Assoc Dir, Engineering

Description

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know.

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

The Technology & Data Solutions (TDS) business unit is the Syneos Health accelerator for life sciences innovation. TDS houses our advanced technology acquisitions, homegrown products & applications, actively participates in new M&A and partnership activities, delivers critical insights as part of our integrated strategy for customers and drives enterprise-wide adoption and change management for innovative tech & data solutions. Our work supports getting meaningful new medicines to patients faster, with greater positive impact. Manages our software development team in a cross functional environment and collaborates with stakeholders to advance our company mission and contribute to the core product experience.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage teams of software engineers. Responsibilities include line management, performance management, and professional development for those employees along with interviewing and onboarding new team members

• Establish and enforce engineering best practices and standards. Contribute to engineering wiki and document work.

• Identify and execute on initiatives to increase code quality and consistency across the engineering organization

• Lead and manage teams who create solutions that leverage social media and mobile platforms

• Drive consensus across technology leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

• Optimize process and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement of the software development life cycle

• Present findings and recommendations to customers in a clear and concise way to drive appropriate outcomes in support of the team.

• Coordinates resources, project schedules and communications for related activities with customers, internal groups and external vendors and service providers.

• Builds effective relationships with business staff across the company’s business units to ensure projects to support them are delivered.

• Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) in Information Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Data

• Engineering, or related field required. Master’s degree (MS/MA) preferred.

• Professional software engineering experience

• Engineering management experience

• Strong system design experience

• Experience with JavaScript, Node.js, and React.js

• Understanding of database and event driven architecture

• Experience working with AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS/Kinesis etc)

• Experience with Apollo GraphQL a plus

• Experience developing low latency, high availability applications.

• Ability to manage developers in a fast-paced agile environment.

• Experience developing in serverless microservice environments.

• Familiarity with Domain Driven Design principles

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.