Senior Specialist, full stack, Digital Reg Docs Tech Lead
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About the role
Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, 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 Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's IT operating model, Tech Centres 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 Centre 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 leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres. Role Overview Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help R&D global users to be more productive and enable innovation. A Sr. Software Engineer will redefine the "art of the possible" and unleash the potential of the modern technical stack by developing and testing software solutions and integrating them with our company's R&D enterprise applications. As a Senior Software Engineer , you will play a critical role in enabling our company 's digital initiative. This position involves designing, developing and sustaining scalable, secure, and high-performing applications, integrating modern technologies, and ensuring operational readiness for global regulatory processes. The successful candidate will also perform product discovery and define the end-to-end conceptual and technical design. We expect you to show technical leadership, deep technical expertise, and accountability, and use your skills to mentor and develop the junior team members. What will you do in this role Strategic Contribution Develop a good understanding of our company's biopharmaceutical R&D business processes, systems, and data, focusing on clinical, regulatory & pharmacovigilance business processes. Collaborate with cross-functional value teams, including business technology partners, product managers, data scientists, and software engineers, to understand data & system requirements. Be a role model by creating a culture of curiosity, learning, building, and experimentation. Conduct ongoing market research and technology assessments to identify emerging industry trends and help align these with the enterprise roadmap. Ensure that industry-accepted system architecture principles, standards, guidelines, and concepts are integrated with those of allied domains, and coordinated roll-out and adoption strategies are in place. Develops a library of deployable and documented design patterns and reference architectures. Frontend Development Develop and maintain modern, responsive, and user-friendly web applications using React.js. Implement reusable, modular components ensuring high performance and scalability. Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate wireframes into interactive interfaces. Optimize applications for speed and scalability. Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code. Backend Development Design and implement RESTful APIs to power frontend applications. / Develop and maintain backend services, databases, and infrastructure. Ensure data security and integrity using best practices for secure coding. Collaborate with DevOps to deploy applications and maintain production environments. Collaboration & Agile Development Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements. Participate in Agile cycles (Scrum/Kanban): sprint planning, stand-ups, code reviews, and retrospectives. Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize applications across the stack. Testing & Quality Assurance Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests. Ensure high test coverage and prevent regressions. Continuous Learning & Improvement Stay updated with trends in React, Node.js, full-stack engineering, and AI technologies. Con