Engineering Specialist, R&D SW

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Provides enterprise-level technical leadership for cloud shared services and related connected-care ecosystems. Collaborates with engineering product and business leaders to shape long-term architectural strategy establish technical standards and guide the evolution of secure cloud-native services that support multiple products regions and business domains.

Serves as a senior technical leader for distributed systems GraphQL and API architecture multi-region cloud strategy service interoperability scalability security resiliency observability SOC 2 readiness and operational excellence. Partners closely with executive leadership product management cybersecurity quality regulatory operations and engineering teams to align technology investments architectural decisions and platform capabilities with business objectives and sustained growth.

What Youll Do

• Define and drive the long-term architecture vision technical roadmap governance standards and cloud-native platform strategy for CSA in partnership with engineering and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with architects engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to guide enterprise-wide architectural decisions across products services and engineering organizations.
• Lead the design and governance of scalable service API and integration architectures across GraphQL REST event-driven systems and microservices building alignment around architectural best practices.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to establish and evolve multi-region cloud strategies that support high availability resiliency disaster recovery scalability data residency and operational readiness.
• Champion modernization initiatives across Kubernetes platform engineering Infrastructure as Code automated delivery pipelines event streaming and cloud-native technologies.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity quality regulatory and engineering teams to define and implement security and compliance architecture standards including SOC 2 readiness identity and access management encryption secure software supply chains and healthcare data protection requirements.
• Facilitate architecture governance through reviews standards reference patterns technical decision frameworks and proactive management of architectural risk and technical debt.
• Influence executive stakeholders mentor senior technical leaders and partner across engineering product security quality regulatory audit and operations teams to advance organizational architecture maturity innovation and technical excellence.

What Youll Bring

• 18 years of progressive software engineering experience with deep expertise in enterprise architecture technical leadership cloud-native platforms distributed systems microservices and mission-critical service architectures.
• Proven experience designing and governing scalable API ecosystems including GraphQL REST event-driven architectures schema management federation/composition authorization observability and production operations.
• Strong expertise defining and implementing multi-region cloud strategies including resiliency disaster recovery failover traffic routing replication data residency capacity planning and cost optimization.
• Expert-level proficiency APIs containers Kubernetes event-driven systems and modern cloud engineering and platform modernization practices.
• Deep experience with Azure or other hyperscale cloud environments including networking identity and access management platform operations security and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform OpenTofu or similar).
• Demonstrated expertise in SOC 2 compliance DevSecOps SRE observability API governance secure software supply chains audit readiness and regulated software development practices.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders lead enterprise-wide architecture transformations communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and drive strategic decisions across cross-functional organizations.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or a related field (advanced degree preferred) with experience in healthcare technology medical devices connected-care platforms or other highly regulated industries strongly preferred.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal its discretion Baxter may decide to adjust suspend or discontinue as business needs change.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter we are committed to equitable pay for all employees and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $152000-$209000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location skills and expertise experience and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses. For questions about this our pay philosophy and available benefits please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.

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