Technical Lead - Clinical Platform

Job Description
Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.
Our organization partners closely with our Company's Research & Development (R&D) org to provide innovative solutions that enable new products and capabilities within the Research & Development. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.
To enable this, we are seeking a Technical Lead for our Company's Clinical eco-system to partner with R&D and other orgs to define the roadmap, own and prioritize the technical solution.
Responsibilities:

• Establishes system design and provides basis for verification and construction of systems compatible with modern architectures and services, with supporting models and abstractions powering the software lifecycle while adhering to regulatory and organizational standards.
• Develops integrated software systems, processes, and procedures aligned with continuous improvement, organizational standards surrounding security, reporting, observation, and control.
• Designs, leads, and directs the process, verification, and resolution of incident, recovery, and post-mortem management processes. • Develops and designs software system configuration capabilities across heterogenous technology environments, architectures, and platforms.
• Performs the evaluation, design, and selection of appropriate structured, unstructured, or hybrid data engineering solutions across various physical and digital topologies with consideration to satisfying software requirements with necessary concerns of security, compliance, scalability, efficiency, reliability, fidelity, flexibility and portability.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities.
• Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.
• Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security.
• Contributes to the development of organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.
• Specifies and designs large or complex software applications, components and modules. Adopts and adapts software design
  methods, tools and techniques.
• Undertakes impact analysis on major design options, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
  Specifies prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision-making.
• Evaluates software designs to ensure adherence to standards and identifies corrective action. Ensures that the software
  design balances functional, quality, security and systems management requirements.
• Contributes to the development of organizational software design and architecture policies and standards.

Prerequisites:

• 6+ years in Information Technology.
• 3+ years in designing and engineering of software handling large amounts of clinical trial data from multiple sources.
• 3+ years in Clinical Trial software experience.
• In-depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology.
• Ability to prioritize effectively.
• Excellent knowledge of user-centered design principles.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Ability to work with large teams.
• Understanding of design quality standards.
• Expertise with Jenkins, Bitbucket, JIRA & Confluence.

Other Skills:

• Demonstrated leadership experience, leading teams through influence.
• Strong analytical thinker and problem-solving skills.

Education:
Required: High school diploma or equivalent.
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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
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
1st - Day
Valid Driving License:
Yes
Hazardous Material(s):
N/A