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Software Leader-DXR

Philips  •  Republic of India (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Software Leader-DXR

Software Leader-DXR

As a Software Leader for DXR, you are responsible for leading the end-to-end Software R&D organization, driving the strategy, development, and delivery of innovative DXR products and AI-enabled solutions that create differentiated customer value and business impact.

Champion the transformation toward Software Defined Systems and an AI-first engineering culture by advancing modern software engineering practices, Agile execution, platform-based development, and intelligent automation to accelerate innovation, quality, and delivery excellence.

Build and develop high-performing global teams, foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement, and partner with business, product, and cross-functional leaders to deliver scalable, secure, and customer-centric solutions aligned with strategic priorities and evolving market needs.

Your Role:

  • Software Engineering Leadership: Lead and inspire global software engineering teams across front-end, back-end, platform, and systems development, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and customer-centric solutions.

  • Software Delivery & Releases: Own end-to-end software delivery, enabling timely releases of clinical features, service updates, and third-party software integrations while maintaining excellence in quality, reliability, and compliance.

  • Software Platform Transformation: Drive the evolution toward Software Defined Systems, creating common platforms and reusable capabilities that accelerate innovation, differentiate products, and unlock new business opportunities.

  • AI Strategy & Adoption: Define and execute the AI vision, strategy, and technical foundation for R&D, accelerating AI integration across products, engineering processes, and organizational workflows while fostering an AI-first culture.

  • Technology & Platform Roadmap: Establish and maintain the software technology, architecture, and competency roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities and long-term portfolio growth across Fixed Radiography, Fluoroscopy, and Mobile DXR systems.

  • Engineering Excellence: Champion best-in-class software engineering practices, leveraging Agile, Lean, DevOps, automation, and continuous improvement to enhance quality, predictability, and development efficiency.

  • Product & Portfolio Execution: Lead software roadmaps for both new product introductions and sustaining engineering, balancing customer value, quality, speed, cost, and business objectives.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management, Systems Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Service, and other stakeholders across global locations to drive execution and achieve business outcomes.

  • People & Organizational Leadership: Build, develop, and retain diverse, high-performing teams, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

  • Operational & Financial Management: Oversee resource planning, budget management, workforce planning, and organizational performance to ensure effective execution of strategic priorities.

  • Quality, Security & Compliance: Ensure adherence to software development processes and all applicable legal, quality, cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

  • Innovation & Industry Leadership: Stay at the forefront of emerging technologies and industry trends, leveraging internal and external partnerships to strengthen engineering capabilities and drive operational excellence.

You are fit if:

  • Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. An MBA or equivalent business/leadership qualification is an advantage.
  • Leadership Experience: 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering and R&D, including significant experience leading large, globally distributed software organizations in a complex product environment.
  • Transformation Leadership: Demonstrated success in transforming software organizations to improve quality, speed, predictability, productivity, and development efficiency through modern engineering practices, automation, infrastructure modernization, and new ways of working.
  • AI & Engineering Excellence: Strong understanding of the evolving software engineering landscape, with demonstrated ability to leverage AI, automation, DevOps and data-driven engineering practices to transform the software development lifecycle and accelerate innovation.
  • Customer & Business Orientation: Strong customer-centric and business mindset, with the ability to translate customer needs, clinical workflows, technology trends, and business strategy into software priorities and differentiated product capabilities.
  • Platform & Architecture Mindset: Experience driving platform-based software development, modular architecture, reuse, scalability, and lifecycle management across multiple products and business roadmaps.
  • Execution & Operational Excellence: Strong operational and analytical mindset with the ability to establish meaningful software KPIs, use data to drive decisions, and ensure high-quality, predictable delivery across complex global programs.
  • Influence & Stakeholder Leadership: Strong executive presence and influencing skills, with demonstrated ability to challenge, align, and gain commitment from senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across R&D, Product, Quality & Regulatory, Marketing, Service, and other functions.
  • Complex Problem Solving: A solutions-oriented leader who can navigate ambiguity, simplify complex problems, evaluate alternatives and trade-offs, and make sound decisions balancing customer value, quality, speed, cost, risk, and long-term sustainability.
  • People & Culture Leadership: Proven ability to build high-performing global teams, develop leaders and technical talent, foster accountability and collaboration, and create a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and ownership.
  • Healthcare/Regulated Environment: Experience in healthcare, medical devices, or another safety-critical and regulated industry is strongly preferred, with an understanding of software quality, compliance, cybersecurity, and product lifecycle expectations.
  • Global Collaboration: Comfortable operating across cultures, geographies, and organizational boundaries, with willingness to travel internationally as required

How we work together:
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This role is an office-based role.

About Philips:
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here

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About Philips

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At Philips, our purpose is to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. We aim to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030, including 400 million in underserved communities.

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Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Amsterdam, NL
Year Founded
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