Software Application Architect

It is not every day that you can say the software you helped develop will save hundreds of thousands of lives per year, but at bioMérieux, we put innovation to work creating life-saving diagnostic devices.

Description:

As an Application Architect, you will identify and coordinate architectural improvements for modernizing the VITEK 2 medical device software found in most hospital laboratories to determine the best antibiotics to treat millions of infected patients each year. Originally developed as part of the Spacelab program and updated in the early 2000s, the system is being updated again to provide treatment recommendations for the next 20 years.

• Realize your vision by working with and mentoring lead developers to ensure all software components are high-quality and cleanly coded. Assist developers to solve particularly challenging development problems. Create prototype solutions to examine options and advise the development team.
• Guide developers on applying agile principles and XP practices such as test/behavior-driven development, story grooming and continuous improvement via retrospectives. Participate in pair-programming.
• Collaborate with leads from other disciplines (firmware, microbiology, biomathematics…) to define and manage interfaces between the software and those groups. 
• Advise on balancing customer needs, technical complexity, and the long-term vision of system capabilities.
• Sustain the ongoing effort to migrate a monolithic architecture into independent deployable components.

Minimum Qualifications

BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or related scientific discipline, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.

10 or more years of experience of Java and web development.

Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

Expert

• Agile development practices (test-driven development, pair programming, refactoring)
• Java and common open-source frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, JUnit, other)
• OO analysis and design experience including Design Patterns
• Service-based or Microservice architecture and REST concepts
• Automated unit and acceptance testing

Proficient

• Relational database design and application
• Servlet containers (Tomcat, Jetty, other) and basic HTTP server configuration
• Build and continuous integration systems (Jenkins, Gradle, other)

Preferred Qualifications

Exposed

• Networking and security concepts (certificates, Windows domains, LDAP, other)
• Typescript or JavaScript and a front-end framework (Angular, React, other)
• Automated installation/deployment processes (Ansible, InnoSetup, Wix, other)
• Application cybersecurity analysis or remediation
• Other languages such as Kotlin or Go

R&D Systems Development Environment

With engineering centers in St. Louis, Salt Lake City, France, and Italy, our Systems Development team collaborates globally to build products that ensure patient health and consumer safety.

From antibiotic susceptibility testing to organism identification with mass spectrometry, bioMérieux offers challenging opportunities in a science-based domain with a public health focus. If you’re passionate about solving real-world problems, you’ll find a home in our team of expert software developers, engineers, and microbiologists.

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Joining bioMérieux, is choosing to join an innovative company with a long term vision, committed to the service of public health and carried out with a humanistic corporate culture. Our Group offers numerous possibilities: so come and join the 11,200 bioMérieux team members who already identify with these values!

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