Updated: July 25, 2024
Location: Chile-Latin America - CHL-Home-Based
Job ID: 24003430
Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.
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
The Sr. Director, Platform Engineering blends a deep knowledge of leading-edge technologies and software engineering practices with a passion for developing a community of platform engineers across the enterprise. You will collaborate with other technology leaders and community members to develop our software engineering strategy,
define standards, and implement modern cloud solutions and CI/CD automation processes.
As the leader of this team, you will use leadership and hands-on skills to drive best practices in software & system level design, coding, secure software practices, application frameworks, interfaces, testing, and deployments with the objective of continually improving the quality of our solutions, shortening delivery time, making it easier for developers in the field to deliver business solutions.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and execute technology strategy, future state architecture, and roadmap for engineering capabilities and processes.
- Influence organizational change to adopt industry standard engineering best practices.
- Identify build once and reuse patterns across multiple applications that can be implemented in platform technologies.
- Guide the design of platform engineering solutions with the platform engineering team.
- Lead the platform engineering team.
- Incubate new technologies and innovations that show promise for business value.
- Design, build, and operate standard DevOps processes to ensure we have a streamlined and integrated tool chain and increase degree of automation across the CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation to increase quality of our cloud infrastructure deployments while lowering the TCO.
- Build demonstrable prototypes for development and business teams.
- Implement and promote best practices in software development including Agile Development, Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Release Automation.
- Design solutions to enable cloud, web, mobile,
integration & contracts, and data solutions.
- Partner with Technical Leads to promote adoption of standard tools.
Qualifications
- Ten or more years of progressive experience in solution and system design, and engineering in a large, distributed computing environment.
- Understands object-oriented and architectural design patterns and programming by contracts.
- Cloud Native Engineering (AWS or Azure).
- Understand and know when to apply the following architectural patterns: Microservice, Event Driven, Reactive, Service Oriented, and Layered.
- DevOps tools and process implementation experience.
- Advanced understanding of Agile principles.
- A foundation of Software Engineering and hands-on expertise with:
- Serverless architecture (AWS Lambda or Azure Functions).
- Building solutions using Node.js backend services.
- Enterprise Integration technologies and patterns including REST APIs, streaming Kafka, messaging protocols JMS/AMQP, GraphQL.
- Designing and implementing containerized solutions using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge on leading-edge concepts in technology including Web Technologies, Big Data, APIs, IoT, Mobile, Gen AI/Machine Learning, Security, and Cloud Computing.
- Committed people leader capable of developing others within your knowledge area to accelerate and achieve increased skill proficiency.
- Able to work with co-located and distributed teams; experience working in a start-up environment is a plus.
- Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills to help in his/her interaction with a variety of stakeholders, ranging from developers to executives. Has developed very good facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills.
Desired education and/or Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
- Ten plus years of related experience.
- Agile Methodology certification (e.g. Lean, Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile, or SAFe).
What we're looking for
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.
At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we take into consideration transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.
Discover what our 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard, and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients' lives around the world.
Syneos Health is a leading integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers' delivery of important therapies to patients. We support a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture.
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Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status and will not be discriminated against. If you are an individual with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to complete any part of our application process, including the use of this website, please contact us at: Email: ****** One of our staff members will work with you to provide alternate means to submit your application.
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