We're on a mission to change the future of
clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the
biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world
but to do this, we need people like you.

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

YOURSELF

• Starting at 14 days holiday per year, rising to 22 days with increased service. In addition to public holidays

• Life Events, Service Awards, Company Outings

HEALTH

• Medical plan

• Annual medical check

WEALTH

• Social security and public housing fund

• Supplementary Housing Allowance

• Life assurance

• Critical illness cover

• Investigates corporate data requirements, and applies data analysis, design, modelling, and quality assurance techniques, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Provides advice and guidance to database designers and others using the data structures and associated components.

• Plans and leads the identification and assessment of new and emerging technologies.
• Evaluates the potential impacts, threats and opportunities.
• Obtains organisational commitment to technology roadmaps.
• Communicates with relevant stakeholders.
• Creates technology roadmaps which align organisational plans with emerging technology solutions.
• Develops organisational guidelines for monitoring emerging technologies.
• Collaborates with internal and external parties to facilitate intelligence gathering.

• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Identify and evaluate alternative design options and trade-offs.
• Creates multiple design views allows to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Model, simulate or prototype the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders.
• Produce detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems.
• Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.

• Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software and facilities.
• Assesses proposed changes to object / data structures, in order to evaluate alternative solutions.
• Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability.
• Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.

• Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate software design methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches.
• Specifies and designs large or complex software components.
• Undertakes impact analysis on major design options, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
• Specifies prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision making.
• Evaluates the quality of others' systems designs to ensure adherence to standards and identifies corrective action, if needed.
• Ensures that the system design balances functional, service quality, security and systems management requirements.
• Contributes to development of organisational software design and architecture policies and standards.

• Develops organisational policies, standards, guidelines and quality targets for software construction.
• Plans and leads software construction activities for strategic, large and complex development projects.
• Develops new methods and organisational capabilities and drives adoption of and adherence to policies and standards.

• Contributes to the collection of evidence and the conduct of formal audits, reviews or compliance of activities, processes, data, products or services.
• Examines records for evidence that appropriate testing and other quality control activities have taken place and determines compliance with organisational directives, standards and procedures.
• Identifies non-compliances, non-conformances and abnormal occurrences.

• Prioritises areas for quality improvement by considering the strategy, wider business objectives and results from internal and external audits.
• Initiates the application of appropriate quality management techniques in these areas.
• Initiates improvements to processes by changing approaches and working practices, typically using recognised models.
• Achieves and maintains compliance against national and international standards, as appropriate.
• Identifies and plans systematic corrective action to reduce errors and improve the quality of the systems and services, by examination of the root causes of problems.

• Manages individuals and groups.
• Allocates responsibilities and/or packages of work, including supervisory responsibilities.
• Delegates responsibilities as appropriate.
• Sets performance targets, and monitors progress against agreed quality and performance criteria.
• Provides effective feedback, throughout the performance management cycle, to ensure optimum performance.
• Proactively works to ensure effective working relationships within the team and with those whom the team interacts with.
• Provides support and guidance as required, in line with individuals' abilities.
• Advises individuals on career paths and encourages pro-active development of skills and capabilities and provides mentoring to support professional development.
• Participates, as appropriate, in formal processes such as compensation negotiations and disciplinary procedures.
• Ensure all people related KPI's and activities are consistently and fully achieved.
• Determines, delegate and allocate management responsibilities and work across teams.
• Sets performance objectives, coaching, supporting and monitors progress against agreed quality and performance criteria and local legislations/policies.
• Monitoring and address progress accordingly.
• Initiates, develops and monitors effective performance management processes.
• Mentors and influences individuals in consideration of their career opportunities and contribution to the organisation.
• Leads on formal processes such as compensation negotiations and disciplinary procedures.

• Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
• Identifies, evaluates and recommends options, implementing if required.
• Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements.
• Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited

• Contribute to organisational policies, standards, guidelines measurement. Implements improvements to measures at project, organisational level.
• Selects measures appropriate to the context and organisational objectives.
• Review data collection and storage mechanisms to support measurement.
• Set targets, designs reports and reporting formats.
• Provide advice and guidance for effective use of measures and measurement.

• Contributes to the development of systems architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas, through appropriate trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed design using selected services and products.
• Supports a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards.

• Promotes the application of generic and specific body knowledge in own organisation.
• Developed own business knowledge of the activities and practices of own organisation and those of suppliers, partners competitors.
• generic and specific.
• Actively seeks out new knowledge for own personal development and the mentoring or coaching of others.
• Develops a wider breadth of knowledge across the industry or business.
• Applies knowledge to help to define the standards on which others will apply.

• Influences policy and strategy formation.
• Initiates influential relationships with internal and external customers, suppliers and partners at senior management level, including industry leaders.
• Makes decisions which impact the work of employing organisations, achievement of organisational objectives and financial performance
• Ensures users' needs are met consistently through each works stage.

• Has a broad business understanding of own specialism.
• Performance high complex work activities covering technical, financial and quality aspects.
• Contributes to the implementation of policy and strategy.
• Creatively applies a wide range of technical and / or management principles
• Work with all stakeholders to understand and address complex problems to a desired outcome.

• Works under broad direction.
• Is fully responsible for meeting allocated technical and / or project/ supervisory objectives.
• Establishes milestones and has a significant role in the assignment of tasks and / or responsibilities.

• Demonstrate leadership and role models behaviours.
• Communicates effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Understands and communicates industry developments and the role and impact of technology in the employing organisation.
• Absorbs complex information and turns these in to clear consider and tangible actions.
• Promotes compliance with relevant legislation and the need for services, products and working practices to provide equal access equal opportunity to people with diverse abilities.
• Takes initiative to keep both own and colleague's skills up to date.
• Manages and mitigates risk.
• Takes a leading role in promoting security throughout own area and collectively in the organisation.

• Carryout any other reasonable duties as requested.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning
• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail
• Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment
• Ability to effectively delegate work to team members
• Demonstratable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks
• Shows initiative and self-confidence, is adaptable and is able to cope with changing and evolving priorities
• Ability to identify and implement process improvements
• Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate
• A self-starter and able to work under own initiative
• Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect technology within the Life sciences domain
• Ability to operate collaboratively within a global team environment
• Takes ownership and responsibility
• Natural coach/mentor who leads by example with an approachable demeanor and visible leader skills
• Ability to inspire staff to develop to the best of their competencies
• Ability to demonstrate leadership competencies, like global execution, personal ownership, change leadership, strategic thinking, building partnerships, Customer Focused Leadership, talent development, influencing and leading teams, interpersonal awareness

• Proven relevant experience in systems integration and implementation, or software development, or a related discipline
• Proven ability to communicate to all Stakeholders up to C-Level
• Experience with Line Management and conflict resolution
• Solid professional experience in the same or very similar role
• Proven line management and leadership management. Experience of indirect line management desirable

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience
• English: Fluent