Software Competency Expert

In this role, you are responsible for 

• Maintaining an internal and external presence as an eminent thought leader in the field of Software Engineering, especially in embedded systems and software engineering. 

• Being hands-on with the software development teams, showing them how to solve problems, apply better techniques, practices and tools and improve the development culture. 

• Working in various ways, pairing, leading workshops, dojos, and hackathons and delivering formal training as required to help teams improve and spread practices and culture.   

• Staying up to date with industry state-of-the-art and constantly improving the Software Excellence programs. 

• Supporting software people and the businesses that surround them in continuous improvement of speed and quality. 

• Advising on and setting up (where required) software frameworks, CI/CD pipeline improvements, automation, data monitoring, support tooling, adoption of architecture patterns/practices. Building on the best-of-breed toolchains selected by Philips.  

• Gathering the right metrics/data to facilitate decisions and drive meaningful outcomes. 

• Getting to the root causes of problems and solving them at source, not treating the symptoms, by applying structured problem-solving techniques.  

• Train and mentor other Subject Matter Experts (SME) in Businesses to grow talent and help positive changes stick once you have left the team. 

You are a part of 

• The Philips Software Excellence competencies team with diverse technical abilities and backgrounds. This team uses a combination of top down, bottom up and middle-out approaches and exploits formal and informal influence channels to achieve the organization’s software excellence goals. We are all passionate about software. 

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience/Preferred Skills: 

• Excellent communication skills. Ability to communicate with impact, passion, and tact. Ability to influence without authority. 

• Experience in a technical software role dealing with complex enterprise software landscapes and the equivalent technical & interpersonal maturity. 

• Master’s degree or equivalent professional experience. 

• Experience in all aspects of software product development and teaching, coaching, mentoring, learning, and influencing in these areas. 

• Experience of multiple programming languages, OSs, infrastructures, technology stacks and product types. 

• Hands-on coding expertise needed in any 2-3 programming languages. 

• Awareness of the intersections of business, technical and human concerns. 

In addition to the above: 

This role has specialties in supporting teams developing embedded software and has the following requirements. 

• C, C++ experience. 

• Experience ranging from bare metal programming in a cost and resource constraint environment to large systems with embedded operating systems (such as Linux). 

• Knowledge of real time constraints (soft and hard). 

• Automated testing of embedded systems and supporting frameworks. 

• Leading the modernization of legacy embedded software development culture to best-of-breed tooling and practices, delivering dramatic improvements in quality and time to market. 

• Determining level of software excellence among embedded teams. 

Advantageous to have: 

• Knowledge of Embedded software development in medical devices adhering to IEC13485, IEC62304, IEC14971, FDA CFR 21. 

In return, we offer you: 

• The Opportunity to do what you love doing and help others do it well. 

• Work with a talented and passionate team of eminent software enthusiasts, eager to sharpen their skills. 

• Flexibility with a positive and supportive atmosphere in which to develop your own talents. 

• The ability to make a real impact on the development of life-saving medical technology. 

• Enjoy a dynamic, collaborative, and growth-oriented work environment. 

• Contribute to Philips' leadership position in the healthcare industry.