What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Principal Software Engineer, Quantitative Pharmacology position at Bristol-Myers Squibb?
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Summary:As a member of the Quantitative Pharmacology (QP) product team, you will be responsible for developing the Pharmacometrics product suite. This product supports scientists who work on various pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling methods. In this role, you will collaborate with innovative and diverse product team members to develop software solutions by understanding the information needs of the Pharmacometrics scientists.
This team will focus on integrating and supporting applications/tools for Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, using PAAS/SAAS platforms such as Metworx, Pumas and other Pharmacometrics applications that are used to perform statistical analysis, modeling, and simulation for therapeutic use of drugs in clinical practice. These include NONMEM, Pirana, PsN, Monolix, Matlab, R/R-Studio, SAS, JupyterHub, and in-house developed scripts and tools.
- You will be working under the direction of the Product Owner, Quantitative Pharmacology.
- You will be working as a part of the development team responsible for the overall technical deliverables of the various tools/applications/platforms used within Quantitative Pharmacology.
- You will work on enhancement requests within release schedules, interim workaround, application life-cycle management and assist with new product evaluations and deployments.
- You will work with other internal IT (LDAP, AWS, Info Security, ITQM/ITQA, Scientific Computing Services, and storage teams), and external vendors (Metrum, Simulations Plus, PumasAI/JuliaHub, AWS, and other partners).
- Develops documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code
- Utilize available internal training opportunities
- Collects, analyzes, and summarizes development and service issues
- Strong software development skills to enable statistical analysis and PK/PD modeling and simulation tools for the Pharmacometrics scientific community.
- Working knowledge of Unix/Linux Desktop virtual machines, HPC grid (SGE, Slurm)
- Experience developing and managing AWS environments, including Parallel Cluster, Kubernetes, Multiverse.
- Well versed with Agile Development methodologies
- Strong documentation, and presentation skills
- Self-motivated and a team player
- 3 - 5 years' experience as an applications developer in private, public, government or military environments - (large and small projects)
- 3 years' experience configuring and developing software leveraging modeling and simulation tools such as R, NONMEM, Monolix, Python, PsN, Pirana, SAS, JupyterHub .
- 2-3 years' experience working in a Linux environment
- 1-2 years' experience working with validated systems
- Good working experience building and enhancing custom shell and python scripts
- Experience with version control (SVN, GitHub)
- Familiarity with R package management strategies
- Integration experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Software development or equivalent experience
- Understand all aspects of software development lifecycle
- Understand various SDLC methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc.)
- Familiarity with R/RStudio/RShiny
- Working System Administration knowledge for Linux
- NFS v4 File Systems, Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Shell scripting
- Transferring functional to technical requirements
- Proficient in MS Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Familiar with various IT and PM tools - JIRA, RTC etc.
- Agile methodologies
- ITIL certified
- Proficiency in one or more of the following areas: UI/UX Design and Development, Cloud (AWS/Azure), work with SaaS / PaaS products
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