Principal Software Engineer

REPORTING TO: Senior Manager

OVERALL OBJECTIVES Eurofins is currently accelerating the deployment of standard processes across its Laboratories. Eurofins has initiated several group programs. One of them is the eLIMS First Generation Standard program. One of its key projects is to create an Integration platform for the main Laboratory Information Management System in Eurofins (eLIMS). This integration platform will enable to integrate eLIMS (data centric application) with other corporate applications (CRM, ComLIMS, EOL, AX), with external applications (B2B with Customers) and with other eLIMS (Sub Contracting Protocal between Eurofins Labs). The transportation of messages will be undertaken by the Messaging bus (called ERMS). The routing and the transformation of messages produced/consumed by/from eLIMS will be made by several intelligent connectors.

The candidate is expected to:

• Deliver high quality IT software by oneself and together with the PSL team (including design, code, tests, documentation);
• Promote high quality engineering of the target solutions;
• Embrace Agile practices;
• Use sound software engineering practices and state-of-art development methodologies - so-called Agile - so as to ensure superior quality.
• Create and maintain technical and operational documentation that describes program code, logic, changes, and corrections for assigned functions.
• Develop working relationships within the wider Eurofins IT community and with select Eurofins user groups.

The Role: The position shall manage the group of developers technically in Bangalore, to develop one or more high quality PSL products (Microsoft based tech stack) . Product is developed in coordination with the India & US Team.

Responsibilities : The role has ultimate responsibility for the assigned project(s) and manages all aspects of delivery including definition, planning, monitoring, customer satisfaction and others aspects of an agile product development. This role is more of a hands-on Development lead who will have the total accountability and responsibility for delivering with highest quality (minimum defect leakage and density) and within the said cost/time.

• Some of the responsibilities are listed below; however these are not the exhaustive set of responsibilities.
• Deliver high quality shippable product as per the scope of the program. Should ensure that the quality is measured, monitored and improved with every release.
• Manage team of Developers technically, and ensure that all best practices of software engineering is implemented.
• Oversee planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other agile project related meetings.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed, and provide timely feedback.
• Report (or contribute in preparing the status report) to Sr. management
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer.
• Interact in a constructive manner with Business Analysts in order to:
  • Estimate the complexity and the workload;
  • Choose the most appropriate technical solution to meet the user requirements;
  • Reach the optimal requirement artifact that will lead to a working software solution.
• Interact in a constructive manner with other IT teams.
• Master and apply team technologies and processes, and take active part in creating Eurofins and team success.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

Experience:

• Overall 8-10 years in experience in IT Application/Software Development field.
• Good and hands-on knowledge of Agile adoption is mandatory.
• Highly assertive and ability to drive the onsite teams to seek information or clarification.
• Self-Managed and highly independent.
• Healthcare or life science domain will be highly preferred.

Technology skills:

• Strong and proven background in Information Technology.
• Strong working knowledge of . NET, C#, . NET Core , MVC, Web Services, WCF Rest and Web API
• Working knowledge of Angular, JavaScript, HTML 5 and CSS 3, Bootstrap technologies
• Working knowledge of MS SQL Databases
• Experience with usage of TFS/Azure DevOps
• Strong experience in designing and working with n-tier architectures
• Working knowledge of ESB or Message Queuing (MSMQ).
• Should have working knowledge on Code review that includes, raising code review, resolve comment reviews, Closing code reviews.
• Microservices is an added advantage.

Methodology skills

• AGILE, TDD, UML

Other skills:

• Prior experience in industrial settings, and especially with Laboratory processes, is a plus.

Personal Skills:

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills. Fluent in English and the working country language
• Scrum values : Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, Courage
• Ability to work in a complex international environment
• Experience in Agile methodologies would be a plus.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL CRITERIA:

• Coverage of functional requirements
• Timely delivery of expected work products.
• Quality of the design, code and documentation of her/his direct contributions and of contributions from the Software Developers working with her/him.
• Team spirit to contribute to the sprints success