Sr Mgr, Software

This is whereyour work makes a difference.

At Baxter we believe every personregardless of who they are or where they are fromdeserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today tomorrow and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together our community is driven by a culture of courage trust and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here you will find more than just a jobyou will find purpose and pride.

As a Senior Manager Embedded Software at Baxter your work contributes directly to making a significant impact on others. As part of our Patient Support Systems and Global Surgical Solutions team you will help provide highly innovative integration solutions for Operating Rooms and medical facilities. Our vision is focused on new ways to improve the daily operations of the surgical teams as well as helping patient recover across the care continuum in the hospital.
This role will be embedded in the R&D team and provide technical leadership to a team involved in the development of innovative solutions for the patient support systems and surgical environment. You will put your experience at the service of the development team to raise the technical level and create unique products.

This position is based out of Bangalore and reporting to the Director for Patient Support Systems and Global Surgical Solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide technology leadership for robust embedded software development across multiple NPD sustaining and TCO projects for Baxters Patient Support Systems and Global Surgical solutions portfolio.

• Provide people leadership via performance development/career progression Program leadership via collaborating with cross-functional teams driving project planning/execution excellence and Technology leadership via driving high quality engineering and innovation within the team.

• Take total ownership of the teams deliverables and ensure on time delivery with high quality.

• Be a change agent. Drive agility process simplification in the organization and demonstrate sense of urgency.

• Champion continuous improvement activities by initiating process and product quality improvement initiatives. Drive functional excellence initiatives in the teams

• Coach and/or mentor staff resulting in all round competence enhancement and career progression.

• Drive a strong culture of innovation in the team.

• Stay abreast of Technology trends and be an agent for product evolution.

• Actively participate in recruiting candidates for technical positions and mentor junior technical staff.

• A solid technical understanding of the principles and procedures of software engineering (e.g. SDLC IEC 62304 CMMI Agile).

• Continue build expertise on embedded software development and push the boundaries including but not limited to adoption of AI to improve productivity solutions and outcomes.

• Be passionate about software quality and be prepared to advocate on behalf of good processes and best practices.

• Incorporates business market industry and competitive knowledge into technical solutions that can be readily adapted to changes in technology and/or clinical use.

• Seeks out knowledge of the business market industry and competitive environment.

• Challenges project teams and established work processes and proactively finds creative methods to reach desired performance levels.

• Participate and actively contribute towards budgeting and planning as well as ensuring adherence to budgets.

• Strategic planning and lead different initiatives towards achieving organizational goals.

Your Team:

You will be reporting to the Director for Patient Support Systems & Global Surgical Solutions. This position has direct reports. You will need to work collaboratively with R&D Marketing Finance and other cross functions.

Your Location:

The role is located in the BRD facility in Bangalore India.

What Youll Bring:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer/ Electronics Engineering Computer Science with 18 years of work experience in Software development with at least 5 years experience managing Software product development teams in a matrix organization.

• Experience in at least multiple complete embedded software development life cycle from concept to release and sustaining in a medical product domain.

• Experience with developing embedded software for connected medical devices with sensing and actuation controls and communication through Bluetooth wifi etc.

• Expertise in ISO1385 based design controls and experience in launching medical devices with certifications such as FDA 510K and exposure to other global medical device and software standards.

• Deep understanding of many technological areas below:

  • Experience in algorithms code optimization encryption multiple language support

  • C C Embedded C Assembly

  • Ability to work in a Linux development environment

  • ARM / AVR /STM processor development

  • Experience in embedded RTOS development

  • Experience with USB Ethernet RS232 Bluetooth Wifi Zigbee and other communications protocols

  • Experience with sensor sampling

  • Ability to develop boot loader code for microcontrollers

  • Debugging software/hardware using logic analyzer or Oscilloscope

  • FPGA programming skills would be a plus

  • Knowledge in JAVA and Python would be a plus

  • Intel embedded X86 development a plus

  • DSP & Video processing knowledge is a plus.

  • Working level knowledge with standards such as IEC 62304 IEC 62366 IEC 60601 ISO 13485 and ISO14971.

• Broad understanding of many technological areas is a plus.

  • Analysis and Design: Object oriented architecture Design Patterns UML

  • Embedded Software Development

  • Programming Languages/Backend: Java (Java Spring Boot 1.5 Spring Tool Suite 4.4.12 Spring Framework 4.3.24 JDK 8 Apache Tomcat) Python node js any mobile app development language (iOS Swift 4.0 Kotlin)

  • Programming and Framework Client: HTML5 Javascript Flutter Framework (or any other mobile framework) JQuery Angular JS ReactJS AngularJS React Bootstrap React PDF Crypto JS SCSS

  • Enterprise Integration: Design patterns for enterprise integration SOA SOAP/REST Microservices Web portal API (REST APIs)

  • Middleware: Enbeddded OS RTOS Apache Tomcat Windows Server Linux etc.

  • Development and Continuous Integration: Eclipse SVN Git JIRA Fisheye Sonar Clover etc.

  • Database: Oracle Mysql

  • Unit Testing: Junits

• Experience executing projects in healthcare regulated environment.

• Exposure to Dev Ops tools and trends

• Exposure to software subsystem verification

• Experience driving Agile / Lean Software development methodologies in team.

• Deep understanding of Software development and product development processes.

• Strong Leadership and Communication skills.

• Ability to build & sustain relationship with various stakeholders

• Ability to handle competing priorities and maintain high energy and drive team engagement

• Experience building strong teams and creating a culture of innovation and high-quality product engineering within the team.

• Ability to mentor team members and support career development.

• Exposure to Big data & analytics and related technologies

• DICOM interoperability HL7 and healthcare standards.

• Sharp Business & Financial acumen.

• Experience with SAFe methodology.

• PMP certification is a plus.

• AWS certification is a plus.

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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