Associate Architects

Merck•Saint Louis, MO

3d•$153,500 - $169,900•Hybrid

About The Position

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related field.
Eight (8) years of progressively more responsible work experience as a software engineer or related occupation utilizing Agile and Scrum methodologies throughout the product development lifecycle.
Demonstrated ability utilizing JAVA, J2EE, and design patterns to develop digital platforms or client/server applications in the ecommerce domain gained through eight (8) years of work experience.
Demonstrated ability designing and developing web applications with JAX-RS and RESTFUL webservices gained through six (6) years of work experience.
Demonstrated ability utilizing multiple databases such as Oracle or SQL Server and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra gained through six (6) years of work experience.
Demonstrated ability utilizing Elastic Search, Maven, Dynatrace, and Gitlab gained through six (6) years of work experience.
Demonstrated knowledge of microservices, event-oriented architectures and distributed systems, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines gained through six (6) years of work experience.

Responsibilities

Lead engineering efforts to align product vision to our enterprise strategies, technology roadmap, and digital transformation.
Writing software code to build in-house backend and frontend applications that connect to ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems and internal databases.
Utilizing database management system tools and technologies such as Cassandra, Oracle, and PostgreSQL to manage large, complex databases.
Utilizing system orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Terraform to deploy or modify in-house software applications.
Preparing high-level software design documents and technical specifications and documenting existing processes.
Monitoring API performance and analytics.
Guiding and mentoring agile teams on architecture, design, and integration of business software across multiple product platforms while making sure all application software is built with performance and scalability in mind.