Principal Engineer and Chief Solution Architect

Job Description

• 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.

• Foster the creation of cutting-edge solutions that improve patient care and optimize workflows for healthcare professionals. Your contributions will play a vital role in pioneering advancements in medical technology, enabling you to make a meaningful difference in lives worldwide.

• Drive the development of innovative solutions that enhance patient care and streamline processes for healthcare professionals. Your work will directly contribute to groundbreaking advancements in medical technology, allowing you to make a tangible impact on lives around the globe.
  

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 the 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 seeking a seasoned principal developer with broad technical background and deep understanding of modern software architecture principles for our team in Singapore, with global impact. As a member of the Central Software Engineering team, you will be designing and reviewing software solutions, starting new software initiatives, setting up delivery teams and defining delivery methods and ways of working. You will be participating in definition of overall Engineering Strategy and implementation of new technology trends and ways of working. We require strong leadership skills in unknown environment (requirements, team setup, roadmap, etc.), excellent technical consultancy skills incl. analytical and numeric methods, ability to prepare, estimate and present complex solutions incl. architecture design, cost analysis, delivery modes, team setup, and other aspects of new software initiatives.

What will you do:

• Provide technical direction and guidance to the technical team, often in new and unknown environments.

• Participate in definition of standards, best practices, quality assurance processes and ensure these are adhered to in the delivery teams.

• Oversee the design and architecture of software solutions, often hands-on with direct technical contribution.

• Provide guidance and assessments in best practices, coding standards, and architectural principles.

• Lead top developers and architects in the Central Software Engineering organization, provide support, guidance and participate in their professional development.

• Engage in hands-on software development with flexibility in selection of programming languages.

• Write efficient and maintainable code for both back-end and front-end components.

• Work with data, databases and data integration platforms to design and optimize data models and data flows.

• Develop and implement integrations between different systems using APIs, integration platforms and ensuring seamless communication and data exchange across platforms.

• Upon large projects initiation or large software product reviews, provide hands-on guidance in automating and managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure).

• Upon large projects initiation or large software product reviews, provide hands-on guidance in IaC with Terraform.

• Upon large projects initiation or large software product reviews, enhance CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).

• Ensure the DevSecOps standards are followed in new initiatives or reviewed software products.

• Initiate projects by discussions with key business stakeholders, analyze the high-level requirements and propose optimal software solutions.

• Manage technical expectations of key stakeholders, including business product owners and technical product owners.

• Facilitate communication between business and technical teams, ensuring alignment on project goals and strategies.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams including business sponsors, product managers, Experience Design, and QA engineers.Lead and mentor colleagues, fostering their growth and development, with impact in the entire Software Engineering organization.

• Represent the Central Software Engineering organization in new large initiatives and / or reviewed solutions.

• Plan and estimate effort, oversee / manage end-to-end delivery.

• Identify risks and dependencies, remove obstacles, and support the technical teams.
  

What should you have:

• Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Proven experience in software development and delivery, with a minimum of 3 years in a leadership role.

• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, tools, and processes.

• Good project management skills with experience in agile.

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, incl. Corporate Diplomacy.

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).

• Understanding of the Pros & Cons and the fit for low-code platforms vs. full-fledged custom software solutions.

• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.

• Proficiency and hands-on, current practice in several of the programming languages we use: Java / Python / .NET / JS (Node React).

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools.

• Experience from designing and delivering large-scale solutions with a rapid delivery approach.

Key Competencies:

• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Collaboration: Strong team player with a collaborative mindset.

• Autonomy: ability to pick up initiatives, discuss and analyze the requirements with key stakeholders, define the delivery model, define architecture and lead the delivery.
  

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

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

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VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Required Skills:

Data Modeling, Design Applications, Release Management, Requirements Management, Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

01/13/2025

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