Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. With revenues of $40+ billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our 100,000 employees the resources and opportunities to make meaningful contributions to the world. The customers we serve fall within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions, and government agencies. Our products and services help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and solve challenges ranging from sophisticated research to routine testing to field applications.

How Will You Make an Impact?

We are a diverse, and globally distributed team that is using pioneering Cloud and IoT technologies to build and expand Thermofisher Digital Foundational Platform that delivers value to the customers through IoT Remote monitoring and Artificial Intelligence, delivers a whole suite of scientific Software-as-a-Service applications.

This software engineering manager role is based in Tijuana, Mexico. You will manage an engineering team of developers, testers, scrum masters and product owners.

The team is dedicated to crafting and maintaining solutions for instrument connectivity and Artificial Intelligence, You will work closely with product management and collaborate with colleagues, customers, partners, and team members from around the world to design, develop, and implement these solutions.

You are highly technical and can be hands-on as needed. You will be able to guide the team in both strategy and execution. 

What Will You Do?

Drive engineering excellency. Oversee team software life cycle activities to ensure quality, reliability, compliance, and system scalability. Ensure alignment, coordination, and continuous improvement for ongoing project execution.Lead and champion scaled agile and lean processes for software development.Collaborate with product managers, program/project managers, business leaders to define technical strategy and roadmap.Collaborate with architects to define software architecture (efficiency, stability, scalability)Establish the right staffing strategy. Partner with local HR to establish/enhance resource related strategies and processes, such as recruiting strategy, training program, team pipeline analysis, career path planning, organizational healthiness etc.Mentor, coach developers as a responsibility. 

How Will You Get Here?

Minimally Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, OR related subject area with master’s degree preferred10+ years of prior experience in IT and software development delivering enterprise level on premise and cloud-based applications5+ years of hands-on experience building web, cloud based, and micro service architected applications (Java/Python preferred, experience with Java OSGi framework a plus)4+ years of relevant technical leadership experience (as Technical Lead or QA Lead) Deep understanding and experience in software development practices including agile scrum, scaled agile, continuous integration and deployment, and fully automated testing strategies. (Plus)Systems experience (software/hardware/reagents) in biotech, medical device, or life sciences industry a strong (Plus)Experience with architectures that satisfy regulated standards such as ISO 14385 or 21 CFR Part II is also a strong (Plus)Clinical research software experience (Plus)Understanding on Cloud infrastructure and open source Large Language Model (Plus)Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisionsExperience working with geographically distributed teams (Strong Plus)Characteristics:Verbal and written communicationExcellent social skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiationEmotional Intelligence: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, communication skillsActs with Integrity & TrustHighly effective communicatorThrives in a sophisticated fast-paced environmentFlexible and adaptableAnalytical Thinking/ Decision MakingBias towards action and experimentation, hands-onDedication to ResultsEffective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goals