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The Lead Software Engineer / Technical Lead will serve as a key technical leader within Patient Safety IT, responsible for architecting, delivering, and operating technology solutions that enable critical Pharmacovigilance capabilities including signal detection, safety case processing, aggregate reporting, and risk management across existing and emerging Patient Safety products and platforms. This role combines deep engineering expertise, business alignment, and Engineering & Operations ownership, with accountability for translating complex Patient Safety requirements into scalable, secure, compliant, and high-performing digital solutions.
The incumbent will provide technical leadership across the full solution lifecycle — design, build, deployment, operations, and continuous improvement — while partnering closely with Product Managers, Architects, Validation, Quality, and global business stakeholders. The role requires strong technical judgment, the ability to influence architecture and delivery decisions across teams, and a commitment to driving measurable improvements in patient safety outcomes, operational efficiency, and platform reliability in a highly regulated life sciences environment.
Balances technical depth with business acumen , ensuring that solution choices are grounded in Patient Safety priorities, compliance needs, and long-term platform sustainability.
Brings a service ownership mindset , with strong focus on operational excellence, reliability, observability, and continuous improvement.
Ability to simplify complexity , translating highly specialized pharmacovigilance and engineering requirements into scalable, practical, and user-centred solutions.
Comfortable challenging the status quo and championing modern engineering, automation, AI-assisted development, and quality-by-design practices where appropriate.
Partner with Patient Safety Product Managers, business stakeholders, and PV subject matter experts to translate complex business requirements into scalable digital capabilities that improve the timeliness, quality, and effectiveness of key pharmacovigilance processes
Lead technical design decisions and trade-off discussions across applications, integrations, workflows, and cloud-native services to ensure scalability, maintainability, security, and compliance .
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned platforms, providing guidance during solution design, delivery planning, and operational issue resolution.
Design, develop and deliver scalable, secure, cloud‑based solutions using Java, Spring Boot, ReactJS, PostgreSQL and associated full‑stack frameworks
Build microservices, REST APIs, UI components, integrations, and reusable libraries.
Drive high‑quality coding practices, SDLC documentation, CICD pipelines, and deployment automation. Manage security vulnerabilities and implement secure coding best practices
Ensure compliance with SDLC, validation, audit requirements, and data integrity standards expected in highly regulated environment
Conduct root-cause analysis, troubleshoot complex issues, and support L2/L3 operation teams as needed
Provide technical guidance to junior developers, ensuring best practices and engineering discipline
Define, monitor, and improve service health, reliability, performance, availability, and operational readiness , including metrics, alerts, support processes, and runbook maturity
Identify opportunities to leverage advanced analytics, Agentic AI, automation, and emerging technologies
Lead technical discussions, design reviews, cross-team alignment and mentor junior engineers and promote a culture of excellence; establish a culture of proactive monitoring and risk mitigation rather than reactive support
Deep hands-on expertise across AWS infrastructure services: EC2, VPC, ECS/EKS (Fargate), Lambda, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, ALB, Route 53, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, API Gateway, IAM, KMS, and Secrets Manager
Strong experience designing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tools (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy) and/or Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Bitbucket Pipelines
Experience with containerized deployments using Docker, Amazon ECR, ECS/EKS, including blue/green and canary release strategies
Practical experience using AI‑assisted engineering tools (e.g., code copilots) to accelerate development, test generation, refactoring, and documentation, with a disciplined approach to code quality and security.
Prompting and evaluating LLM outputs for engineering tasks (e.g., creating unit tests, converting requirements to acceptance criteria, generating API stubs) and grounding outputs against source specs.
Experience in pharmacovigilance, patient safety, REMS, or broader regulated life sciences platforms is strongly preferred. Familiarity with PV processes such as signal management, case processing, risk management, and safety reporting will be a significant advantage
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