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Job Summary

• Define and continuously improve the integrated software development and test strategy in alignment with product roadmaps business priorities regulatory commitments architecture direction and release plans.
• Lead software developers automation engineers performance engineers and functional verification engineers; manage capacity hiring onboarding objectives coaching technical development succession planning and delivery accountability.
• Plan and lead engineering assignments involving the evaluation selection and adaptation of software designs technologies development methods test approaches tools and engineering practices.
• Provide technical direction from product conception through requirements architecture detailed design implementation integration verification release and sustaining activities.
• Establish software engineering governance covering estimation design and code reviews coding standards branching and configuration management unit and component testing static analysis code coverage technical debt defect management and quality metrics.
• Ensure software architecture and implementation meet requirements for maintainability security scalability performance reliability interoperability observability and supportability.
• Own delivery of cloud-native applications microservices REST and GraphQL APIs web user interfaces integration services and data processing capabilities using appropriate C#/.NET and related technologies.
• Establish test governance risk-based planning entry and exit criteria requirements traceability defect management quality dashboards and release-readiness assessments.
• Own the roadmap and governance for reusable C#-based REST API and UI automation frameworks including coding standards test-data management parallel execution logging reporting and environment configuration.
• Ensure unit component integration smoke regression performance scalability reliability security and release-level testing is incorporated into CI/CD pipelines with appropriate automated quality gates.
• Guide design development integration and verification of HL7 ADT FHIR resources clinical workflows EMR/EHR interfaces connected medical devices real-time communications notifications and downstream clinical systems.
• Implement configuration and change management throughout the complete product lifecycle including design development verification release and sustaining phases.
• Partners with product clinical systems architecture DevOps cybersecurity quality regulatory service manufacturing and external integration teams to resolve dependencies technical issues and product risks.
• Drive root-cause analysis by correlating application behavior source code automated and performance results logs API traces network data database records queues container metrics and infrastructure telemetry.
• Incorporate field issues customer feedback post-market learnings and production trends into product design improvements corrective actions regression coverage reliability testing and performance validation.
• Ensure compliance with the product development process design controls Quality System requirements software lifecycle procedures cybersecurity expectations and applicable regulatory standards.
• Maintain audit-ready requirements architecture and design records code and review evidence plans test cases objective evidence reports approvals and traceability in approved tools such as Jira Jama source-control platforms and validated test-management systems.
• Develop project plans engineering milestones resource strategies budgets and delivery forecasts; identify and mitigate issues that could affect quality cost scope or schedule.
• Manage external development partners contractors vendors and third-party service providers including technical direction deliverable acceptance and performance monitoring.
• Communicate development progress quality status technical risks mitigation plans resource needs architecture decisions test findings and go/no-go recommendations to program and leadership forums.

• B.E/B. Tech in Computer Science / Electronics & Communication / Electrical or related field
• 1218 years of software engineering software development testing verification quality engineering or performance engineering experience including at least 5 years leading multidisciplinary technical teams in a regulated or safety-critical environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing the complete software development lifecycle including requirements analysis architecture design implementation code review unit testing integration verification release and sustaining engineering.
• Strong hands-on or technical leadership experience with C#/.NET object-oriented design design patterns REST andGraphQLAPIs microservices web applications and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of functional and automation test strategy for REST APIs web user interfaces integration workflows and end-to-end regression using Playwright SeleniumNUnitxUnitMSTest or comparable technologies.
• Experience with software architecture and engineering practices such as clean architecture secure coding static analysis code quality code coverage configuration management branching strategies dependency management and technical-debt reduction.
• Experience validating distributed microservices event-driven systems JSON/XML SQL/PostgreSQL authentication authorization RabbitMQ Azure Service Bus MQTT or comparable technologies.
• Working knowledge of Azure Docker Kubernetes autoscaling service discovery role-based access control secrets management service mesh resilience and cloud observability.
• Experience with CI/CD architecture Git build automation automated quality gates pipeline troubleshooting artifact management deployment practices test reporting and engineering dashboards.
• Healthcare domain expertise covering HL7 v2 ADT messages and acknowledgements FHIR REST resources EMR/EHR workflows connected medical devices data integrity patient safety privacy and clinical risk.
• Knowledge of regulated healthcare software practices and standards such as IEC 62304 ISO 13485 ISO 14971 design controls cybersecurity expectations and formal verification evidence.
• Ability to manage complex projects and engineering programs within boundaries of quality time scope and budget while balancing development and verification priorities.
• Strong people leadership stakeholder influencing conflict resolution planning prioritization vendor coordination risk management and executive communication skills.

• Experience with SIP RTP WebSocket WebRTC audio/video communicationKamailioFreeSWITCHRTPEngine or comparable real-time communication technologies.

• Experience with Grafana Prometheus Application Insights APM platforms centralized logging packet analysis database diagnostics and automated performance-threshold evaluation.

• Knowledge of Azure Key Vault Azure App Configuration Redis WebPubSub Terraform KEDA infrastructure-as-code service virtualization and container security.

• Experience supporting regulatory audits formal submissions post-market investigations and enterprise-scale healthcare product releases.

• Familiarity with IEC 62304 ISO 13485 risk management cybersecurity expectations and quality systems for regulated healthcare software.

• Experience with Jira Jama validated toolchains Agile/Scrum delivery and formal release-readiness reviews.

• C#Azure Kubernetes performance testing healthcare interoperability PMP PRINCE2 or equivalent certification is advantageous.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation gender identity or expression protected veteran status disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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