Key Accountabilities:

Solution architecture

- Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
- Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs 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 (including security).

System design

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

Programming & Software development

- Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
- Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
- Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.

Software design

- Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns and methodology.
- Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
- Recommends designs which take into account target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems.
- Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
- Leads reviews of others' designs.
- Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software.
- Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods.

Quality Assurance

- 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.

Data modelling & design

- Applies data analysis, design, modelling, and quality assurance techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of business processes, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
- Advises database designers and other application development team members on the details of data structures and associated components.

Emerging Technology

- Supports market monitoring and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate potential impacts threats and opportunities.
- Contributes to reports and technology road mapping and sharing knowledge and insights with of emerging technologies with others.

Quality Management

- Uses appropriate methods and a systematic approach in the development, maintenance, control and distribution of quality and environmental standards.

- Makes technical changes to and controls the updates and distribution of quality standards.
- Distributes new and revised standards.

Consultancy

- 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.

Measurement

- Collect and maintain data for measurement.
- Generate and produce reports, distribute reports.
- Use appropriate measurement tools for routine analysis of data.

Database design

- 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.

Relationship Management
- Implements stakeholder engagement / communications plan.
- Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
- Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.
- Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
- Understands and collaborates on the analysis of user/customer needs and represents this in their work.
- Influences customers, suppliers and partners at account level.
- Engages across all stakeholders to ensure that user needs are being met throughout
- Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.

Business Skills

- Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and nontechnical
- Plans, schedules and monitors work to meet time and quality targets.
- Facilitates collaboration between stakeholders who share common objectives.
- Selects appropriately from applicable standards, methods, tools and applications.
- Fully understands the importance of security to own work and the operation of the organisation.
- Seeks specialist security knowledge or advice when required to support own work or work of immediate colleagues.
- Maintains an awareness of developing practices and their application and takes responsibility for driving own development.

Other

- Carry out any other reasonable duties as requested.

Skills:
- 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 and prioritize workload with attention to detail.
- Shows Initiative and self-confidence, is adaptable and is able to manage changing and evolving priorities.
- Ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.

-Demonstratable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks.

-Ability to plan own work to meet given objectives and processes.
- Proactively participates in skills improvement training.
- Ability to coach and mentor colleagues within the team.

- Ability to handle production support work.

- A self-starter and able to work under own initiative.
- Maintains up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect testing and technology within the Life sciences domain

- Demonstrable ability to challenge work (such as identifying and adding new custom features with improved timelines)

Knowledge and Experience:
- Proven relevant experience in systems integration and implementation, or software development, or a related discipline
- Demonstrated ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders
- Demonstrable experience in the same or very similar role
- Experience working successfully with a matrix organization.

- Experience working in Frameworks.

- A demonstrable strong background in Core Java, J2EE, and the SLDC lifecycle.

- Basic knowledge of Struts 2.0, Spring MVC, and Oracle (PLSQL).

-Basic knowledge of KSVN, Merge tools, and IDE tools like IntelliJ, and Eclipse.

- Knowledge of Apache tomcat Server, Java build tools(Ant or Maven), bug tracking tools (Jira or others).

-Experience working on custom SQL queries.

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

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