Senior R&D Lead – Cardiology Informatics

Senior R&D Lead – Cardiology Informatics

Lead innovation, cross-functional R&D execution, and technology strategy to drive the future of cardiovascular product development.

Your role:

• As a Cardiovascular Innovation and Engineering Leader, you will guide the development, implementation, and long-term roadmap of new R&D products, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with customer needs. You will manage cross-functional teams, monitor development progress, assess emerging technologies, and cultivate an innovative, high-performing environment. Your efforts will directly shape Philips’ future cardiovascular solutions and contribute to cross-organizational innovation.
• You will work closely with a wide range of teams — including engineering, product management, industrial, marketing, and scientific partners — to ensure state‑of‑the‑art capabilities, effective resource allocation, and impactful technology strategy execution. This role also offers opportunities for leadership growth, talent development, and exposure to cutting-edge healthcare technologies.

You're the right fit if you:

• Have 8+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree or 6+ years with a Master’s degree in Manufacturing, Production, Engineering, System Design, R&D, Management, or related fields.
• Are a strong strategic thinker with experience defining long‑term technology and product roadmaps.
• Are an experienced R&D and innovation leader, skilled in driving cross‑functional execution, AI and data‑driven decisions.
• Are experienced with front-end frameworks like React, Angular (or any java script framework). FHIR and structured data, clinical data model knowledge as well as IHE.
• Are experienced in automation of R&D processes, LLM knowledge, Agentic Framework familiarity.
• Are experienced in Scaled Agile Framework, with strong results in engineering practices such as code craftsmanship, DevOps, regular release cadence, and TDD/BDD.
• Have experience with porting over on-prem solutions to the Cloud, in a phased approach: lift-n-shift, gradual modularization, in depth knowledge on running containers and running K8S workloads across multiple regions / geographies.
• Hold in-depth knowledge on choosing cost-optimized solution/combination of cloud services.
• Have experience running CloudOps R&D teams conducting continuous optimization, porting CI/CD pipelines into the cloud, and continuous security assessments.
• Have familiarity with on-prem infrastructure: virtualization layers, limitations, constraints, designing managed-services, harmonization of deployment model across on-prem and cloud.
• Have experience developing costing models comparing on‑premises and cloud architectures.
• Have experience with designing software medical devices for cloud.
• Are experienced in project management and resource planning, with experience preparing teams for new technology adoption.
• Are an effective communicator who collaborates seamlessly with engineering, scientific, and business stakeholders.
• Are able to cultivate an innovative, high‑performing team culture through coaching and talent development.
• Are experienced in leading development groups and integrating processes across industrial, marketing, and purchasing domains.
• Are skilled at building internal and external networks and contributing to product development strategy and governance.

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.

About Philips

We are a health technology company.