Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.
Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.
Position Summary
At BMS, digital innovation and Information Technology are central to our vision of transforming patients’ lives through science. To accelerate our ability to serve patients around the world, we must unleash the power of technology. We are committed to being at the forefront of transforming the way medicine is made and delivered by harnessing the power of computer and data science, artificial intelligence, and other technologies to promote scientific discovery, faster decision making, and enhanced patient care.
If you want an exciting and rewarding career that is meaningful, consider joining our diverse team!
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design of digital solutions, in close collaboration with product manager and platform architect, ensuring efficient use of the resources, meeting timelines, project goals and strategic objectives.
- Evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies for automation of common tasks; build of utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways
- Lead efforts to break down monolithic manufacturing systems be re-architected as microservices, and which can be refactored or replaced.
- Foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing by engaging cross-functional teams and leaders across the organization. Building strong communities of practice to break down silos, align on shared goals, and drive cohesion in designing and implementing larger software systems.
- Being able to articulate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate across multiple teams.
- Guide a team of Software engineers, oversee the requirement gathering, technical design and implementation of systems including infrastructure, testing, verification, documentation. Guide teams and individuals through the transition, helping them upskill as they adopt microservices best practices.
- Drive the adoption of Automation and DevOps practices, to optimize scalability, performance, and delivery efficiency.
- Drive the adoption of Automation and DevOps practices, to optimize scalability, performance, and delivery efficiency.
- Leverage cloud, and tools like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines to automated infrastructure provisioning deployment, testing, monitoring, assuring seamless integration and continuous delivery across environments.
Technical Skill Set Experience
- 15+ years of experience in leading full stack or backend engineering, platforms, systems integration, programming/software development, IT infrastructure.
- Proven hands-on experience in software engineering, inclusive of coding, designing, and delivering high-quality and highly reliable solutions, with at lead least 6+ years of relevant experience in technical program management with expertise in Agile Methodologies and Scrum practices.
- Proficient in project management tools – Jira, Service Now.
- Proven experience in transforming monolithic applications into microservices with strong understanding of microservices design patterns and best practices. (eg., decentralized data management, bounded contexts, etc.).
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in API-first architecture and other Integration concepts. Familiarity with API design and management, including REST and GraphQL.
- Proficiency in scripting languages like PowerShell and Terraform. Knowledge of programming languages such as C#, Java, or JavaScript, with exposure to React and Node JS. Candidates should have professional coding experience in at least one of the modern programming languages
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their microservices offerings.
- Understanding of cloud-native application patterns and tools (serverless, managed databases, etc.).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for microservices and deployment automation (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, etc.).
- Knowledge of automation tools and monitoring solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Experience with event-driven architecture and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.).
- Understanding of Microservices and Distributed Systems, Database Management and Data Modeling of handling data consistency in distributed systems, including eventual consistency and CAP theorem.
- Knowledge of Quality principles, computer system validation principles and QA methodologies is desirable.
Experience
- Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, team building, and communication skills to ensure effective collaborations within matrix teams.
- Agile experience (Scrum, Kanban) and knowledge of software engineering best practices (design patterns, testing, code reviews)
- Strong change management skills to handle the complexities of moving from a monolithic system to a distributed architecture.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to quickly gain and apply functional area specific knowledge.
- Ability to learn new tools and skills quickly.
- Proven ability to lead small teams/groups and manage a heavy workload.
- Experience interacting with business stakeholders: understanding, anticipating, and fulfilling their requirements.
- Ability to work with diverse teams across organizational lines and structures.
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If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.
Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
On-site Protocol
BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.
BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.
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