Job Description

At Bristol Myers Squibb, we are inspired by a single vision – transforming patients’ lives through science. In oncology, hematology, immunology and cardiovascular disease – and one of the most diverse and promising pipelines in the industry – each of our passionate colleagues contribute to innovations that drive meaningful change. We bring a human touch to every treatment we pioneer. Join us and make a difference.

Position Summary:

This is a technical lead position accountable for leading, designing, developing, and delivering digital capabilities for Chemistry Labs in Research & Early Development with a focus on chemistry-related lab process automation operations, Chemistry domain meta data management and Data Insights.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define strategic technology roadmaps, develop solution proposals, contribute to project business cases, and estimate budgets for new IT capabilities.
• Develop solution architectures for new capabilities ensuring they satisfy business needs, are appropriately aligned with BMS Enterprise Architecture (EA) and industry standards and are engineered to be reliable, cost effective, scalable and sustainable throughout the expected lifecycle.
• Lead the technical delivery for new capability projects including architecture, design, development, testing, integration, and deployment.
• Drive innovation by advising project teams and other stakeholders on the external technology landscape both within the Pharmaceutical Industry and beyond, evaluating new technologies, supporting POCs/prototyping, and participating in the development of new capabilities and service offerings including .Net, Java, Oracle, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Agile development, and leading-edge scientific technologies.
• Own the end-to-end responsibility for managing Digital Capabilities though their lifecycle ensuring they are reliable, accessible, and secure.
• Ensure solutions satisfy business needs, are appropriately aligned with BMS and industry standards, and are engineered to be reliable, cost effective, scalable, and sustainable throughout the expected lifecycle.
• Coordinate the delivery of technical teams including integration architecture definition, technical design, development, testing, integration, and deployment.
• Author and/or review technical documentation including solution architecture, technical design, detailed design.
• Support the evaluation of new technologies, delivery methods (e.g., SaaS/PaaS/IaaS), and application development methodologies and supporting toolsets.
• Managing service delivery of internal and external providers.
• Influence vendor roadmaps to align with BMS strategy.
• Financial management with a focus on identification and implementation of improvements to reduce operating costs.
• Some tier 2 and tier 3 technical support (triage, break/fix, solution design, and delegation of implementation).

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or scientific discipline. Masters or other advanced degree is a plus. 
• At least 5 years of progressive information technology experience, with responsibility for business analysis, solution architecture and implementation on large scale projects.
• Excellent technical leadership and collaboration skills to work effectively with partners across matrix organizations, including service providers and vendor engineers.
• Strong communication, planning, organization, and collaboration skills are required.
• Hands on development experience with .Net, Java, Oracle, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, XML, HTML, CSS, and HTML5
• Writing, debugging, unit testing, and performance test code in all applications layers, including front end (Web), middle layer (Web Services), and data access layer.
• Must have demonstrated success delivering complex application systems, services-based application integration, reporting and analytics, and supporting infrastructure. Agile software development, automated testing, and DevOps experience is preferred. 
• Strong technical skills in architecture principles, modern web application technologies stack, middleware integration, database design, data integration and web services. Strong knowledge on MVC and SOA architecture.
• Working knowledge of software development life cycles, configuration management and best software engineering practices.
• Experience in implementing scientific digital capabilities in scientific workflows towards compound designing and chemistry execution process automation is highly preferred.  Domain knowledge in chemistry and drug discovery process is a strong plus.

Around the world, we are passionate about making an impact on the lives of patients with serious diseases. Empowered to apply our individual talents and diverse perspectives in an inclusive culture, our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. 

Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is an essential job function of this role which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and enhances the Company culture.

To protect the safety of our workforce, customers, patients and communities, the policy of the Company requires all employees and workers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless they have received an exception based on an approved request for a medical or religious reasonable accommodation.  Therefore, all BMS applicants seeking a role located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico must confirm that they have already received or are willing to receive the full COVID-19 vaccination by their start date as a qualification of the role and condition of employment.  This requirement is subject to state and local law restrictions and may not be applicable to employees working in certain jurisdictions such as Montana. This requirement is also subject to discussions with collective bargaining representatives in the U.S.

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