Senior Director of Global Software Engineering

Job Title
Senior Director of Global Software Engineering

Job Description

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 may request a reasonable accommodation. *Montana employees are currently excluded from this requirement at this time.

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.

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

Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips' purpose has never been more relevant. So, whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you'll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.

The Senior Director of Global Software Engineering formulates a long-term vision for the Software Engineering Group within the Sleep and Respiratory Care business and manages the capabilities of the department to ensure that business objectives can be met as it pertains to Software engineering, technology and product development.

The Senior Director of Global Software Engineering is a people leader with direct responsibility for the development and growth of their teams, is a champion of the Philips Culture and is expected to drive change across the organization. This role drives continuous improvement of software engineering processes in the team and strives for efficiency and the highest standards of quality in everything the team does. This role has responsibility for a global team of Software engineers and reports directly to the Head of R&D of the Sleep and Respiratory Care business.

As a member of the R&D Leadership Team, determines in consultation with the Leadership Team, the Global Software team's objectives, policies, processes and budgets on short and long term, makes sure that the organization can meet the objectives and ensures that the roles and responsibilities are put in place.

You are responsible for

• Defines the software development strategy and vision, often influencing engineering across all R&D disciplines.
• Implements the software related cross-Business Unit strategy.
• Manages and integrates clearly diverse software development functions through Software Leaders.
• Is responsible for End-to-End design, development, delivery and maintenance of software development.
• Manages different functional/competency teams, units and respective budgets within R&D software development focused on shaping and delivering new or upgrading existing software.
• Selects talent, supervises, coaches and evaluates performance of software development personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the software development function.
• Acts as the enabler for the teams, has the responsibility for adoption, success and ongoing improvement of agile development and software development practices.
• Acts as key liaison with other functions and organizations outside R&D to drive business results.
• Develops people, processes and ways of working to achieve operational / functional excellence to deliver consistently and in the most efficient way
• Manages and monitors budgets of resources, tools and training. Conducts resources portfolio management
• Ensures compliance with product lifecycle and software development procedures and processes as well as all applicable quality and regulatory requirements
• Content-wise inspires and contributes to cross-organizational strategy and project teams working on innovation themes and breakthroughs
• Ensures appropriate personnel management practices regarding recruitment and selection, adequate resource allocation / resource portfolio management, remuneration, performance appraisals, people development and change management
• Is responsible for partner / third party management
• Is responsible for removing impediment for the progress of the teams, and acts as escalation point e.g. for quality issues and SLAs
• Establishes operational excellence / functional excellence via multiple sources of initiatives
• Supports due diligence and post-merger integration in acquisitions
• Might align with client and other stakeholders to organize work in the area of responsibility

You are part of

This role has responsibility for a global team concentrated in software engineering and reports directly to the Head of R&D of the Sleep and Respiratory Care business.

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

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant (Leadership + Technical) experience
• Five (5) or more years' experience in software development within a highly regulated industry.
• Experience with measurement and improvement of software quality.
• Experience in managing cross functional teams of development resources.
• Hands-on software development and architecture experience.
• Demonstrated project planning, estimation and release management ability.
• Proven ability to plan and manage large-scale, long-duration software development projects.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact across the organization.
• Solid leadership skills with the ability to influence others.
• Strong customer service skills with the ability to communicate effectively with non-technical personnel.
• Ability to express ideas effectively in both verbal and written formats.

In return, we offer you

At Philips, we are driven by our mission to improve the lives of 2.5 billion people per year by 2030, 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.

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa.

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.

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