Software Engineering Technical Lead

at Merck in Dover, Delaware, United States
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 Company's Scientific Software Engineering team is responsible for the core components used to build our Company's Research Labs' data analytics, visualization, and management workflows. Our products play a crucial role at most stages of the research process by delivering on our Company's commitment to embrace advanced digital solutions and automated data analytical workflows in helping our scientists with drug discovery.
We collect, annotate, evaluate petabytes of scientific data (multi-omics, chemistry, imaging, safety) used in biomarker research, drug safety/efficacy, drug target discovery, and compendium diagnostic development. We help our scientists a) to process, evaluate scientific data at scale by developing highly parallelized analytical workflows ran on HPC infrastructure (on-prem & cloud); b) to manage, explore and visualize various scientific data modalities by developing bespoke data models, ETL processes, data retrieval and visualization services using distributed micro-service architecture, FAIR data principles, SPA type dashboards, industry specific regulatory compliant data integrity, auditing, and security access controls.
We are a creative and disciplined software engineering team, using agile practices and established technology stacks to design and develop large-scale data analytics, visualization, and management software solutions for local and on-cloud hosted HPC datacenters, as well as to integrate 3rd party analytical platforms with internal data workflows to address pressing engineering and data science issues of life-science.
We are looking for Software Engineers who can break down and solve complex problems with a strong motivation to get things done with a boots-on-the-ground, pragmatic mindset! Our engineers own their products end to end and influence the way how our products and technology are deployed to facilitate most aspects of drug discovery impacting hundreds of thousands of patients around the world. We are looking for engineers who can creatively handle complex dependencies and ambiguous requirements, competing business priorities, while producing fit-for-purpose, optimal solutions.
We are hoping that you are passionate about collaborating across the interface between hard-core software development and research and discovery data analysis.
Responsibilities: + Design and implement engineering tools, applications and solutions that facilitate research processes and scientific discovery in several areas of our drug discovery process.
+ Help drive the design and architecture of adopted engineering solutions with a detail-oriented mindset
+ Promote and help with the adoption of development, design, architecture, and DevOps best practices, with a particular focus on agile deliver mindset
+ Lead and mentor smaller team of developers (squads) to ensure timely and quality delivery of multiple product iterations
+ Drive product discovery and requirements clarification for ambiguous and/or undefined problems framed with uncertainty.
+ Manage technical and business dependencies and bottlenecks; balance technical constraints with business requirements; and deliver maximum business impact with solid customer experience
+ Help stakeholders with go/no-go decisions on software and infrastructure by assessing gaps in existing software solutions (internal/external), by vetting technologies/platforms and vendor products
+ Strong collaboration, organization skills in cross-functional teams; ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences; work closely with scientists, peers, and business leaders in different geographical locations to define and deliver complex engineering features
Education: + B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science/engineering or equivalent technical field
Qualifications: + Proficient (5 years hands-on experience) w/ at least one language: Python,
+ Proven ability (3 years hands-on experience)
+ to build robust, scalable microservice architecture-based engineering solutions with a focus on scientific data analysis and management
+ to drive API ( REST , GraphQL, etc.) driven modular development of production workflows and integration with 3rd party vendor platforms
+ to create relational data models, ETL processing pipelines using PostgreSQL (preferred), Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL
+ to integrate AWS services (EC2/ RDS /S3/Batch/ KMS / ECS etc..) into production workflows
+ 5 years hands-on experience
+ with scripting languages: Python, Bash
+ with Linux OS command line
+ 5 year hands-on experience
+ with building resource intensive HPC analysis modules and/or data processing tasks
+ 5 years of experience
+ to integrate algorithms, scientific workflows, machine learning tools developed by computational and/or quantitative data scientists
+ Proven experience with resource scheduler Nextflow (or its equivalent, such as Cromwell, Snakemake)
+ Strong collaborator, communicator and problem-solving skills
+ Has made technical partnerships with research and business teams
Preferred qualifications: + 1 years of experience
+ with developing pipelines using workflow managers (ex. Nextflow) and AWS Batch
+ with developing and deploying containerized applications (i.e., Docker, Singularity)
+ with frontend development (any JS framework)
+ with end-to-end testing framework: Robot/Selenium
+ Prior experience with
+ with building, troubleshooting C, C++ libraries and dependencies on Linux (maven, make, etc.)
+ with using statistical software development stacks Matlab and/or R
+ production workflows using Java/Spring,
+ with building CI/CD workflows with Jenkins or equivalent
+ with using IaC frameworks (CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform)
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