Senior Manager, Java/Angular JS Engineer

Job Description
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 organization 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 Centers 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 Centers.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Multistack Java Developer to join our team and technically lead a group of talented developers. This role will involve close collaboration with a large team, focusing on enhancing, developing, and maintaining enterprise-grade applications. The ideal candidate will have 8-15 years of strong hands-on experience in hardcore development, expertise in Java,and front-end frameworks like React and Angular, in a continuous release environment. This position also requires proactive leadership, and expertise in managing production outages and troubleshooting.

As a Software Engineer focusing on Java/Angular JS you will design, develop, and maintain software systems. This role involves both creative and analytical skills to solve complex problems and create efficient, reliable software. You will use your expertise in requirements analysis, programming languages, software development methodologies, and tools to build and deliver software products that meet the needs of businesses, organizations, or end- users. You will work with other engineers, product managers and delivery leads, to design systems, determine functional and non-functional needs and implement solutions accordingly. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.

What will you do in this role

• Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor moderately complex applications and software configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams across various regions worldwide.
• Design test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting test outcomes. Participate in requirement, design and specification reviews. Perform manual and automation testing.
• Elicit requirements for systems and software life cycle working practices and automation. Prepare design options for the working environment of methods, procedures, techniques, tools, and people. Utilize systems and software life cycle working practices for software components and micro-services. Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcome.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.
• Participate in Product planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and Product goals.
• Lead and mentor a team of Java Microservices and front-end developers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Stay actively involved in development tasks, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, maintainable code.
• Design and develop scalable systems using Java, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot for backend development.
• Develop rich, responsive user interfaces using React, Angular to deliver seamless user experiences.
• Ensure optimal integration of front-end and back-end components for customer-facing applications.
• Develop and consume Microservices, REST/SOAP APIs, and XML web services.
• Utilize tools like Splunk, ELK, and database queries to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues.
• Leverage tools like Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform for automated deployments.
• Work on cloud platforms like AWS, implementing and supporting cloud-based solutions.
• Work on application performance tuning, troubleshooting, and issue remediation.
• Coordinate with data modeling and visualization team as required.
• Work in compliance with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and best practices.
• Write and execute test cases to verify design requirements are met.
• Work with Git repository and Git actions for build and cloud deployment

What should you have

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• ~5-10 years of experience. 5+ years of experience with Java and Java frameworks and libraries (such as Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JEE, JDBC, JMS, JMX), relational databases, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and deployment to application servers.
• Develop and maintain microservices-based applications using Spring Boot.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs for seamless communication between services.
• Experience with enterprise-level databases both SQL and No-SQL such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB etc
• Automated testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, etc.)
• Monitoring and log tools (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Familiarity with AWS Cloud, CI/CD pipelines(Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.), and automation tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)..
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with modern product development practices – Agile, Scrum, test driven development, UX, design thinking.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices (Git, infrastructure as code, observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD).
• Cloud-native, ideally AWS certified.
• Product and customer-centric approach
• Support Agile development activities for approved stories in Jira.
• Design and implement UI and microservices using Java, Python, Node/Angular JS, Spring Boot framework and MyBatis
• Work on changes triggered by business requirement updates.
• Work on IBM Watson, Charting (HighChart or equivalent libraries), API, XML, JSON, and Database integration (PostgresSQL, Redshift, etc).
• Knowledge of GenAI, LLM, predictive analytics, metrics, and Vector databases

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with any front-end technologies like React, Angular for building responsive user interfaces.
• Understanding of security best practices and data protection methodologies.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and tools like Jira or Trello.
• Certification of any of public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
• A passionate commitment to learning about business domains and emerging technologies.

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.

Who we are

For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

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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Current Contingent Workers apply HERE

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Employee Status
Regular

Relocation
VISA Sponsorship
Travel Requirements
Flexible Work Arrangements
Hybrid

Shift
Valid Driving License
Hazardous Material(s)
Required Skills
Animal Vaccination, Business, Business Management, CI/CD, Client-Centric, Computer Science, Continuous Integrations, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Deployment Automation, Design Applications, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Information Technology Operations, Requirements Analysis, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Supply Chain Optimization, Supply Management, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing, TypeScript

Preferred Skills
Job Posting End Date
10/31/2025

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Requisition ID
R352919