We re on a mission to change the future of clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the biopharmaceutical industry bring medical treatments to the market, faster. Our mission is to change the world but to do this, we need people like you. Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you: HEALTH: - Medical plan for you and your dependents. - Personal Accident Insurance - Life Insurance - Critical illness cover WEALTH: - Salary structure and Flexi basket - Provident fund of 12% - Gratuity scheme YOURSELF: Internal growth and development programs trainings Job Summary: As Principal Software Engineer, you will develop, document, and test software to ensure that the software meets the needs of end-users and achieves business goals and standards. In this role, you will also provide technical guidance to development teams and oversee the technical aspects of all projects as well as provide coaching and mentorship to less experienced colleagues and teams. Key Accountabilities: Emerging technology monitoring Monitors the market to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Assesses and documents impacts, threats and opportunities to the organization. Creates technology roadmaps. shares knowledge and insights with others. System design Adopts and adapts appropriate systems design methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches, and ensures they are applied effectively. Designs large or complex systems. Undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-off. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Reviews others systems designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and integration of multiple systems and technology. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Contributes to development of systems design policies and standards and selection of architecture components. Programming Software development Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development. Software design Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate software design methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches. Specifies and designs large or complex software components. Undertakes impact analysis on major design options, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Specifies prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision making. Evaluates the quality of others systems designs to ensure adherence to standards and identifies corrective action, if needed. Ensures that the system design balances functional, service quality, security and systems management requirements. Contributes to development of organisational software design and architecture policies and standards. Quality Management Assists project managers, functional managers or team leaders in planning the quality management for their area of responsibility. Assists in the development of new or improved practices and organisational processes or standards. Facilitates localised improvements to the quality system or services. Quality Assurance Contributes to the collection of evidence and the conduct of formal audits, reviews or compliance of activities, processes, data, products or services. Examines records for evidence that appropriate testing and other quality control activities have taken place and determines compliance with organisational directives, standards and procedures. Identifies non-compliances, non-conformances and abnormal occurrences. Data modelling design Investigates corporate data requirements, and applies data analysis, design, modelling, and quality assurance techniques, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components Provides advice and guidance to database designers and others using the data structures and associated components. Database design Provides expert guidance in the selection, provision and use of database and data warehouse architectures, software and facilities. Provides specialist expertise in the design characteristics of database management systems (DBMS) or data warehouse products / services. Ensures that physical database design policy supports transactional data requirements for performance and availability. Ensures that data warehouse design policy supports demands for business intelligence and data analytics. Measurement Collect and maintain data for measurement. Generate and produce reports, distribute reports. Present progress updates to relevant stakeholders Use measurement tools for routine analysis of data. Solution Architecture Leads the development of systems architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development. Within a change programme, leads the preparation of technical plans and, in liaison with business assurance and project staff, ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available. Provides advice on technical aspects of solution development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly. Consultancy Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates and recommends options, implementing if required. Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements. Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited. Relationship Management Translates communications / stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables Builds long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external). Facilitates the engagement of stakeholders and delivery of services and change projects, acting as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders, facilitating relationships between them. Negotiates to ensure that stakeholders understand and agree what will meet their needs, and that appropriate agreements are defined. Oversees monitoring of relationships including lessons learned and appropriate feedback. Leads actions to improve relations and open communications with and between stakeholders. Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information. Other Carryout any other reasonable duties as requested. Skills: Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail Understanding of common system architecture frameworks and concepts Technical awareness of Security and Application Software Development Ability to effectively delegate work to team members Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks Builds and maintains an in-depth knowledge of testing and validation within the life sciences industry and how they affect customers adopting our products Proactively participates in skills improvement training Ability to coach and mentor colleagues in the test team Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect testing and technology within the Life sciences domain. A self-starter and able to work under own initiative. Cloud Computing Azure Expertise - Deep understanding of Azure services, Serverless computing , Azure DevOpsCICD, Azure Security Programming Languages - Proficiency in Java Technologies, React Software Design - Ability to design develop distributed, scalable, secure, high-performance, highly-available cloud applications using Azure services Architectural patterns - Microservices, Event -Driven, Serverless ( leveraging Azure services). APIs Caching strategies Data Management - Experience with Azure SQL, Database Optimization. Security Compliance - Understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements.(IAM/Azure AD) Knowledge and Experience: Understanding of Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum), UML, Object Orientated, Data Modelling, Process Modelling and/or other development methodologies. Experience using tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders. Demonstrable experience in the same or very similar role. Experience in regulated environments (GxP, Financial, etc ) or relevant testing experience from another domain that is transferable. Proven relevant experience in systems integration and implementation, or software development, or a related discipline. Experience in working on scratch project work, working in tight timelines with a high-quality deliverable. Experience of working in Frameworks. - Hands-on practical experience delivering application development using Java/J2EE technologies. Advanced in Core Java (Java 8+), Spring MVC, SpringBoot, ORM (JPA/Hibernate), SOAP, RESTful web services and Unit testing frameworks. Experience in working on custom SQL queries. Education: Bachelors Degree (Masters preferred) in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience. English: Fluent. Come as you are. Were proud to be a Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
