Hybrid Associate Director, Engineering

at Syneos Health

• Job title: Associate Director, Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Apollo, AWS, GraphQL, JavaScript, Node.js, React, SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hyderabad, India

About the role

• Managing software development team at Syneos Health, leveraging engineering best practices in a Hybrid environment. Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver innovative tech solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage teams of software engineers
• Responsibilities include line management, performance management, and professional development for those employees along with interviewing and onboarding new team members
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices and standards
• Contribute to engineering wiki and document work
• Identify and execute on initiatives to increase code quality and consistency across the engineering organization
• Lead and manage teams who create solutions that leverage social media and mobile platforms
• Drive consensus across technology leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Optimize process and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement of the software development life cycle
• Present findings and recommendations to customers in a clear and concise way to drive appropriate outcomes in support of the team
• Coordinates resources, project schedules and communications for related activities with customers, internal groups and external vendors and service providers
• Builds effective relationships with business staff across the company’s business units to ensure projects to support them are delivered
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned
• Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%)

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) in Information Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field required
• Master’s degree (MS/MA) preferred
• Professional software engineering experience
• Engineering management experience
• Strong system design experience
• Experience with JavaScript, Node.js, and React.js
• Understanding of database and event driven architecture
• Experience working with AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS/Kinesis etc)
• Experience with Apollo GraphQL a plus
• Experience developing low latency, high availability applications.
• Ability to manage developers in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Experience developing in serverless microservice environments.
• Familiarity with Domain Driven Design principles

Benefits

• Career development and progression
• Supportive and engaged line management
• Technical and therapeutic area training
• Peer recognition and total rewards program