Solution Architect

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Job Description

Job title: IT Solution Architect

Job Grade: 60

You are Responsible for:

• Defining and governing solution and data platform architecture aligned with enterprise architecture principles, business strategy, and technology standards.
• Translating business, product, and data requirements into scalable end-to-end solution designs and target architectures.
• Designing data platforms and ecosystems including ingestion, integration, storage, processing, analytics, and consumption layers.
• Establish architecture patterns and standards for cloud-native, event-driven, API-first, and data-centric solutions.
• Define platform capabilities across data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses, streaming, and real-time processing environments.
• Ensure solution designs meet Non-Functional Requirements including scalability, reliability, availability, performance, observability, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business SMEs, Engineering teams, Platform Architects, and DevSecOps teams to ensure successful implementation.
• Drive technology selection, architecture assessments, and proof-of-concept activities for new platform capabilities.
• Define integration patterns across enterprise applications, cloud services, APIs, and external platforms.
• Establish security, governance, compliance, and data protection controls aligned with enterprise policies.
• Lead architecture reviews and resolve cross-team design conflicts, dependencies, and technical risks.
• Define reference architectures, reusable components, and implementation guardrails to accelerate delivery.
• Guide data management practices including data modeling, metadata, lineage, quality, and governance.
• Support CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and platform automation practices to enable reliable delivery.
• Own architecture roadmaps and transition plans from current-state to target-state platforms.
• Enable end-to-end observability and operational excellence across solution and data platforms.
• Support adoption of analytics, AI/ML, and self-service data capabilities where applicable.
• Contribute to architecture communities and promote continuous improvement and engineering best practices.

You are part of:

• Services IT organization
• Data Insights & Analytics team

Data Insights & Analytics team plays a critical role in enabling data-driven decision-making and accelerating digital transformation across the enterprise. The organization focuses on leveraging data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation technologies to improve operational efficiency, enhance customer experience, and drive business growth. By collaborating with cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams, the organization delivers scalable and secure digital solutions aligned with strategic business objectives.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in data engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data & AI platform architecture, and digital transformation initiatives, preferably within the healthcare domain.
• Strong expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines for enterprise data platforms, and for AI-enabled solutions.
• Strong experience in defining enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models, data domains, canonical models, and data standards.
• Proven ability to design data architectures that support analytics, reporting, AI/ML, operational data products, master data management, and enterprise-wide data reuse.
• Experience in establishing data governance, metadata management, lineage, data quality, access management, retention, and privacy-by-design principles across data platforms.
• Hands-on knowledge of modern data architecture patterns such as lakehouse, domain-oriented data products, and event-driven data integration.
• Hands-on experience in programming, scripting, database technologies, and data integration frameworks including ETL/ELT processes and big data technologies.
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, deployment strategies
• Proficiency in Microsoft Azure cloud platforms
• Strong understanding of security, governance, compliance, vulnerability management, and secure software development lifecycle practices.
• Strong strategic thinking, systems thinking, problem-solving, and innovation capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in both individual contributor and collaborative team environments.
• Strong project management, stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to engage effectively with leadership and cross-functional global teams.
• Proven experience working in cross-cultural and global environments with strong collaboration skills across architects, business stakeholders, platform teams, and engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to drive automation, operational excellence, platform optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience in software validation and quality assurance processes is preferred.

How we work at Philips

Our newly adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.​

Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.

Visit our careers website to explore what it’s like working at Philips, read stories from our employee blog, find information about our recruitment process and answers to some frequently asked questions.

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 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.