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Senior Platform Specialist – Quality and Lab Automation -Raleigh, NC area
Company Description
Company has one of the most exciting pipelines in the Biotech / Pharmaceutical industry. The company has been growing rapidly and with this growth comes a number of exciting opportunities to work with our expanding business areas. One of these opportunities is to work to support the growing needs of the IT Quality organization. The organization is a lean and nimble work environment where people have the latitude to lead coupled with a highly collaborative focus and significant opportunities for career advancement.
Job Description
The Senior Platform Specialist provides technical oversight, develops technical solutions, and delivers high-quality requirements. This Platform Specialist will follow methodologies for systems and project governance, leverage tools & techniques to capture business and functional requirements, and use approved corporate documentation templates for SDLC documentation. Role spans the Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Technical Development applications within the PO&T IT Quality and Lab Automation Systems portfolio.
Major Role Key Activities:
- Resolve application development issues in a timely manner.
- Develop processes, SOP’s, systems to support applications and equipment in a GxP environment.
- Partner with Run organization to ensure existing systems are meeting stability, performance, and capacity requirements.
- Perform platform management duties within assigned responsibilities of the project team.
- Develop new applications or make enhancements according to project needs.
- Ensure Testing Center of Excellence is leveraged appropriately for testing activities to ensure solution quality.
- Evaluates technical options against a strategy and helps deliver the optimal solution for the project.
- Reviews the work of the vendors and rejects work if the quality is not at required level.
- Ensure project deliverables meet business requirements.
Plan & Manage:
- Work with team of internal and external 3rd party technical resources performing analysis, design, configuration, development, testing, and deployment activities for our applications.
- Participates in technical review of business processes with IT System Owners, Business Process Owners and Subject Matter Experts to establish a deep understanding of business requirements.
- Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts, and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.
Build & Test:
- Ownership of development, technical testing, deployment plan, and transition to Run.
- Utilize programming principles, tools, and techniques to write application codes.
- Ensure internal and external 3rd party resources comply with SDLC methodology to ensure the delivery of highly scalable and secure solutions that are optimized for performance.
- Ensures application changes follow documented user and functional requirements, and business process maps when available.
- May author design documentation and perform application development as required.
- Perform informal testing of application development and support formal testing.
- Prepare test cases and strategies for unit testing and integration testing.
Qualifications
Minimum Experience Requirements:
- 4 to 7+ years of experience working with life sciences systems such as LabWare LIMS/ELN, Empower CDS, IDBS ELN, and Crystal Reports.
- Systems validation experience, especially experience that leverages technology as part of the solution.
- Experience working on projects in a collaborative team environment.
- Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting abilities.
Minimum Knowledge Requirements:
- B.S. degree (in science, engineering or computer science/programming), with related business discipline experience.
- Understands the technology offerings applicable to the business when assisting in the design of solutions.
- Has knowledge of and utilizes software lifecycle methodologies, SLDC, Waterfall, Agile, etc.
Additional Information
The Senior Platform Specialist provides technical oversight, develops technical solutions, and delivers high-quality requirements. This Platform Specialist will follow Company's methodologies for systems and project governance, leverage tools & techniques to capture business and functional requirements, and use approved corporate documentation templates for SDLC documentation. Role spans the Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Technical Development applications within the IT Quality and Lab Automation Systems portfolio.
