Principal Engineer - Front/Back-End Development, APEX, Azure, CI/CD & AI/Cloud

Principal Engineer - Front/Back-End Development, APEX, Azure, CI/CD & AI/Cloud

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know: Why Syneos Health• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. • We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

Job Summary

The Principal Engineer provide advance level leadership and designs, develops, and delivers clean maintainable solutions based on Big Data applications that fulfill the strategic vision for enterprise while driving business value and innovation. Performs the full deployment lifecycle, using Azure Cloud Technologies, including installation, configuration, initial production deployment, recovery, security and data governance for Data Lake. Evaluates and provides technical solutions to design, develop, and support as required in a lead role for business units wishing to implement a Big Data solution. Refines raw data into actionable insight using visualization and statistics with innovative analytics applicationsand systems. Develops applications that can interact with the data in the most appropriate way, from batch to interactive SQL.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to teams and clients throughout the solution lifecycle. Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to Cloud based Data Lake and Data Mesh environments. Stay current with emerging technologies and trends and recommend best practices.• Design, develop, and implement scalable and secure cloud solutions for Big Data Platforms interfacing with API, file, SQL databases. Architect and optimize data pipelines using distributed cloud computing to ensure that they support high volume / high velocity data streams and are scalable to meet growth expectations• Develop guidelines and plans for performance tuning of a Big Data /NoSQL environment with underlying impact analysis of distributed jobs to enhance data processing, analytics, and machine learning capabilities. Implement a mixed batch/near-real time architecture to analyze, index, and publish data for applications. Develop and implement strategies for data governance, security,and compliance.• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for solution designs, configurations, and best practices. Provide training and support to clients and internal teams on solution architecture. Engage with clients to understand their business needs and deliver tailored cloud solutions. Conduct presentations, demos, and workshops to showcase Data Lake Capabilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

• Experience in Oracle APEX migrating to newer stacks

• Experience utilizing and leveraging modern data and cloud technologies, like Snowflake, SQL Server, Tableau, Power BI, and Azure.

• Strong experience with JavaScript & Node.js. Experience with Sveltekit, React.js, Next.js, Python or React Native desired.• SME in cloud engineering or solution architecture with a focus on Azure and related capabilities. Demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes• Experience with DevOps and best practices for Coding in a distributed Cloud environment. Command of Data Movement, Analysis, Modeling best practices.• Excellent written and verbal communications; Solid written and oral presentation skills• Excellent problem-solving skills, strong communication abilities, and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment. Demonstrated ability to define business use cases and measure / communicate proposed project benefits

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.  

http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.