Sr Principal Eng, Software

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, Karnātaka

Employment Type: Full time

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Owns/leads technology strategy and roadmap for the digital product line(s).

• Responsible for the architecture and design of a module/subsystem/project, makes architecture and design choices for new product development, sustenance activities, field issue resolution etc.

• Responsible for providing cross project technical guidance, and leadership within the teams to facilitate the completion and delivery of software.

• Apply and exemplify strong software engineering expertise to design and implement robust software architectures, while influencing the processes and methodologies used by the team to create quality software.

• Develop software components in a multi-technology environment, using design patterns, strong object-oriented principles, unit testing and automated testing tools that will be deployed in medical products.

• Participate in the formal documentation processes for requirements generation, software architecture, and detailed designs.

• Responsible for analyzing and understanding the product requirements and deriving the Software requirements.

• Identifies key product level technical risks and assists project manager in developing mitigation and recovery plan

• Review work products and ensure the quality of deliverables.

• Provides input to the test strategies at a product and module level.

• Provides guidance to development and test teams with respect to overall design and development.

• Leads and coaches the team members and play an active role in their development.

• Assess and identify actions to improve the competency (technical/product) of the team.

• Drives the application of principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and testing techniques.

• Owns and drives continuous improvement activities by identifying and appropriately escalating process and product quality gaps.

Qualifications / Experience and/or Background

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science & Engineering discipline or equivalent is required. 

• 15+ years’ experience in a software engineering role, with experience in web/mobile software products and leading architectural design.

• 5+ years’ experience developing software in Cloud environment

• Excellent software architecture, design and implementation skills (preferably for an application built from ground-up).

• Strong Object-Oriented development and design knowledge and experience.

• Deep understanding of technology & software development principles:

• o Analysis and Design: Object oriented architecture, Design Patterns

• o Enterprise Integration: Design patterns for enterprise integration, SOA, SOAP/REST, Microservices, Web portal API (REST APIs)

• o Programming Languages/Databases: React/Angular JS, Java Script, HTML, CSS, Python, Mongo DB etc.

• o Development and Continuous Integration tools like Azure DevOps, Visual Studio/Eclipse, SVN, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, BitBucket, Jira etc.

• o Code Quality tools like Coverity, Fortify, Unit test tools.

• o Hands on working in Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure).

• o Web framework: Express, Java Spring boot, Django.

• Experience in technically leading project teams involving SW architects and SW design engineers.

• Exposure and Hands on working knowledge in Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure)

• Demonstrated success in delivering results on technical challenges on enterprise products.

• Good understanding of Healthcare domain (regulations and standards) and Medical software development process is a plus.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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