Senior Manager, Connected Channel Tech Lead
The Opportunity
- Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
- Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
- Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Role Overview
We are currently looking for a Technical Product Lead, to join our Team. Reporting hierarchically to Connected Channel Product Owner, you will be responsible for the delivery of business system solutions and processes that are based on blockchain technology in our program. This digital innovation program is designing, developing, and implementing blockchain based solutions across all business units in the company at a global level. The program is actively seeking partnerships with stakeholders in our business, both internal and external, to develop and implement pharma industry standard solutions.
What Will You Do In This Role
- Guide a team of software designers and developers, overseeing the design, coding, verification, testing, documentation, modification, and refactoring of complex programs, scripts, and integration software services.
- Lead the design of software applications and components, ensuring alignment with project goals and strategic objectives. Develop and contribute to solution architecture across business, infrastructure, and functional areas, promoting scalability and maintainability.
- Foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing by engaging with cross-functional teams and leaders across the organization. Build strong communities of practice to break down silos, align on shared goals, and drive cohesion in designing and implementing larger software systems.
- Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, conducting design reviews, offering hands-on support when needed, and ensuring adherence to modern design methodologies and architectural principles.
- Drive the adoption and implementation of DevOps practices to optimize scalability, performance, and delivery efficiency.
What Should You Have
- You are a highly motivated self-starter and curiosity is what drives you. You embrace and value lean and agile principles to achieve positive outcomes and love to work in a team with a common sense and a good communicator that gets to the point quickly
- 5+ Years of demonstrated experience in the one or more of the following fields Software Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Solution Architecture
- Must possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Candidate must be able to communicate effectively across global boundaries and with a variety of functional areas and levels in the organization
- Familiarity with various stages of the software development lifecycle and experience in employing related methodologies.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
- Innovative thinking, experimental mindset.
Good to Have
- Preferably knowledge and experience in developing and implementing blockchain technology-based business solutions
- Experience being a people’s manager.
What We Look For
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us and start making your impact today.
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Employee Status
Regular
Relocation
VISA Sponsorship
Travel Requirements
Flexible Work Arrangements
Hybrid
Shift
Valid Driving License
Hazardous Material(s)
Required Skills
Channel Partner Management, Channel Partner Marketing, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Flyer Distribution, Leaflet.js, Management Process, Managing Distribution Channels, Marketing, Product Management, Sales Operations, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Staff Hiring, Staffing Services, System Designs, Systems Integration, Technical Consulting, Technical Management, Technical Projects, Testing
Preferred Skills
Job Posting End Date
08/20/2025
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Requisition ID
R350702
