Job Description
•BasedinHyderabad,joinaglobalhealthcarebiopharmacompanyandbepartofa130- yearlegacyofsuccessbackedbyethicalintegrity,forwardmomentum,andaninspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
•Bepartofanorganizationdrivenbydigitaltechnologyanddata-backedapproachesthat support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
•Driveinnovationandexecutionexcellence.Beapartofateamwithpassionforusingdata, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutionsthatsaveandimprovelives.Anintegralpartofourcompany’sIToperatingmodel,TechCenters are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.
A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leveragethestrengthofourteamtocollaborategloballytooptimizeconnectionsandsharebestpractices across the Tech Centers.
RoleOverview
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Multistack Java Developer to join our team and technically lead a group of talented developers. This role will involve close collaboration with a large team, focusing on enhancing, developing, and maintaining enterprise-grade applications. The ideal candidate will have 8-15 years of strong hands-on experience in hardcore development, expertise in Java,and front-end frameworks like React and Angular, in a continuous release environment. This position also requires proactive leadership, and expertise in managing production outages and troubleshooting.
As a Software Engineer focusing on Java/Angular JS you will design, develop, and maintain software systems. This role involves both creativeandanalyticalskillstosolvecomplexproblemsandcreateefficient,reliablesoftware.Youwilluse your expertise in requirements analysis, programming languages, software development methodologies, and tools to build and deliver software products that meet the needs of businesses, organizations, or end- users. You will work with other engineers, product managers and delivery leads, to design systems, determine functional and non-functional needs and implement solutions accordingly. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.
Whatwillyoudointhisrole
- Design,code,verify,test,document,amendandrefactormoderatelycomplexapplications and software configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams across various regions worldwide.
- Designtestcasesandtestscriptsunderowndirection,mappingbacktopre-determined criteria, recording and reporting test outcomes. Participate in requirement, design and specification reviews. Perform manual and automation testing.
- Elicitrequirementsforsystemsandsoftwarelifecycleworkingpracticesandautomation. Preparedesignoptionsfortheworkingenvironmentofmethods,procedures,techniques, tools, and people. Utilize systems and software life cycle working practices for software components and micro-services. Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcome.
- Workwithinamatrixorganizationalstructure,reportingtoboththefunctionalmanagerand the Product manager.
- Participate in Product planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and Product goals.
- Lead and mentor a team of Java Microservices and front-end developers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
- Stay actively involved in development tasks, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, maintainable code.
- Design and develop scalable systems using Java, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot for backend development.
- Develop rich, responsive user interfaces using React, Angular to deliver seamless user experiences.
- Ensure optimal integration of front-end and back-end components for customer-facing applications
- Develop and consume Microservices, REST/SOAP APIs, and XML web services.
- Utilize tools like Splunk, ELK, and database queries to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues.
- Leverage tools like Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform for automated deployments.
- Work on cloud platforms like AWS, implementing and supporting cloud-based solutions.
- Work on application performance tuning, troubleshooting, and issue remediation.
- Work in compliance with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and best practices
- Management oversight/lead, team management, technical guidance, and process improvements.
- Proactive with changing landscape and drive implementation
Whatshouldyou have
- Bachelor’sdegreeininformationtechnology,ComputerScienceoranyTechnologystream.
- ~ 8-15 years of experience. 5+ years of experience with Java and Java frameworks and libraries (such as Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JEE, JDBC, JMS, JMX), relational databases, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and deployment to application servers.
- Develop and maintain microservices-based applications using Spring Boot.
- Design and implement RESTful APIs for seamless communication between services.
- Experience with enterprise-level databases both SQL and No-SQL such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB etc
- Automated testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, etc.)
- Monitoring and log tools (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Familiarity with AWS Cloud, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.), and automation tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)..
- Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Familiaritywithmodernproductdevelopmentpractices–Agile,Scrum,testdriven development, UX, design thinking.
- Hands-onexperiencewithDevOpspractices(Git,infrastructureascode,observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD).
- Cloud-native,ideallyAWScertified.
- Productandcustomer-centricapproach
- Support Agile development activities for approved stories in Jira.
- Design and implement UI and microservices using Java, Python, Node/Angular JS, Spring Boot framework and MyBatis
- Work on IBM Watson, Charting (HighChart or equivalent libraries), API, XML, JSON, and Database integration (PostgresSQL, Redshift, etc).
- Knowledge of GenAI, LLM, predictive analytics, metrics, and Vector databases
Good to Have Skills:
- Experience with any front-end technologies like React, Angular for building responsive user interfaces.
- Understanding of security best practices and data protection methodologies.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and tools like Jira or Trello.
- Certification of any of public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
- A passionate commitment to learning about business domains and emerging technologies.
Ourtechnologyteamsoperateasbusinesspartners,proposingideasandinnovativesolutionsthatenable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.
Whoweare
Formorethanacentury,wehavebeeninventingforlife,bringingforwardmedicinesand vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
Whatwelookfor
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific geniustoworkincollaborationwithadiversegroupofcolleagueswhopursueandbringhopetocountless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today
Required Skills:
Animal Vaccination, Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design, Design Applications, DevOps, Digital Technology, Digital Transformation, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Requirements Analysis, Social Collaboration, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Spring Framework, System Designs, System Integration, Systems Troubleshooting, Technical Consulting, Test Automation, Testing, Web Development
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01/12/2026
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