Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead a team to design, build, and maintain efficient and scalable software services and applications that deliver value to our customers
- Mentor and coach a team of software engineers at various experience levels
- Act as a resource for software developers on policies, procedures and technical issues
- Develop close relationships and work with business and technical leads, architects, and product owners, based in the US, to ensure the team's work is aligned with business goals and enterprise-level architectural standards, and that the solution delivered is of the highest quality
- Assess current software development practices to identify and implement process and software improvements
- Use cutting-edge technologies to promote new ways of solving problems
- Collaborate with our DevOps team to design, develop, and maintain CI processes for regular and efficient releases
- Collaborate on architecture and design of new software applications and enhancements of existing applications
- Serve as an expert technical resource for software architecture and development
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Leadership Qualifications
- 3 years’ experience managing software development teams in a distributed and global setup, including leadership of both internal and outsourced/offshore development teams
- 3+ Experience with multi-modal collaboration (in-office, hybrid and remote), and collaboration across time zones
- 5+ years of experience planning and delivering software projects within and across teams, including resource allocation and managing cross-functional dependencies. Ability to build clear and realistic project delivery plans
- Superb verbal and written communication skills. Capacity to convey technical considerations to non-technical audiences, understand business drivers and draw impacts for the technical teams, and utilize appropriate tools for each mode of communication.
- Ability to manage multiple small engineering teams across multiple projects and deliverables.
- Experience within the healthcare or life sciences sector, familiar with regulatory environment
- 10+ years of software development
- 8+ years of programming experience in Java
- 5+ years of experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- 5+ years of experience developing or using facing RESTful APIs
- Expertise in data modeling and developing schemas (relational databases, XML/JSON)
- Experience in developing LIMS Applications, such as LabVantage
- Experience with Amazon Web Services or similar cloud architectures
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment leveraging an agile development framework
- Good understanding of Test Automation and Continuous Integration
- B.S. or higher degree in computer science, engineering, or related areas
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