Principal Software Engineering

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Effective Tuesday, January 4, 2022, all U.S.-based employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID as a condition of employment at Philips. Employees with a sincerely held religious belief and/or disability impacting their ability to obtain the COVID vaccine can request a reasonable accommodation.

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common: An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers’ needs. It’s what inspires us to create meaningful solutions – the kind that make a real difference – when it matters most.

The world and our customers’ needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That’s why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better

Working within the R&D Development team you will jointly work together in shaping the software architecture for our next generation Cardiology and Radiology applications by researching and prototyping innovative technologies to advance our technology roadmap. You will also be expected to provide input into the R&D Leadership team on architectural roadmaps, technology strategy and technical recommendations and evaluations. As a Principal Software Architect, you are responsible for:

• Playing a role in designing and working closely with the architecture for our future applications using API, Microservices, Event Driven Architectures and Cloud patterns

• Working on the team that is leading improvement initiatives with regard to technological improvements and performs future-oriented studies with other specialists

• Collaborate with the software development team on implementation decisions and technology selections up to co-development of the applications

• Building on existing architectures and leveraging existing technologies and suppliers by working closely with the other architects

• Employ a systems engineering approach to design complete and complex frameworks and systems, at both conceptual and logical level

• Document platform designs. Collaborate with users and other technologists to gather feedback on those designs, and incorporate feedback as appropriate

• Rapidly produce prototype designs that can be market tested and grow into product

• Translate and document complex architectural issues to non-technical staff within the business

• Design Systems Architecture for Cloud Based applications and Web sites

• Advise management on strategic and organization directions from a software architecture impact

• Guide/mentor junior team members in the implementation of the solutions

• Lead and participate in Design Reviews

You are part of

You will be working in EDI team (part of Healthcare IT Business group), reporting to one of the R&D Group Leaders.

Your team will work according to the Agile principles of Scrum and Lean Engineering principles. You will work on highly innovative, first-of-a-kind propositions that are new within Philips, so an entrepreneurial mindset is an advantage. Together with your team, you will strive for continuous improvement of deliverables, your way of working, and yourself. Colleagues will challenge and coach you and you should willingly return the favor.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need a customer-first attitude and the following

A seasoned fellow Software Architect with experience working in various software companies and/or innovative technology environments, with firsthand exposure to successful digital transformations to the Cloud and SaaS. Further, we are looking for the following characteristics:

• At least 15 years of experience building web-based software systems, utilizing N-tier architectures, dynamic content, highly-scalable approaches, and complex security models/implementations. .NET related software stack is desired.

• Experience with software design concepts, practices, modern development methodologies such as Agile, Lean, TDD/BDD, Clean Code, CI/CD and common architectural patterns

• Experience in designing highly distributed systems for both on-premises and cloud with attention to scalable middleware, persistent data stores and microservice design concepts

• Experience in OS virtualization and containerization isolation technologies and concepts as “infrastructure as code” in a DevOps setting

• Experience in defining and implementing Non-functional Requirements into the core of the applications, such as security, scalability, maintainability, and various levels of quality

• Extensive knowledge of Digital eco systems and cloud. Terminology like SAAS and PAAS is very familiar and comfortable to you

• Experience with JavaScript frameworks (JavaScript, JQuery, AngularJS) and Web development (HTML5, CSS3)

• Demonstrated experience working in a team environment on medical and/or personal use software

• A true “roll up the sleeves and get it done” working approach with demonstrated success as a problem solver. Comfort “working virtually” with teammates and customers around the world

In return, we offer you

We offer the opportunity to play a leading role in achieving Philips’ ambitions with digital connected products and to truly contribute to the way our innovations improve the health and well-being of our customers. You will work in close cooperation with colleagues from across the Healthcare Informatics Business Group as well as other local software departments across Philips, playing a key role in driving the transition process that will turn Philips into a Digital Systems company. We invite you to be part of a challenging, innovative environment with great opportunities for personal development. Our benefits are very competitive and designed according to your preferences:

• An attractive salary

• A variable bonus based on both Philips’ results and personal performance

• An extensive set of tools to drive your career, including a personal development budget, free training and coaching

• Attractive health insurance package

• The opportunity to buy Philips shares and products at a discount

• A healthy work-life balance

At Philips, we are driven by our mission to improve the lives of 2 billion people per year by 2025, and every day we move closer to achieving our goal by creating cutting-edge solutions that lead to confident diagnosis, improved care, and increased quality of life for patients. If you are interested in driving action to improve patients’ lives so they get home healthier and faster and stay there longer, then this position is poised to help you achieve that goal.

Our benefits can be found here: https://www.careers.philips.com/na/en/total-rewards-at-philips.

How we work at Philips

Our newly adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.

Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:

We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone’s in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.

We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when, and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn’t office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams, and our customers on a case-by-case basis.

We want to be at our best: The way we work, and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.

Visit our careers website to explore what it’s like working at Philips, read stories from our employee blog, find information about our recruitment process and answers to some frequently asked questions.

If you are a Colorado resident and this role is a field-based or remote role, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request. You may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.

As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

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