Principal Software Engineer

Role Title : Principal Software Engineer

Location : Hyderabad

Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) is the global pharmaceutical research organization of Novartis. With approximately 6,000 scientists and physicians around the world, our research is focused on discovering innovative new drugs that will change the practice of medicine. We have an open and entrepreneurial culture, encouraging collaboration to make effective therapies.

At NIBR, our mission is to discover innovative medicines that treat disease and human health. To do that, our scientists need cutting-edge, state-of-the-art computing systems.

With NIBR Informatics (NX), NIBR is making a strategic investment into informatics capabilities and is positioning itself to deliver the systems and services that are critical to the future of drug discovery.

About the Role :

As a key member of the Software Engineering team within NIBR’s 400-people strong Informatics organization (NX), you will be responsible for developing next generation software tools that optimize the acquisition, storage, integration, mining, analysis, visualization, and interpretation of chemical, biological, clinical and operational data.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop state-of-the-art software tools and methodologies to support the discovery process across the entire design-make-test-analyze cycle
• Play a key role in the design and development of tools and technologies for integrating, processing, analyzing and visualizing data at scale
• Operate as part of a cross-functional product team to translate business needs into powerful, functional and beautiful products
• Participate in the full development cycle from product inception, research and prototyping to production release
• Embrace a bias-to-action mindset, agile development principles, and industry standard software development best practices
• Balance strong technical and thought leadership with a learning and listening mindset.
• Embody and integrate software development best practices into your everyday work and inspire others within the engineering community to emulate these practices