Principal Application Developer, PD Systems

About the role

Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking a Principal Application Developer, PD Systems to join our team in New Brunswick, NJ. This role involves assisting in the development, production support, and lifecycle management of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS).

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development, production support, and life cycle management for Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS).
• Partner with business clients, IT Business Partners, and other IT functions to deliver digital capabilities.
• Collaborate with teams to define business requirements, provide project timelines, and develop acceptance criteria for testing.
• Translate development plans into actionable projects, including releases, modifications, and discretionary enhancements to support the application life cycle.
• Conduct releases from design and deployment to production run.
• Coordinate with operations team to deploy applications to various environments.
• Integrate new technologies and methodologies into the development pipeline.
• Focus on the automation of processes and the improvement of system reliability and scalability.
• Ensure that applications comply with all relevant regulations and best practices, while also driving improvements in operational processes and performance monitoring.
• Support the seamless deployment and maintenance of solutions across environments.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Information Systems, Business Analytics, Information Technology, Science or a related field, and five (5) years of related work experience in a Computer Systems Analyst or related occupation.
• In lieu of a bachelor’s degree, seven (7) years of related work experience.
• Five (5) years of experience in the following skills (which may be gained concurrently):
• Developing and testing applications using Java, J2EE, JSP, JDBC, Servlets, EJB, JSON, XML, JMS, Java Mail, DOM/SAX, SOAP Web Services, or RESTful Web Services;
• Implementing applications with frameworks including Spring, Hibernate, AngularJS, React, and Python;
• Leveraging cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform;
• Configuring Continue Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines;
• Relationship database services including Oracle, SQL server and PostgreSQL;
• NoSQL databases including MongoDB, HBase, and Cassandra;
• Utilizing SAS technology and GitHub to develop datasets for advanced analytics and business reporting;
• Applying Agile methodologies and JIRA;
• Scrum and sprint planning;
• Documenting project artifacts including System Requirement Specification (SRS), Functional Specifications (FS), Detailed Design Specifications (DDS), System Traceability Matrix (STM), and User Guides while adhering to quality processes.

Benefits

• Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.
• Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
• Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.

Pay and Schedule

• Annual discretionary bonus.
• Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.