Senior Specialist, Software Engineering

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Job Description
Job Title Senior Specialist, Software Engineering
Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.
A Sr. Software Engineer will redefine the “art of the possible” and unleash the potential of the modern technical stack by developing and testing software solutions and integrating them with our company’s R&D enterprise applications. Reporting to the Director, Strategic Programs in the Enablement and User Advocacy (EUA) Value team within our Company Research Laboratories IT, this position will be responsible for designing and developing new solutions, conducting hyper-accelerated prototyping of the latest technologies, including AI/GenAI-driven solutions, and developing an implementation roadmap to deliver the successful prototypes to the product teams within Research Laboratories IT.
The successful candidate will also perform product discovery and define the end-to-end conceptual and technical design. We expect you to show technical leadership, deep technical expertise, and accountability, and use your skills to mentor and develop the people you lead.
Primary Tasks
Develop a good understanding of our company’s biopharmaceutical R&D business processes, systems, and data
Collaborate with cross-functional value teams, including business technology partners, product managers, data scientists, and software engineers, to understand data requirements
Be a role model by creating a culture of curiosity, learning, building, and experimentation
Perform ongoing market research and technology assessments around emerging industry trends and helps align these to the enterprise roadmap.
Establish and provide leadership to the technology strategy and roadmaps for the most strategic and complex tech domains and platforms
Construct, amend, and verify software systems, components, and integrations by writing software programs subject to estimation, measurement, quality processes, appropriate documentation, and continuous improvement processes
Enables and maintains software configuration management capability across heterogeneous technology environments, architectures, and platforms
Create and adapt software configuration applications and interfaces
Develops and employ software capabilities empowering creation, renewal, update, and destruction of data subject to given objectives regarding security, compliance, policy, scalability, efficiency, reliability, fidelity, flexibility, and portability
Ensure that industry-accepted architecture principles, standards, guidelines and concepts are integrated with those of allied domains and coordinated roll-out and adoption strategies are in place
Facilitate communication between technical teams and more broadly with the business when leveraging relevant domains
Stay current with technology trends and introduces modern best practices to Research Laboratories IT
Develops a library of deployable and documented design patterns and reference architectures
Education Requirement
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or any Technology Stream, or equivalent relevant experience
Required Qualifications And Skills
5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or AI Engineering
Proven experience in developing web applications using modern front-end and back-end technologies
Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and one or more backend programming languages.
Full stack (programming/software development, database administration, animation development, information security, solution architecture, cloud platforms, Software Configuration, Systems Design, & Management)
Strong understanding of database systems, both SQL and NoSQL
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
Expertise in version control systems like Git
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and agile development methodologies
Hyper automation (real-time / embedded systems development, systems and software lifecycle engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, business process improvement)
Experienced with relational and non-relational databases
Familiarity with building scalable AI Solutions within a modern technology stack, which includes cloud services, data pipelines, database, and other necessary tooling
Familiarity with CI/CD and test-driven development
Experience in building RESTful APIs for AI models
Familiarity with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques
Familiarity with prompt engineering techniques, such as instruction design, template-based approaches, rule-based conditioning, or fine-tuning strategies
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Must be analytical, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Preferred Qualifications And Skills
Experience working in an Agile Methodology in GxP, highly regulated environments
Additional programming languages such as Node.js / TypeScript, C#, or Java
Demonstrated experience in developing and refining prompts for generative AI models, preferably in creative or text generation domains
Experience with AWS Cloud
Experience with building, deploying, and managing Docker images
We are an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Our company is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace.
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