Solution Architect

About the role

JOB TITLE: Solution Architect

In this role, you have the opportunity to…

• Connect Enterprise Architecture, Platform Architecture, and DevSecOps to turn strategy into deliverable solutions.
• Enable IT as a Platform by promoting reusable, secure, and scalable integration capabilities.
• Shape the integration roadmap around API-led architecture, event-driven patterns, and modern integration practices.
• Help teams apply AI responsibly across solution design, development, testing, and operations.

You are responsible for

• Creating solution architectures aligned with the approved Enterprise Architecture roadmap, principles, and guidance.
• Analyzing business context, strategy, and change requirements to guide solution direction and architectural decisions.
• Defining API-led integration approaches, including API lifecycle, reuse, security, versioning, and governance.
• Evaluating integration patterns and technologies, including APIs, events, messaging, and SaaS connectivity, based on business and technical needs.
• Validating technologies and architecture, and promoting adherence to agreed processes, standards, and governance.
• Advising stakeholders and aligning designs with business needs, platform strategies, and the wider IT landscape.
• Providing architectural guidance from the early stages of programs and projects through delivery.
• Identifying conflicts and risks in solution direction or design, and working with teams to resolve them.
• Partnering with DevSecOps teams to help ensure solutions are built, secured, tested, and operated as designed.
• Exploring and guiding the responsible use of AI assisted development, including its application to design, code generation, documentation, testing, and support.
• Establishing appropriate guardrails for AI assisted engineering, with attention to security, privacy, quality, explainability, and human review.
• Participating in capability assessments and roadmap initiatives across platform domains.
• Collaborating with Business Process Owners, Solution Architects, Platform Solution Managers, Project Managers, and delivery teams to meet business objectives.
• Providing architectural oversight and technical guidance to partners supporting incidents, changes, service requests, releases, and other operational activities.
• Bringing forward engineering best practices and continuous improvement ideas.
• Coaching colleagues across the Integration team and Platform Domains in architecture, API design, and modern engineering practices.

You are a part of…

The IT Integration Team: a customer-focused, collaborative group at the Centre of business-critical end-to-end solutions for Philips. The team operates services globally, supports one another, and values diverse perspectives. It brings together business and technical expertise to design and deliver integration solutions and architecture across the organization.

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

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working in an Agile software development lifecycle.
• 10+ years of experience in integration, solution architecture, or a related domain, including hands-on delivery experience.
• Strong experience designing API-led integration solutions and applying API management, security, lifecycle, versioning, and governance practices.
• Experience with a range of integration approaches and technologies, such as REST or event-driven APIs, messaging, SaaS integrations, and cloud or hybrid platforms.
• Knowledge of integration standards and protocols, such as HTTP, OAuth 2.0, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and event or messaging protocols.
• Experience applying AI assisted development tools or practices in software engineering, with an understanding of their benefits, limitations, and appropriate human oversight.
• Ability to assess AI related opportunities and risks, and to guide teams on secure, responsible, and effective adoption.
• Experience with architecture modelling and communication tools such as UML, Visio, draw.io, or similar.
• Experience working with partner teams and coaching junior colleagues.
• Ability to understand how integration solutions enable business outcomes, explain architectural decisions in business terms, and communicate effectively with business leadership.
• Ability to drive efficiency and continuous improvement, including through Lean practices.
• A track record of delivering high-quality, secure, and maintainable integration solutions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.