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.
Translate Philips and business strategy into system architecture requirements and roadmap, balancing customer, business, and regulatory needs.
Consolidate and manage functional and non-functional requirements throughout the lifecycle; resolve conflicts and ensure coverage, quality, and compliance.
Deliver documented reference architecture with defined rules, elements, and interfaces; supervise implementation and manage architecture evolution.
Own top-level MRI system design, assess technical feasibility, allocate design budgets and interface specifications; guide design reviews and development activities.
Lead system-level defect analysis and remediation during integration, verification, and validation phases.
Ensure architecture documentation meets regulatory standards; apply state-of-the-art modeling tools and I2M processes.
Drive architecture adoption through explanation, persuasion, and decision facilitation; coach and grow implementation teams.
Lead cross-disciplinary innovation; negotiate technical trade-offs with internal stakeholders and external partners.
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
