Senior Manager, Migration Services Engineer

Job Description

R3 Senior Manager, Migration Services Engineer

The Opportunity

• 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 Centers 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 Center 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

Under the direction of Associate Director, Technical Product Management, Migration Services, the candidate will be responsible for delivery and maintenance of high quality, reliable, and cost-effective solutions that support and operate Migration Services product offerings and services.

We are looking for a highly experienced and knowledgeable Migration Services Solution Engineer to join our team. As a Sr engineer, you will be responsible for providing technical expertise and solutions for various public cloud rehosting toolsets, such as, AWS Cloud Migration Factory and Azure Migrate. Your in-depth understanding of migration services tools and software to support rehosting and modernization initiatives will be critical in ensuring successful relocations to and from our public cloud platforms. Developing and maintaining SDLC documentation for the platform and its capabilities and actively participating in promoting best practices through community of practice and learning sessions will also be a core part of your role. This position will:

• Develop and support products, tools and other technology applications for downstream data and application consumption.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to develop front end and back-end code based on prioritized requirements/user stories.
• Develops working software & unit tests based on the solution design within the solution’s architecture.
• Collaborate with scrum teams and third-party vendors to understand customer needs, develop products and services and identify risks/issues.

What will you do in this role

• Provide technical expertise and solutions for migration services: Utilize your knowledge of migration services rehosting capabilities to provide expert guidance and solutions for successful application and server migrations.
• Utilize migration tools and software: Leverage your expertise with migration tools and software to guide and support rehosting and modernization initiatives, ensuring seamless and efficient transitions.
• Coordinate migrations across cloud platforms: Solution migration methods supporting rehosting to and from public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid platforms, ensuring a smooth transfer of applications while adhering to security and compliance standards.
• Develop and maintain SDLC documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive SDLC documentation for the migration services platform, documenting best practices, processes, and procedures to ensure efficient and effective migrations.
• Promote best practices: Actively participate in promoting best practices through community of practice and learning sessions, sharing your expertise and knowledge with other engineers and teams.
• Construct, amend, and verify software systems, components, and integrations by writing software programs subject to estimation, measurement, quality processes, appropriate documentation, and continuous improvement processes.
• Enable and maintain software configuration management capability across heterogeneous technology environments, architectures, and platforms.
• Create and adapt software configuration applications and interfaces.
• Develop and employ software capabilities empowering creation, renewal, update, and destruction of data subject to given objectives regarding security, compliance, policy, scalability, efficiency, reliability, fidelity, flexibility, and portability.
• Validates and tests integrated systems subject to organizational standards regarding security, reporting, observation, and control.

Required Qualifications:

• Technical expertise: Familiarity with migration tools and software to support rehosting and modernization initiatives is essential.
• Experience with cloud platforms: Have extensive experience executing migrations to and from public cloud and hybrid platforms, including a deep understanding of the challenges and best practices associated with such migrations.
• SDLC documentation skills: Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain comprehensive SDLC documentation, documenting best practices, processes, and procedures.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills: Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical information clearly and concisely. Provide project management planning in development of complex initiatives supporting enterprise programs.

• Problem-solving and analytical skills: Proven ability to analyze complex technical issues and provide effective solutions while troubleshooting migration-related challenges.

• Identify and recommend continuous improvement opportunities to improve customer satisfaction, internal work efficiencies and cost reduction opportunities.
• Maintain awareness of external industry developments and best practices to determine applicability.
• Make recommendations on service and product improvements.
• Plan and coordinate activities with vendors to migration services offerings and solutions.

What should you have:

• 7+ years of experience in IT field.
• Min 2 years’ experience supporting software solutions for migration services activities.
• Min 2 years’ experience as cloud engineer with relevant certification in public cloud services (such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner).
• Working knowledge of the following migration software
  • AWS Cloud Migration Factory (CMF)
  • Azure Migrate
  • RiverMeadow
• Experience with the Pharmaceutical industry, particularly with IT compliance within the regulatory framework.
• Excellent technical written, diagramming, and oral communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with information technology professionals.
• Experience working in a global team environment.
• Ability to work with little supervision and proactively identify and respond to issues before they impact service.
• B.S. or equivalent experience required in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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