Senior Staff Software Engineer loT - Bayer Corporation

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Senior Staff Software Engineer loT  

Position Purpose
As Senior Staff Software Engineer IoT, your role involves creating a strategic IoT platform roadmap, designing and deploying technical solutions, coordinating across teams, and managing an IoT platform for medical device connectivity. As a key contributor to the Connectivity team, you’ll collaborate with a cross-functional global team, make important decisions, and ensure the robustness of the IoT solution for successful customer outcomes. Additionally, you’ll work closely with customer and product teammates, program managers, vendors, and both onshore and offshore development teams to achieve success.
 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The primary responsibilities of this role are to:  

• Work as part of an agile product team to development, design, build, secure, upgrade, enhance and support the IoT platform and customer solutions which involve use of the platform.
• Work with product owner and program management to manage the product backlog, project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Interact directly with product owner and other stakeholders to gather and understand epics, user stories and features, translating these to tasks for sprit planning. 
• Develop solutions and services using the right tool for the job. Consistently contribute to solving organization-wide problems including shared platforms, libraries, and frameworks. 
• Identify and participate in the selection of new technologies and sustain software vendor and partner relationships. 
• Conduct functional and non-functional testing. 
• Troubleshoot and debug platform issues. 
• Deploy applications across all environments in collaboration with development and delivery teams.
• Champion code quality including unit and integration testing. 
• Evaluate existing applications to refactor, update and add new features. 
• Develop technical documentation needed to accurately represent application design and code and to validate and verify solutions. 
• Identify and pursue opportunities to improve own knowledge and skills and support upskilling junior engineers. 
• Identify opportunities to develop new and better solutions. 
• Anticipate and address technical and organizational obstacles affecting own team and teams within the domain platform. 
• Provide guidance for technical design and architecture decisions within and across teams.
• Mentor other people and teams on technologies, techniques or standards across the organization.
• Build relationships with key members of partner teams.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10 years experience solving challenging technical problems in three or more of the following areas: 
  • IoT application platform development and management
  • Web application development .
  • Unix/Linux environment management 
  • Cloud based continuous delivery and environment management  
  • Mobile application development  
  • Micro-service design and development
  • Large, distributed system development and management Software security  
  • Processing and analyzing large data sets 5 years designing and managing cloud-based software solutions.
• Strong understanding and demonstrated use of software development methodologies (e.g. Agile, SDLC).
• History of influencing technical decisions across organizations.
• Demonstrates strong business insight, strategic mindset, cultivates innovation, drives vision & purpose, and attracts & develops talent leadership competencies.
• GxP software experience
• Prior experience with medical device or regulated environments
• Strong problem-solving, decision making, communication and collaboration skills with the ability to think strategically
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
• Comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels in the organization and with external vendors
• Proven track record working in a cross functional global teams' establishing strong working relationships
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Preferred Qualifications:

• Real world PTC ThingWorx and ERP integration skills are a plus