Senior Engineering Manager

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and the environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 62,000 staff across a network of over 1,000 independent companies in 61 countries, operating 900 laboratories. Performing over 450 million tests every year, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

Eurofins is one of the fastest growing listed European companies with a listing on the French stock exchange since 1997.

Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd (EITSI) is a fully owned subsidiary of Eurofins and functions as a Global Software Delivery Center exclusively catering to Eurofins Global IT business needs. The code shipped out of EITSI impacts the global network of Eurofins labs and services.

The primary focus at EITSI is to develop the next generation LIMS (Lab Information Management system), Customer portals, e-commerce solutions, ERP/CRM system, Mobile Apps & other B2B platforms for various Eurofins Laboratories and businesses. Young and dynamic, we have a rich culture and we offer fulfilling careers.

Senior Engineering Manager

Eurofins IT Solutions, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

With facilities in Europe, the United States and Asia, Eurofins Genomics is an internationally leading provider of DNA sequencing services, genotyping services, DNA synthesis products and bioinformatics services for pharma, diagnostics, food, agriculture, biotechnological and research markets.

Genomics business is enabled by global engineering teams working on next-generation applications and Laboratory information management systems (LIMS). As a Senior leader, you will leverage your extensive technical, functional and operational expertise to design and develop LIMS solutions for sequencing and synthesis business. These are sophisticated computer programs that will be used by our technicians in the laboratory. The product you build, and deliver is strategic to the success of Genomics business line

Working closely with diverse stakeholders, you will deliver a product that exceeds expectations and drives innovation. You will be empowered to influence and drive key decisions and with your leadership skills, navigate the complex Eurofins network. We are looking for leaders who will uphold the high-performance culture at Eurofins and as a senior manager, you will interface with the business and lead teams of developers, testers, scrum masters, and managers who will look up to you for support and guidance every day.

This role reports to Senior Director (IT Solutions) and involves international travel (10%)

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role as Sr. Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining a suite of LIMS solutions built on Microsoft and Java platforms from concept to delivery, building and working with a high performing team in the process and responsible to harmonize the platform for operational efficiency. The individual will be part of leadership team and collaborate with geographically distributed teams, including developer, DevOps, Cloud engineers, support.

Specific Assignments:

• Responsible for hiring, coaching and mentoring a high performing team.
• Provides strategic consultation to Business and IT leadership, recommendations and manages the entire project life-cycle phases.
• Defines priorities, elaborates roadmaps, and ensures that project deliverables are in line with the business requirements, delivered on schedule, and meeting the quality standards defined.
• Responsible for performance appraisal of the team members with regular 1-1 and providing constructive feedback to build individual competency and growth.
• Collaborate with other leaders to drive a culture of learning and elevating team maturity.
• Apply strong engineering principles to drive the best development practices.
• Technically hands-on and support and guide the team members in Design reviews and driving the best engineering practices.
• Be an evangelist of agility and ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles and values.
• Develop and deliver high quality shippable product as per the scope of the program working with internal and external stakeholders.
• Report to Project Steering Committee as per the schedule. This includes both functional reports to the Program Director and Project status reports for senior management review.
• Support Organization goal of adopting tenets of high performing organization and other initiatives in the journey to be Great place to work.

Skills required:

• Experience in driving IT transformations by defining the shared vision and strategies
• Extensive experience in working with people and stakeholders across geographies.
• Extensive experience in developing applications in Technology agnostic platforms
• Strong experience with enterprise architecture and development practices
• Strong experience in an Agile development environment and tools
• Strong experience in Azure cloud platform and services
• Strong orientation towards data driven insight and cost optimization.
• Experience in Automation and Performance engineering
• Experience working with stakeholders, preferably with US and Europe
• Passionate about software development with very good communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in IT Application/Software development with at least 5 years in leadership role
• Experience of at least 1 enterprise application from concept to delivery
• Working experience with Product development organizations of Pedigree

Tech Stack:

• Angular 12 and above, .NET Core, Java/Spring boot, Azure Cloud, SQL Server, Mongo DB, Development tools, Excel, Azure DevOps, Security tools

Personal Skills:

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to articulate and present different points-of-views on various topics related to project and otherwise.
• Eager to learn and continuously develop personal and technical capabilities.

Required Qualifications:

• MCA or Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL CRITERIA: Eurofins has a strong focus on Performance Management system. This includes quarterly calibrations, half-yearly reviews and annual reviews. The KPIs shall be set and may vary slightly between projects. These will be clearly communicated, documented during the first 30 days of your joining.