Software Engineer II - Veeva Quality

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BMS Hyderabad is an integrated global hub where our work is focused on helping patients prevail over serious diseases by building sustainable and innovative solutions. This important science, technology, and innovation center will support a range of technology and drug development activities that will help us usher in the next wave of innovation.

The primary focus of this role is the delivery of the Veeva Quality portfolio. This position is responsible for the planning and execution of assigned projects supporting Quality functions, reporting to the Veeva Platform community lead in India center. This role will oversee/work in matrix setup with approximately 6+ FTE’s (Veeva developers and testers) and will have accountability to drive both implementation and operations of Veeva Quality Capabilities working with internal teams, contractors and Veeva product team.

Desired Candidate Characteristics: 

• Have a strong commitment to a career in technology with a passion for healthcare 

• Ability to understand the needs of the business and commitment to deliver the best user experience and adoption 

• Able to collaborate across multiple teams  

• Demonstrated leadership experience

• Excellent communication skills 

• Innovative and inquisitive nature to ask questions, offer bold ideas and challenge the status quo 

• Agility to learn new tools and processes

• Veeva White Belt certification

• 5+ years' experience with validated system Computer System Validation (CSV)

• 3+ years Quality Vault experience

• Experience with GMP, Quality Management System and Quality Docs

Key Responsibilities:

• Owns end-to-end accountability for managing technology assets, ensuring they are reliable, accessible, and secure

• Hire, Manage and mentor group of Veeva Developers in Quality domain in India center

• Leads operational activities such as maintenance and break-fix releases, security assessments, regulatory risk assessments, incident response, etc.

• Manages the build, run of technology assets, and ensures timely delivery of releases (Veeva Vault General Releases, Operational Releases, and Project Releases)

• Collaborates closely with the Veeva Drug Development & Quality Cloud team to obtain a working knowledge of the Veeva Vault platform and the various domain-specific Vaults

• Partners with IT Business Partners and Business Subject Matter Experts to define, plan for, prioritize, deliver, and support the systems and ensure maximum value is achieved

• Ability to understand, prioritize, and communicate IT needs to our business colleagues and stakeholders

• Designs technical solutions to satisfy business requirements

• Fulfills all approved, technology asset-specific business needs

• Obtain/maintain a Veeva Associate Administrator Level certification

Qualifications & Experience

• Requires thorough knowledge of the principles and concepts of a discipline and developed knowledge of other related disciplines, typically gained through a university degree and 5-7 years of experience.

• Responsible for leading a small team (results/outcomes, goal setting, input into performance management and coaching). Actively participates in troubleshooting of routine problems.

• Makes decisions that impact own team and other groups/teams. May represent team or function on program or project teams.

• People manager with experience working in matrix setup and responsibility for Individual contributor positions

• Responsible fo