholders and external parties, ensuring optimal solutions that balance various technical and business considerations.
• Understands and effectively applies the development logic of the Idea to Market (I2M) architecture and platform creation process, ensuring seamless interfacing with Application Development (AD) and Product Data Lifecycle Management (PDLM) suites.
• Performs decomposition and partitioning, re-using common and/or domain-specific platforms and technologies to streamline development efforts and ensure efficient utilization of resources.
Minimum required Education:
Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent.
Minimum required Experience:
Minimum 5 years of experience with Bachelor's OR Minimum 3 years of experience with Master's in areas such as Software Development, Software Design and Architecture, Testing and Quality Assurance or equivalent.
Minimum required Certification:
N/A
Preferred Education:
Master's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent.
Preferred Experience:
Minimum 15+ years of experience in Software Designing or equivalent.
Preferred Certification:
N/A
Preferred Skills:
• Technical Documentation
• Agile Methodology
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Business Acumen
• Strategic Planning
• Escalation Management
• Systems Integration
• Quality Specifications
• Software Architectures
• Stakeholder Management
• Resource Planning & Allocation
• Software Design
• Code Reviews
• Requirements Management
• Regulatory Requirements
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.
• Learn more about our business.
• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.
If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent
- Minimum 5 years experience with Bachelor's OR Minimum 3 years experience with Master's in software development, design, architecture, testing or equivalent
- Deep knowledge of software development and design
- Familiarity with healthcare standards, customer environments, compliance requirements, and regulations (e.g., FDA)
- Accountability for product/platform architecture and requirements, and ability to align technical solutions with business goals
- Experience collaborating with product management, R&D/software leaders, and cross-functional teams (including Software DevOps)
- Preferred: Master's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent
- Preferred: 15+ years of experience in software designing or equivalent
- Preferred Skills: Technical Documentation
- Preferred Skills: Agile Methodology
- Preferred Skills: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Preferred Skills: Business Acumen and Strategic Planning
- Preferred Skills: Escalation Management and Stakeholder Management
- Preferred Skills: Systems Integration and Requirements Management
- Preferred Skills: Quality Specifications, Software Architectures, Software Design, Code Reviews
- Preferred Skills: Regulatory Requirements (healthcare context)
Philips Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Philips and has not been reviewed or approved by Philips.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout, including a strong 401(k) match (often described at 7%) alongside pensions in some contexts.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible benefits are emphasized through choice in health insurance options and a broad “Total Rewards” approach that combines compensation, health and wellness, and work-life support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous paid time off and policies covering parental leave, caregiving responsibilities, volunteering, and family medical leave.
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What We Do
Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. As a leading health technology company, it is our purpose to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. Our goal is to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030. We also strive to be the best place to work for people who share our passion, by promoting personal development, inclusion and diversity while acting responsibly towards our planet and society.
