Senior Software Architect

Job Title Senior Software Architect Job Description PURPOSE The Software Architect 70 is responsible for 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. The role 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. The role 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. The role 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. The role champions new technologies for optimization, demonstrating deep understanding of product usage scenarios, user needs and is able to create frictionless flows for customer usage, exerting influence on senior managers and mentoring junior team members. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES • 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. JOB REQUIREMENTS Education Master's Degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent. Work Experience Minimum 8 years of experience with Master's OR Minimum 6 years of experience with Doctor’s in areas such as Software Development, Software Design and Architecture. Preferred Skills (Technical/Functional Skills) Excellent technical leadership, be able to influence key stake holder for critical technical decision Good command of software quality especially on software architecture Experienced on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Good understanding on Agile Methodology Experience in coding in C# ,C++,or Java Excellent technical leadership Familiar with WPF/WCF Familiar with OO design rules and design patterns Familiar with the Windbg ,dot Memory and so on tools and using the tools to investigate the difficult issues Ability to work independently and complete modules development with minimal supervision. Outstanding analytical and problem-solving capabilities Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills while communicating in English 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. About Philips Are you ready to do the work of your life to help the lives of others? Learn more about our business , discover our rich and exciting history and 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 .