Description
Principal Solution Engineer II
Syneos Health is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization purpose-built to accelerate customer success. We lead with a product development mindset, seamlessly connecting our capabilities to add high-value insights to speed therapies to patients and provide practical value to help our customers achieve their objectives.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.
Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.
Job Summary
Serves as a technical lead and system owner of one or more platforms. Responsible for creating and
maintaining the platform architecture, deployment, and upgrades. As system owner, this role is
accountable for management of administration processes and tier 3 support. Interfaces with technology
infrastructure, security, production support, and external vendors to ensure capabilities are well
supported, secure, and maintained.
Qualifications
Requirements
- 8+ yrs of professional software engineering experience
- Strong experience with JavaScript/Typescript, Node.js and React
- Strong system design experience including diagramming and technical documentation
- Strong understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Strong understanding of database architecture and performance
- Strong understanding of asynchronous, object oriented, and functional programming design patterns
- Experience working with AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS/Kinesis etc)
- Experience with Apollo GraphQL a plus
- Experience developing and scaling REST APIs for various platforms
- Experience developing low latency, high availability applications
- Ability to deliver within a fast-paced agile software development environment
- Experience developing in serverless microservice environments
- Familiarity with Domain Driven Design principles
- Proven track record of collaborating with senior engineering staff, internal/external stakeholders and driving architecture decisions
- Experience identifying and executing on initiatives to increase code quality and consistency across the engineering org
- Passion for creating and enhancing developer tooling
- Experience starting projects from scratch as well as jumping into existing architecture
- Desire to keep up-to-date on the latest industry techniques and trends
Responsibilities
- Gather technical project requirements and specifications from clients and internal stakeholders (technical and non-technical) during the project development lifecycle.
- Translate business rules and stakeholder requirements into project specifications that leverage internal and external systems.
- Lead the design of data ingestion and transformation systems and processes.
- Support development team by developing technical and architectural plans, generating documentation, and assembling presentation material that define project technical approaches, constraints and milestones.
- Engage directly with technical stakeholders to communicate project updates (via in-person demonstrations, virtual calls/emails) throughout the production lifecycle.
- Coordinate internal (software engineers, product managers, business stakeholders) and external resources (e.g., vendors) to ensure efficient and timely delivery schedule.
- Independently prototype tools and resources for quick-turn proof-of-concept scenarios, troubleshooting, and project development.
- Manage multiple, complex production requirements, workstreams, and timelines, while ensuring that project outcomes match or exceed stakeholder expectations.
- Mentor and coach junior team members across the business.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
Additional Information
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
