Technical Architect / Lead Programmer

Job Description

Participate as a Technical Architect and Lead member of IT team responsible for leading the architecture of internal and external diagnostic software products, day to day project/tasks management, developing and enforcing software application standards and practices, architecture, technical direction, databases and analytical tools that will support the various business and scientific needs of the company internally and externally.

Continuously develop & test best practice standards for software product/system architecture, development and create project specific documentation as required by ISO, SOX, SDLC and companies software development and design control methodology and procedures.

Receives Direction From: Sr. Director, Information Technology and Diagnostic Software Products

Provides Technical Direction To: Cross Functional Project team members

Duties and Responsibilities:

Participate in the team(s) responsible for developing and supporting business and diagnostic software applications, business process automation, and IT infrastructure, providing best practice technology support via knowledge transfer and documentation.

Develop project plans, tasks, milestone, deliverables, time-line and allocate tasks to project resources.

Update daily, weekly and monthly on project status, timer-line, deliverables and risk.

Project management, process re-engineering, process automation, and technological leadership on projects across the enterprise.

Supervision and guidance to development team members at programmer analyst and software testers' level.

Recommend, specify, develop, unit test, and implement new software programs as well as including enhancements to existing software systems and products.

Support project specific documentation as required by ISO and FDA regulatory standards, including requirements specifications, design documents, use cases, and test plans.

Support development of end-user documentation and test scripts.

Mentor and Coach IT staff with industry experience in code design, technology approaches, code review, best practice tools and techniques.

Encourage participation and take the lead on IT staff training brown bag sessions and structured education.

Initiate and engage vendor participation for new software products and technologies.

Manage customer expectations and deliver software products/tasks with restrictive timelines.

Interview internal customers to define requirements and create design and technical specifications encompassing all aspects of a project to include design approach, infrastructure, code review, and delivery.

Essential Functions: Work as a part of the project team in providing optimal software solutions within the given constraints such as time-line and budget. The job requires estimating time-line, cost, supervision and corresponding work plan for the responsible tasks and modules. Must provide leadership, supervision and project management support to team members to effectively manage tasks/modules within a project independently

Contacts and Relations: Ongoing coordination and communication with other members of the team including project leaders, programmers, business analysts, test/QA analysts, and documentation specialists, as well as third party technologies and software vendors. Actively participate in project team meetings and review sessions.

Accountability: Maintain confidentiality of all sensitive and proprietary data.Must take full responsibility and accountability for the architectural, design and technical side of the projects and meet the timeline and expectations.Must be able to lead team of people with diverse background. Provide reliable and detailed status reports on project tasks.Follow corporate quality policy and departmental ISO, FDA, SOX, and companies processes and procedures.

Qualifications

• Master Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Computational Biology. MBA is a plus
• Minimum of 10 - 20 years of hands-on software architecture and development experience
• Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented programming
• 7 to 10 years of hands-on experience with web applications, Python, C#, .NET, MS SQL, MySQL, Crystal/Microsoft Reporting, Visual Studio, Open Source (such as Linux and Linux based IDE products) software and application development.
• Must have successfully completed multiple medium size software products and projects using Linux, Python, .NET project with C#, MS SQL, MySQL, MS Visual Studio and other Linux based IDE as development environment
• Knowledge of Microsoft and Linux leading edge development and infrastructure technologies.
• Coursework or experience in Bioinformatics, Microbiology or Bio-chemistry is a plus

Desired Skills:

• Specify, plan, and code functioning software to solve existing user problems.
• Ability to understand and maintain code written by other people.
• Ability to maintain flexibility with respect to project work and environment.
• Ability to lead, motivate, mentor, work in teams and report project status to management as required.
• Ability to communicate clearly with wide range of individuals at various corporate levels.
• Creative problem solving and deal with ambiguity.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Additional Information

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