Principal Systems Architect

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

  Identifies improvement opportunities (e.g. products, subsystems, platforms, technology, standards, supply chain, manufacturing, and architecture) and translates business strategy into deployable solutions, reference and platform architecture. Initiates and supervises the implementation and usage of reference and platform architecture.

• System Architecture & Strategic Alignment

Translate Philips and business strategy into system architecture requirements and roadmap, balancing customer, business, and regulatory needs.

• Requirements Management & Trade-offs

Consolidate and manage functional and non-functional requirements throughout the lifecycle; resolve conflicts and ensure coverage, quality, and compliance.

• Architecture Design & Platform Implementation

Deliver documented reference architecture with defined rules, elements, and interfaces; supervise implementation and manage architecture evolution.

• Technical Leadership & Design Decisions

Own top-level MRI system design, assess technical feasibility, allocate design budgets and interface specifications; guide design reviews and development activities.

• Defect Analysis & Integration Support

Lead system-level defect analysis and remediation during integration, verification, and validation phases.

• Methods & Tools Application

Ensure architecture documentation meets regulatory standards; apply state-of-the-art modeling tools and I2M processes.

• Influencing & Team Collaboration

Drive architecture adoption through explanation, persuasion, and decision facilitation; coach and grow implementation teams.

• Innovation & Technical Negotiation

Lead cross-disciplinary innovation; negotiate technical trade-offs with internal stakeholders and external partners.

• Architecture Community & Capability Building

Participate or lead community activities; share best practices; train and mentor architects and candidates.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

The position requires the following personal capabilities and competence for acceptable performance:

• Master’s or PhD degree in Physics or Engineering with MR physics background or relevant field.

• Minimum 5 years of intensive experience in Systems engineering, rich experience at standard and risk management.

• Strong expertise in MR chain(RF chain/Gradient chain/Magnet chain) design and implementation, combined with a solid system-level thinking approach to ensure optimal integration and performance across complex MRI architectures.

• Behavioral competencies:

  • Demonstrating business acumen.

  • Driving of divergence, convergence and consolidation

  • Stakeholder management: ability to communicate vision and need and create buy-in

  • Analytical skills; Architectural thinking and creation; Switching from a helicopter to detailed view.

  • Influencing skills; Delegation skills; Coaching skills; Negotiation skills.

  • Managing uncertainty and complexity.

  • Openness for new challenges and application areas. 

  • Manage trade-offs that are critical for success

• Functional competencies:

  • Documenting/modeling of the architecture

  • Apply system engineering tools and approaches

  • Structured approaches like FMEA DfSS, Dfx and DfA

  • Use of calculation, simulation and modeling tooling

  • Guiding design of experiments including prototyping and measurements protocols