Principal Software Engineer

Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

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This is a high-performance data analytics software development team that will help us bring together the data at BMS in a way that has not been seen before.  We will be building systems and platforms that will help us not only answer the hard questions at BMS but also allow us to answer the questions we did not know we had.

Position Responsibilities

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to build functional and efficient server-side applications. Principal Software Engineer responsibilities include participating in all phases of the software development lifecycle and coaching junior developers. If you’re a seasoned developer with a love for back-end technologies, we would like to meet you.

Your ultimate goal is to create high-quality products that meet customer needs.

Please be advised that this role is also a hands-on development position where the proper candidate will be involved with architecting, implementing, deploying, and supporting custom internally developed software.

• Help design and implement functional requirements
• Build efficient back-end features in Python
• Integrate front-end components into applications
• Manage testing and bug fixes
• Prepare technical documentation
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design into the code
• Coach junior team members
• Implement software enhancements and suggest improvements

Provide technical domain leadership:

• Develops the Domain Model:  Works with business users as well enterprise technology members to architect, implement and own the Domain Driven model capable of modeling all pharmaceutical data sources internal/external to BMS.
• Owns the IT strategy: Drives the development of realistic and actionable multi-year strategic digital capability roadmaps, informed and prioritized by business and IT in an enterprise context. Prioritizes the portfolio appropriately and is accountable for the overall portfolio budget management.
• Develops compelling business cases: Leads the prioritization and development of strong and clear business cases for digital capability investments in support of the roadmap and aligned with the platform strategy. Defines, measures, & achieves business outcomes for highest value (at the lowest cost) digital capabilities. 
• Brings an external view: Actively maintains awareness of external drivers in the business domain and relevant technology trends, and brings new ideas.
• Knows what value looks like: Understands where BMS should be competitively differentiated through technology, translates business needs into specific business requirements, sees realistic opportunities for IT to add more value, and balances this with a pragmatic understanding of “fitness for purpose”.

Provide technical and strategic leadership:

• Builds high performance applications and platforms: Knows how to architect, implement, and deliver high performance applications as well as CI/CD systems to ensure the consistency of changes to the system.
• Builds strong partnerships with senior leaders: Is viewed by senior business leaders as an effective partner who plans and delivers digital capabilities, safeguards their digital assets and supports their strategic goals.  
• Recognized as a thought leader and trusted advisor: