Senior IT Developer-Oracle PLSQL

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A Day in the LifeGCH Bridge Mappings developer: Technical lead for developing the mappings for new and existing studies added to the Global Complaint Handling bridge, for Clinical Safety. Complaint handling bridge sends potential complaints from clinical trials to complaint handling system and sends adverse events and device deficiencies to IMDRF coding system.  There are several releases throughout the year, which consist of adding new clinical studies, updates to data for existing studies and occasionally, updates to the overall bridge logic This role is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and consistency of mappings for each release.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Engages with business leaders to understand how strategies and data-driven changes can improve efficiencies and add value.
• Work with data sets to define use cases to improve products, processes and/or services.
• Collaborates with Business Relationship Manager (BRM), business stakeholders and IT Product Owners / Managers to develop business requirements for product or system changes.
• Drives business agenda during solution delivery process.
• Functional Skills: Ability to analyze data and trends in order to develop recommendations to solve business problems.
• Additional Skills: Problem Solving, Detail Oriented, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Service, Process Improvement, Communication.
• Technology: Understanding of systems, software and technological concepts, Familiarity with data analysis tools and data modeling methodologies.

Summary of responsibilities:

• Participate in requirements meetings, and provide input/feedback for requirements as needed, to ensure consistency with bridge logic and standards. 
• Create data mapping document for new studies and updates.   Design the standard/custom profiles such that studies can reuse the mappings.   Conduct impact assessment to ensure new study design does not impact existing studies or bridge logic.  Review document with developer to ensure understanding.
• Conduct code review for mapping development.  Ensure standards are met.  Review and update development standards as needed!
• Help write the test conditions to ensure all data is tested thoroughly, for new study as well as regression based on updates to existing functionality as needed.
• Review test scripts to ensure everything is being tested thoroughly.
• Help triage and/or resolve defects identified during testing.
• Help identify/provide resolution for production issues escalated by support team.
• Point person for technical questions regarding the bridge.
• Update bridge design documents, direct design discussions and development for any bridge logic changes
• As needed, complete development for bridge logic and/or study mapping– (this is more of a good to have, not required).
• Collaborate with clinical development partners in designing improved bridge interface model which can be leveraged by both GCH bridge and safety reports.
• Identify areas of improvement for efficiency and standards for the bridge

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically, an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes.
Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager.
Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower-level specialists.

Organizational Impact: Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.
May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation.
Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.
Implements solutions to problems.

Communication and Influence: Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.
May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: Typically provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
Typically manages major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader.

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

• Requires mastery of PL/SQL and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• May have broad knowledge of project management.
• Requires 7+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree
• Experience in the following applications is highly desired – Oracle Clinical, Medidata RAVE, Life Sciences Hub.
• Experience with data integrations and sending data from one system to another
• Experience with troubleshooting and problem solving in complex environments, multiple systems and multiple teams

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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