Software Development Technical Lead

Overview

Valeris is a fully integrated life sciences commercialization partner that provides comprehensive solutions that span the entire healthcare value chain. Formed by the merger of PharmaCord and Mercalis, Valeris™ revolutionizes the path from life sciences innovation to real-life impact to build a world in which every patient gets the care they need. Valeris works on behalf of life sciences companies to improve the patient experience so that patients can access and adhere to critical medications.

 

Backed by proven industry expertise, a deep commitment to patient care, the latest technology, and exceptionally talented team members, Valeris provides the data and strategic insights, patient support services and healthcare provider engagement tools to help life sciences companies successfully commercialize new products. Valeris provides commercialization solutions to more than 500 life sciences customers and has provided access and affordability support to millions of patients. The company is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina and Jeffersonville, Indiana. To learn more about Valeris, please visit www.valeris.com

 

 

This position is an advanced level position within the Valeris software engineering organization.  Candidates that are selected for this position must have significant prior experience in a lead software engineering role and exhibit an advanced level of software design and technical skills along with the interpersonal skills required to lead the day-to-day technical direction of the scrum team.  This is a hands-on role where the candidate would be expected to contribute to coding and other delivery tasks.  Candidates must have full-stack development experience, with a stronger emphasis placed on backend systems experience.

Responsibilities

• Technical ownership of approaches and solutions that are built and supported by the scrum team
• Responsible for enforcing code quality, coding practices and architectural standards for the team
• Provides technical consultation to team Product Owner, Engineering Manager, and other business stakeholders
• Works with Product Owner to prioritize and oversee day-to-day technical work
• Assists team in understanding technical requirements and feasibility
• Leads technical design sessions with scrum team
• Mentors junior members on the team and onboards new hires into the code bases and technical stack
• Develops software solutions to satisfy business use-cases and specified requirements per team Product Owner and Manager.
• Learns and implements commercial off-the-shelf or SaaS products into a solution where necessary
• Looks for opportunities to improve and refactor existing codebases
• Able to break down complex requirements into system design, actionable work items, and unit-testable code
• Develops UI mocks, scripts, or other relevant proofs of concepts
• Creates documentation, flowcharts, layouts, and diagrams to solidify understanding and preserve knowledge
• Provides support for existing applications for both issues and enhancements
• Updates and improves existing codebases as needed to provide framework update or dependency upgrades
• Oversees software releases
• Participates in all SCRUM activities
• Participates and provides in-depth code reviews to ensure code quality and best solution approaches
• Assists other members of the SCRUM team to ensure all sprint commitments are met
• Actively works to stay current with the latest trends and technologies in the industry by participating in education opportunities, reading professional publications, and participating in professional organizations.
• On time adherence to training deadlines for all corporate policies and procedures governing access to confidential data
• Ensure all SOPs are followed with consistency

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Associate's degree in a technology-related field of study such as computer science, or relevant work experience, along with 7+ years of professional experience in a senior software engineering role. 
• Prior experience in technical leadership role with responsibility for technical design and delivery
• Prior experience leading technical delivery by offshore teams is a strong plus
• Relevant and demonstratable work experience delivering full-stack solutions:

UI Experience:

• TypeScript/JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS, and a styling/pre-processor framework such as Bootstrap, Tailwind, Materialize, etc.
• Responsive design and advanced knowledge of device-specific concerns
• JavaScript UI framework such as Vue, React, Angular
• Bundling and minification tools

 

Backend Experience:

• SOLID principles and object-o