Senior IT Architect

Job Title

Senior IT Architect

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior IT Architect

In this role, you have the opportunity to…

• Shape how Philips applies AI across the organisation, translating business opportunities into secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• Connect Enterprise Architecture, Platform Architecture, Data and AI teams, and DevSecOps to bring AI enabled capabilities from idea to production.
• Define the architecture direction for AI services, models, and integrations, supporting both shared platform capabilities and business specific solutions.
• Enable teams to adopt AI responsibly and effectively, including through AI assisted development and redesigned ways of working.

You are responsible for

• Creating solution architectures aligned with the Enterprise Architecture roadmap, principles, and guidance, with a focus on AI enabled capabilities.
• Identifying and assessing opportunities to apply AI to business processes, products, and employee experiences, and shaping them into viable solution proposals.
• Translating business needs into architectures that combine AI services and models with enterprise applications, data, APIs, and operational processes.
• Evaluating AI services, platforms, and models for suitability across use cases, considering quality, security, privacy, regulatory requirements, cost, performance, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Designing architectures that use a range of AI approaches and models, such as generative AI and large language models, machine learning, and other emerging AI capabilities.
• Guiding the selection and use of commercial, open-source, and internally hosted models and services, including model access, orchestration, retrieval, and integration patterns where appropriate.
• Establishing architectural patterns and guidance for AI solution lifecycle management, including evaluation, testing, monitoring, versioning, governance, and ongoing improvement.
• Promoting responsible AI practices, including human oversight, transparency, data protection, security, and appropriate controls for model and service use.
• Exploring and guiding AI assisted development across the software lifecycle, including requirements analysis, architecture, coding, testing, documentation, and support.
• Helping teams redesign workflows and ways of working to make effective use of AI, with clear measures of business value, quality, and adoption.
• Validating technologies and architecture, and promoting adherence to agreed engineering, security, and governance processes.
• Advising stakeholders and aligning AI solution designs with business objectives, enterprise standards, platform strategies, and the wider IT landscape.
• Providing architectural guidance from early exploration and proof of concept through delivery and production operation.
• Identifying architectural conflicts, dependencies, and risks, and working with teams to resolve them.
• Partnering with DevSecOps, Data, AI, Security, Legal, and platform teams to ensure solutions are built and operated as designed.
• Participating in capability assessments and roadmap initiatives across AI, data, integration, and platform domains.
• Collaborating with Business Process Owners, Solution Architects, Platform Solution Managers, Project Managers, and delivery teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Providing architectural oversight and technical guidance to partners supporting incidents, changes, service requests, releases, and other operational activities.
• Bringing forward best practices and continuous improvement ideas, and coaching colleagues in AI architecture and responsible adoption.

You are a part of…

The IT Integration and AI Architecture community: a customer-focused, collaborative group that helps Philips deliver business-critical digital capabilities. The team works across business, data, AI, platform, and technology domains to connect enterprise capabilities and turn new technologies into valuable, trusted services. It operates globally, supports one another, and values diverse perspectives.

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

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working in an Agile software development lifecycle.
• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, AI, data, integration, or a related domain, including hands-on delivery experience.
• Strong knowledge of AI concepts, services, and architectures, with practical experience applying AI to real organizational or business use cases.
• Experience with multiple AI models and services, including generative AI and large language models, and the ability to assess their strengths, limitations, and fit for different use cases.
• Familiarity with commercial and open-source models, cloud AI services, and model hosting or deployment options.
• Experience designing AI enabled solutions that integrate models and AI services with enterprise data, applications, APIs, and business workflows.
• Understanding of techniques and architectural patterns such as retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector search, AI agents, and model orchestration, and when they are appropriate.
• Experience evaluating AI solutions for quality, safety, privacy, security, performance, cost, and reliability.
• Knowledge of responsible AI, data governance, and relevant security and compliance considerations, with the ability to apply them to solution design.
• Experience taking AI solutions from experimentation or proof of concept into production, including evaluation, monitoring, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement.
• Practical experience with AI assisted development tools and practices, and an understanding of how to adopt them responsibly across engineering teams.
• Strong solution architecture skills, including the ability to communicate options, trade-offs, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience with architecture modelling and communication tools such as UML, Visio, draw.io, or similar.
• Experience working with partner teams and coaching colleagues.
• Ability to connect technology decisions to measurable business outcomes and communicate effectively with leaders at all levels of the organization.

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 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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• Discover our rich and exciting history.
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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 commitment to diversity and inclusion here.