Senior Mobile Software Engineer - UTS Evinova

Typical Accountabilities:
• Spending a majority of time designing, building efficient, reusable, and reliable independently and as a team.

• Playing a leadership role on projects and small initiatives.

• Oversee the work of assigned project Software Engineers and be responsible for the quality and velocity of their work.

• Own the delivery of assigned tasks while operating independently but escalating issues and questions in a timely manner.

• Ensures unit testing, release and implementation activities performed are aligned and in adherence with related AZ IT standards and practices.

• Adhere to the established AstraZeneca lifecycle methodology.

• Develops technical expertise and shares knowledge as required with project and IT change implementation teams working on the development, implementation, test, release, maintenance of Information Technology applications.

• Responsible for design, development, configuration, and documentation of software components.

• Create and execute unit test cases and contribute to test automation.

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.

• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes.

• Provide overall high-level estimates for projects and small initiatives.

• Identifies new hardware/software technologies to fit specialised business needs and configurations

• Conducts performance analysis and documents application components

• Leads investigations of problems within existing IT applications and in coordination with other teams carry out support and maintenance of applications, incident/problem identification and resolution using ITIL methods and processes


Typical People Management Responsibility (direct / indirect reports):
• Approximate number of people managed in total (all levels) - 0-5
• Matrix Manager – (projects/dotted line)

What is the global remit? (how many countries will the role operate in?):
• 2 or 3 countries at a minimum of 40% of time

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
• Essential: Work experience in modern software development languages and patterns; Higher education qualification in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, comparable program, or relevant work experience; Experience in Web or Mobile Application Development; Prior software development experience including personal projects
• Desirable: Experience of working within a quality and compliance environment and application of policies, procedures and guidelines; Experience building microservices; Experience implementing a microservices architecture

Skills and Capabilities:
• Essential: Strong ability and willingness to learn new technical skills and platforms; Demonstrate good communication skills and facilitation skills with the ability to work with others across remote geographies to achieve objectives; Strong problem-solving skills; Agile Engineering Practices; Prior software development experience using modern languages such as Java, Python and JavaScript; Experience setting up and deploying to platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Heroku; Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases; Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application; Ability to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Desirable: Good commercial awareness and understanding of the external market; Demonstrate initiative, strong customer orientation, and cross-cultural working

Key Relationship to reach solutions:
• Internal (to AZ or team): Project Management; Information Architecture; Business Analyst; Testing; Service Introduction and Service Delivery
• External (to AZ): Third Party Suppliers / External Consultants

Date Posted

Closing Date

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.