Senior Software Technologist

Job Description

In this role, you are responsible for the design and implementation and test of software for use within medical systems.

Key Responsibility Area:

• Design and implementation of software (on component or module level)—understand and communicate consequences of your design on the architecture and influence design specification.

• Design software based on design specifications in accordance, to ensure that the software will be reliable, efficient, user-friendly, easy to maintain and meet the (medical) quality and coding standards.

• Implement class, unit integration and unit tests for the designed modules or components.

• Contribute to the quality and maintainability of our software stack which has to be maintained for a long time (10+ years).

• Perform work in-line with processes/quality system.

• Contributing to the unit interfaces (SW), in close consultation with relevant disciplines.

• Initiatives and active participation for continuous improvement and Agile / Safe / Scrum process.

Key Skills/Competencies

• Bachelor/Master of Engineering in the field of Computer Science/ Electronics and Communication or equivalent

• At least years' experience in software design and development

• Strong working experience of C++

• Experience object-oriented programming, GIT / ADS / SOLID principles and (unit) testing ​​

• Experience with software development methodologies such as agile (SAFE), scrum and the V-model

• Experience with all aspects of the software development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, test, and integration

• Ability to analyze the root cause of a problem and deliver evidence for the root cause and it side effects.

• Ability to find existing (legacy) code a positive challenge.

• Ability to think in risks for the proposed solution (including where to solve it)

• Design and implementation of software (on component or module level)—understand and communicate consequences of your design on the architecture and influence design specification.

• Design software based on design specifications in accordance, to ensure that the software will be reliable, efficient, user-friendly, easy to maintain and meet the (medical) quality and coding standards.

• Implement class, unit integration and unit tests for the designed modules or components.

• Affinity and interest in SW/HW integration

• Good communication in English (both written and verbal)

• Personality skills to collaborate with colleagues from different teams/levels and think across functional borders

• A lean/pragmatic attitude who can drive change and continuously seeks improvements and ways to reduce 'waste'

• Interest in development of software in a controlled regulated environment

• Experience in working in a healthcare product development environment is an advantage

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.

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