Senior Software Engineer, OHIF and Medical Imaging

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biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
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Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

HEALTH:

- Medical plan for you and your dependents.

- Personal Accident Insurance

- Life Insurance

- Critical illness cover

WEALTH:

- Salary structure and Flexi basket

- Provident fund of 12%

- Gratuity scheme

YOURSELF: Internal growth and development programs & trainings

Job Summary:

The Senior Software Engineer, OHIF and Medical Imaging, will be responsible for developing and enhancing the OHIF Viewer, an open-source, web-based medical imaging platform. This role involves creating custom workflows, implementing advanced imaging features, and ensuring the platform's extensibility and performance. This role will also be responsible for successful integration of the OHIF viewer with a cloud-based platform for imaging clinical trials

Key Accountabilities:

Solution architecture

− Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability. 
− Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products. 
− Supports a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).

System design

− Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology. Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. 
− Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements. 
− Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders.
− Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems. 
− Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.

Programming & Software development

− Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
− Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. 
− Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes. 
− Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.

Software design

− Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns and methodology. 
− Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
− Recommends designs which take into account target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems.
− Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. 
− Leads reviews of others' designs. 
− Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software.
− Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods.

Quality Assurance

− Contributes to the collection of evidence and the conduct of formal audits, reviews or compliance of activities, processes, data, products or services. 
− Examines records for evidence that appropriate testing and other quality control activities have taken place and determines compliance with organisational directives, standards and procedures. 
− Identifies non-compliances, non-conformances and abnormal occurrences.

Data modelling & design

− Applies data analysis, design, modelling, and quality assurance techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of business processes, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions). 
− Advises database designers and other application development team members on the details of data structures and associated components.

Emerging Technology

− Supports market monitoring and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate potential impacts threats and opportunities.
− Contributes to reports and technology road mapping and sharing knowledge and insights with of emerging technologies with others.

Quality Management

− Uses appropriate methods and a systematic approach in the development, maintenance, control and distribution of quality and environmental standards. 

− Makes technical changes to and controls the updates and distribution of quality standards. 
− Distributes new and revised standards.

Consultancy

− Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates and recommends options, implementing if required. 
− Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements. 
− Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited.

Measurement

− Collect and maintain data for measurement. 
− Generate and produce reports, distribute reports. 
− Use appropriate measurement tools for routine analysis of data.

Database design

− Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software and facilities. 
− Assesses proposed changes to object / data structures, in order to evaluate alternative solutions. Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability. 
− Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.

Relationship Management
− Implements stakeholder engagement / communications plan. 
− Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information. 
− Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management. 
− Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
− Understands and collaborates on the analysis of user/customer needs and represents this in their work.
− Influences customers, suppliers and partners at account level.
− Engages across all stakeholders to ensure that user needs are being met throughout
− Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.

Business Skills

− Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and nontechnical
− Plans, schedules and monitors work to meet time and quality targets.
− Facilitates collaboration between stakeholders who share common objectives. 
− Selects appropriately from applicable standards, methods, tools and applications. 
− Fully understands the importance of security to own work and the operation of the organisation. 
− Seeks specialist security knowledge or advice when required to support own work or work of immediate colleagues. 
− Maintains an awareness of developing practices and their application and takes responsibility for driving own development.

Other

− Carry out any other reasonable duties as requested.

Skills:
− Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
− A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning.
− Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks and prioritize workload with attention to detail.
− Shows Initiative and self-confidence, is adaptable and is able to manage changing and evolving priorities.
− Ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.

−Demonstratable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks.

−Ability to plan own work to meet given objectives and processes.
− Proactively participates in skills improvement training.
− Ability to coach and mentor colleagues within the team.

− Ability to handle production support work.

− A self-starter and able to work under own initiative.
− Maintains up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect testing and technology within the Life sciences domain

− Demonstrable ability to challenge work (such as identifying and adding new custom features with improved timelines)

Knowledge and Experience:
− Proven relevant experience in systems integration and implementation, or software development, or a related discipline
− Demonstrated ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders
− Demonstrable experience in the same or very similar role
− Experience working successfully with a matrix organization.

- Programming Languages: Proficiency in modern programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python.
- Web Development: Strong experience with web development frameworks and libraries, including React, Angular, or
- Medical Imaging Standards: In-depth knowledge of medical imaging standards and protocols, particularly DICOM.

- OHIF and Imaging Frameworks: Experience with OHIF, Cornerstone3D, , or similar imaging frameworks is highly desirable.

- Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with cloud-based platforms and services, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, for deploying AI models and image processing algorithms.
- AI and Machine Learning: Experience in developing and implementing AI and machine learning models for medical imaging applications.
- Image Processing: Proficiency in image processing and analysis techniques, including segmentation, registration, and manipulation.
- Database Management: Knowledge of database systems and data management, including SQL and NoSQL databases.

Education:
− Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience.
− English: Fluent.

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