Technical Consultant - Patient Monitoring (Field: Hartford/New Haven, CT)
Philips
Summary
Accelerate your impact as a Technical Consultant in our Hospital Patient Monitoring business, where you’ll independently lead complex patient monitoring implementations, serve as a trusted technical expert to customers, and drive reliable, secure, and high-performing healthcare solutions while mentoring others and shaping how services are delivered.
Job description
Your role:
- Independently lead and execute complex system installations, upgrades, and implementations across patient monitoring and IT infrastructure environments, ensuring reliable performance and high-quality delivery. Provide hands-on expertise in troubleshooting, validation, and system optimization to maintain operational continuity.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for system architecture, networking decisions, configuration validation, and risk management. Diagnose and resolve complex system and performance issues using advanced troubleshooting techniques and structured problem-solving approaches.
- Engage customers as a trusted advisor to understand technical environments, workflows, and operational challenges. Lead technical discussions and deliver tailored recommendations that align solutions with clinical, business, and strategic objectives.
- Own configuration management, version control, and system validation while developing and promoting standardized methodologies and best practices. Ensure consistency, scalability, and compliance while contributing to continuous improvement and organizational knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with sales, clinical, service, and project teams while mentoring junior consultants to build technical capability and consistency. Represent the organization professionally, strengthening customer relationships and supporting long-term success and growth.
You're the right fit if:
- You’ve acquired 5+ years of professional working experience in IT services or related technical environments. Experience working in a hospital or clinical IT environment required; experience with patient monitoring, telemetry units, ventilators, and defibrillators highly preferred.
- Your skills include advanced knowledge of computer networking, system integration, and technical troubleshooting in a healthcare IT environment. Active Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification required; higher-level Cisco certifications (e.g., CCNP) are also acceptable.
- You have an associate degree in computer science, biomedical, engineering, or related field of study, or equivalent combination of education and above listed experience. Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this Field Service position. You must be able to: Travel for business. Approximately 75% travel across the specified geography is required. The average driving time is 1-4 hours daily. Occasional overnight stays and travel by air and/or train may be required. Work in an office/home office and/or remote setting, as well as in a hospital/healthcare environment; adhere to requirements and comply with vendor credentialing. Work flexible hours (based on business needs to include non-standard work hours, overtime, weekends, and on-call rotations). Wear all required personal protective equipment.
- You’re a technically strong and independent professional with a consultative approach to translating complex solutions, paired with strong communication, organizational rigor, and leadership skills that enable you to manage risk, influence others, and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional working experience in IT services or related technical environments
- Experience working in a hospital or clinical IT environment required
- Experience with patient monitoring, telemetry units, ventilators, and defibrillators highly preferred
- Advanced knowledge of computer networking, system integration, and technical troubleshooting in a healthcare IT environment
- Active Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification required; higher-level Cisco certifications (e.g., CCNP) are also acceptable
- Associate degree in computer science, biomedical, engineering, or related field of study, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Ability to travel approximately 75% across the specified geography
- Ability to work flexible hours including non-standard work hours, overtime, weekends, and on-call rotations
- Must reside in or within commuting distance to Hartford and New Haven, CT
- US work authorization required; no visa sponsorship
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- 401(k) up to 7% match
- Health Savings Account
- Stock Purchase Plan
- Education Reimbursement
- Company Fleet
- On-call Pay
- Incentive Bonus Plans
Company overview
Koninklijke Philips N.V., commonly known as Philips, is a Dutch multinational health technology company that has evolved from its origins as a consumer electronics conglomerate into a leading global healthcare solutions provider. Founded in 1891 in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Philips has transformed its business focus since the 2010s to concentrate exclusively on health technology. The company operates through three main divisions: Diagnosis and Treatment, which manufactures advanced medical imaging equipment including MRI, CT, and ultrasound scanners; Connected Care, specializing in patient monitoring systems and respiratory care products under the Respironics brand; and Personal Health, producing consumer healthcare products like electric shavers, Sonicare toothbrushes, and Avent childcare items. With 68,419 employees worldwide and annual revenues of €18.02 billion (2024), Philips maintains its global headquarters in Amsterdam while operating manufacturing, R&D, and sales facilities across 26 countries. The company has strategically divested its consumer electronics, lighting, and home appliance businesses to become a pure-play health technology organization, positioning itself at the forefront of medical innovation and digital healthcare solutions.