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Job TitleDepartment Manager Positioning Software
Job Description
Are you a talented technical software leader? Do you have the drive to lead a team of highly skilled technical professionals to the next level of quality, output and engagement? Do you get excited about world-class excellence in medical software development? Then we would like to get in contact with you.
Your role:

As a technical Department Manager, you are responsible for the quality and output of the team, talent management, way of working and continuous improvement. You lead and manage the teams within the allocated budget, on time and with the highest level of quality. The work is based on a product and technology roadmap, covering studies, new product introductions, product maintenance activities and advanced field support.
Key areas of responsibility:

Leads a software department of approximately 15-20 engineers located in Bangalore

Defines group composition including required competencies, resources and skills

Manages relationships with stakeholders, especially in the Bangalore and The Netherlands ecosystems, optimizing inflow and outflow of work for the team.

Ensures successful introduction and sustaining of high quality, maintainable, serviceable, and reliable software products

Drives the technology roadmaps for the team

Defines and executes improvement activities


Your team

In this software leadership role, you will lead the positioning software team in Bangalore, in total around 15 highly educated (Bachelor, Master, PhD) software designers and testers. This team is responsible for parts of the mechatronics software of our minimal invasive systems. To lead this team you need to understand (Agile) software development and high performance real time C++. We look for strong technical leaders that understand and have used model-based development techniques. Your team will be working in a SAFe (Agile) set-up and will be part of the Positioning Agile Release Train.

You are a part of the leadership team of the Mechatronics Development Cluster (MDC) of the Business IGT Systems within Philips, spread out over The Netherlands, India, and China. This business is responsible for marketing, development, and manufacturing of X-ray systems in the area of cardiac and vascular medical diagnosis and intervention (e.g. balloon angioplasty and stent procedures). Customers are interventional specialists, in the cardiology and radiology domain operating in hospitals across the globe.

You're the right fit if:


Master degree or better in software engineering

Several years of experience in leading a team, in an Agile SW environment

Several years of experience in a medical regulated environment, testing, and quality assurance is a plus

Several years of experience in a mechatronics environment is as plus

Knowledge and experience of international standards (e.g. FDA regulatory, IEC 62304, IEC60601, ISO13485, ISO14971) is a plus

Abstract, analytical and creative thinker with helicopter view. You drive (out-of-the-box) solutions to complex problems

Is communicative, a good listener, and is able to give good presentations to various levels in the organization

Experience with working cross-country (preferably working together with Netherlands)

Has an improvement attitude, is a leader by leading through example

Organizational talent and ready to take responsibility

Communicative in all layers of the organization, orally and in writing; fluent in English, written and verbal

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. Learn more about our business. Discover our rich and exciting history. Learn more about our purpose.If youre 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 commitment to diversity and inclusion here.