Open-Source Technology Lead

At Bristol Myers Squibb our employees often ask Who are you working fora question that fuels collaboration accountability and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover develop and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work opportunities for growth and a supportive environment that values inclusion wellbeing flexibility and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients and the careers of those who do it.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own container management for open source multilingual and data-quality tooling building hardening and maintaining Docker/Kubernetes images and deployment pipelines used by BI&T and Data and Quantitative Sciences (DQS) teams.
• Design and operate container orchestration and registry strategy (build scan sign version and promote images) to ensure secure reproducible environments for open source components.
• Lead open source package management across the BI&T and DQS technology stack evaluating onboarding versioning and retiring R and Python packages/libraries in a controlled auditable manner.
• Establish and maintain internal package repositories/mirrors (e.g. CRAN/Posit Package Manager PyPI mirrors Artifactory/Nexus) to manage dependencies licensing and version drift at scale.
• Drive open source compliance license scanning vulnerability management SBOM generation and policy enforcement partnering with Legal IT Security and Open Source Governance stakeholders.
• Define and enforce open source intake approval and risk-assessment processes so new packages and containers meet BMS security licensing and quality standards before adoption.
• Apply deep technical expertise in R and Python to design build and optimize production-quality code libraries and tooling supporting multilingual data processing validation and quality-control workflows.
• Contribute code documentation and improvements upstream to relevant open source projects building BMSs presence within the open source ecosystem.
• Partner directly with DQS engineering and data teams to embed containerized compliant open source tooling into multilingual data quality pipelines and automation.
• Track the open source landscape for emerging multilingual NLP container and package-management technologies and recommend adoption where it advances DQS priorities.
• Represent BMS within Pharmaverse PHUSE and other relevant open source life sciences communities engaging with working groups contributing to community initiatives and bringing external best practices back into DQS.
• Mentor engineers and analysts on container best practices open source package management and compliance-by-design principles.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computational Linguistics or a related field.
• 5 years of hands-on software engineering experience including direct work with open source technologies and communities.
• Requires deep hands-on technical expertise in both R and Python including package/library development and dependency management in each.
• Strong demonstrated experience with container management Docker Kubernetes image build/scan/sign pipelines and container registries in production environments.
• Proven experience with open source package management tooling and workflows (e.g. CRAN/Posit Package Manager PyPI/conda/pip Artifactory Nexus JFrog).
• Solid working knowledge of open source compliance practices license management (e.g. GPL MIT Apache) vulnerability/SBOM scanning and governance frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience with multilingual/NLP technologies localization tooling or text-processing frameworks (e.g. spaCy Hugging Face ICU Apache OpenNLP) is a plus.
• Knowledge of Pharmaverse and an active presence in PHUSE or other open source life sciences communities is a plus.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) supporting containerized and open source workloads.
• Solid understanding of data quality data governance and data management concepts.
• Strong communication collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in fast-paced Agile environments.
• Prior exposure to Life Sciences Research & Development is a plus.
• Active contributor or maintainer on recognized open source projects is a plus.

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The starting pay range(s) listed above is for full-time employees (FTE). You may also be eligible for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities. We determine starting pay thoughtfully carefully considering the nature of the role required skills work location schedule and the knowledge and experience you bring. Final compensation is guided by pay equity principles and applicable employment laws. Compensation programs are reviewed on an ongoing basis and may be adjusted over time to reflect evolving market factors and individual team or Company performance.

Benefits:

Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect you may be eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefit plans including wellbeing support retirement and financial protection benefits and insurance offerings (medical dental vision life and disability).

U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off (FTO) which provides paid time off without a set accrual limit subject to manager approval along with 11 paid company holidays each year.

Non-exempt employees RayzeBio employees and employees located in Puerto Rico receive 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires (subject to manager approval) 11 paid company holidays and 3 optional holidays.

Depending on eligibility employees may also have access to additional time-off benefits including paid sick leave up to two paid volunteer days per year summer hours flexibility and leaves of absence for medical personal parental caregiver bereavement or military needs. Eligible employees also enjoy an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Years Day.

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