Technical Team Lead for Model Lifecycle Management Platform

Job Description

We aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. Were at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. As a Technical Team Lead for Model Lifecycle Management Platform (MLMP) you will play a crucial role in guiding a team of Full Stack Developers/Engineers to deliver and maintain business-critical GxP systems that support modeling simulation and data science workflows across Research & Development. Join our company and contribute to our mission of using the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team in developing enterprise-scale Java/Python applications integrated with AWS cloud infrastructure and Oracle databases.

• Partner closely with Product Managers to shape product vision prioritize features manage technical debt and ensure successful release delivery.

• Maintain the highest standards of code quality system reliability and regulatory compliance.

• Contribute 70% hands-on technical expertise in the development and maintenance of applications.

• Provide 30% leadership/management responsibilities including mentoring engineers conducting code reviews making architectural decisions and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related technical field.

• Proven experience in leading a team of Full Stack Developers/Engineers.

• Strong hands-on technical expertise in Java/Python applications.

• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and Oracle databases.

• Ability to maintain high standards of code quality system reliability and regulatory compliance.

• Excellent leadership and management skills including mentoring and conducting code reviews.

• 8 years of professional software development experience with significant focus on backend systems (Java and/or Python).

• 3 years in technical leadership roles including team lead tech lead or engineering manager positions.

• Strong track record delivering enterprise-scale applications in regulated or mission-critical environments.

• Demonstrated experience with full software development lifecycle in Agile/Scrum environments.

Preferred

• Experience in developing and maintaining GxP systems.

• Familiarity with modeling simulation and data science workflows.

• Strong partnership skills with Product Managers to shape product vision and prioritize features.

Core Technical Competencies

Backend Development (Expert Level Required)

• Java Development: 6 years with Java 8/11/17 strong OOP principles design patterns and modern Java features.

• Spring Ecosystem: Expert-level Spring Boot Spring Data JPA Spring Security Spring Cloud for microservices.

• Hibernate/JPA: Advanced ORM concepts entity mapping caching strategies query optimization transaction management.

• Python Programming: 4 years with Python 3.x experience with Flask/FastAPI/Django for API development.

• Python Data/ML Libraries: Proficiency with Pandas NumPy and integration with ML platforms (Databricks MLflow).

Database & Data Management (Expert Level Required)

• Oracle Database: 5 years including database design normalization indexing partitioning and performance tuning.

• SQL Mastery: Advanced SQL with complex joins subqueries CTEs window functions and query optimization.

• PL/SQL Development: 3 years writing stored procedures functions packages triggers and performance optimization.

• Database Administration: Experience with backup/recovery capacity planning and Oracle RDS management.

• Data Modeling: Ability to design scalable database schemas for complex business domains.

AWS Cloud Infrastructure (Advanced Level Required)

• Compute & Storage: EC2 instance management S3 bucket policies EBS volumes Auto Scaling.

• Database Services: Oracle RDS configuration monitoring backup strategies parameter tuning.

• Security Services: Secrets Manager KMS encryption IAM policies security groups.

• Messaging & Integration: SNS notifications SQS queue management EventBridge.

• Monitoring & Operations: CloudWatch dashboards/alarms CloudTrail AWS Config.

• HPC Integration: Experience with compute clusters job scheduling AWS Batch or on-premises HPC.

DevOps & CI/CD (Advanced Level Required)

• GitHub Actions: Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Java (Maven/Gradle) and Python applications.

• Containerization: Docker for Java Spring Boot and Python services Docker Compose for local development.

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform CloudFormation or similar tools for AWS resource management.

• Release Management: Experience with blue-green deployments canary releases and rollback strategies.

• Monitoring & Observability: Application logging distributed tracing metrics collection and alerting.

Frontend Development (Intermediate Level Required)

• : Component development state management (hooks Context API) modern JavaScript (ES6).

• Web Technologies: HTML5 CSS3 responsive design principles.

• API Integration: Connecting React frontends to Java/Python backend services.

• Nice to Have: Redux TypeScript Material-UI or similar frameworks.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern
• Competitive salary & incentive pay
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system and referral scheme
• 5 weeks annual leave5sick days15days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities12weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card
• Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank Foodora and discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage showers refreshments massage chairs library music corner

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