Baxter—Mgr, Software Development

Job description

Description: This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Job Summary We are seeking a Development and Test Manager with 12+ years of experience leading software development, verification, and quality engineering for connected healthcare and regulated medical software. The manager will provide technical and people leadership across the complete product lifecycle—from requirements, architecture, design, and implementation through functional, automation, performance, reliability, and release-readiness testing. This role owns delivery of cloud-native applications, REST and GraphQL APIs, user interfaces, microservices, medical-device integrations, and EMR/EHR workflows within agreed quality, schedule, and budget commitments. The role combines engineering leadership, development and test governance, technical direction, stakeholder management, design-control compliance, and audit-ready delivery. What you'll be doing - Define and continuously improve the integrated software development and test strategy in alignment with product roadmaps, business priorities, regulatory commitments, architecture direction, and release plans. - Lead software developers, automation engineers, performance engineers, and functional verification engineers; manage capacity, hiring, onboarding, objectives, coaching, technical development, succession planning, and delivery accountability. - Plan and lead engineering assignments involving the evaluation, selection, and adaptation of software designs, technologies, development methods, test approaches, tools, and engineering practices. - Provide technical direction from product conception through requirements, architecture, detailed design, implementation, integration, verification, release, and sustaining activities. - Establish software engineering governance covering estimation, design and code reviews, coding standards, branching and configuration management, unit and component testing, static analysis, code coverage, technical debt, defect management, and quality metrics. - Ensure software architecture and implementation meet requirements for maintainability, security, scalability, performance, reliability, interoperability, observability, and supportability. - Own delivery of cloud-native applications, microservices, REST and GraphQL APIs, web user interfaces, integration services, and data processing capabilities using appropriate C#/.NET and related technologies. - Establish test governance, risk-based planning, entry and exit criteria, requirements traceability, defect management, quality dashboards, and release-readiness assessments. - Own the roadmap and governance for reusable C#-based REST API and UI automation frameworks, including coding standards, test-data management, parallel execution, logging, reporting, and environment configuration. - Ensure unit, component, integration, smoke, regression, performance, scalability, reliability, security, and release-level testing is incorporated into CI/CD pipelines with appropriate automated quality gates. - Guide design, development, integration, and verification of HL7 ADT, FHIR resources, clinical workflows, EMR/EHR interfaces, connected medical devices, real-time communications, notifications, and downstream clinical systems. - Implement configuration and change management throughout the complete product lifecycle, including design, development, verification, release, and sustaining phases. - Partner with product, clinical, systems, architecture, DevOps, cybersecurity, quality, regulatory, service, manufacturing, and external integration teams to resolve dependencies, technical issues, and product risks. - Drive root-cause analysis by correlating application behavior, source code, automated and performance results, logs, API traces, network data, database records, queues, container metrics, and infrastructure telemetry. - Incorporate field issues, customer feedback, post-market learnings, and production trends into product design improvements, corrective actions, regression coverage, reliability testing, and performance validation. - Ensure compliance with the product development process, design controls, Quality System requirements, software lifecycle procedures, cybersecurity expectations, and applicable regulatory standards. - Maintain audit-ready requirements, architecture and design records, code and review evidence, plans, test cases, objective evidence, reports, approvals, and traceability in approved tools such as Jira, Jama, source-control platforms, and validated test-management systems. - Develop project plans, engineering milestones, resource strategies, budgets, and delivery forecasts; identify and mitigate issues that could affect quality, cost, scope, or schedule. - Manage external development partners, contractors, vendors, and third-party service providers, including technical direction, deliverable acceptance, and performance monitoring. - Communicate development progress, quality status, technical risks, mitigation plans, resource needs, architecture decisions, test findings, and go/no-go recommendations to program and leadership forums. What you'll bring - 12–18 years of software engineering, software development, testing, verification, quality engineering, or performance engineering experience, including at least 5 years leading multidisciplinary technical teams in a regulated or safety-critical environment. - B.E/B. Tech in Computer Science / Electronics & Communication / Electrical or related field  - Demonstrated experience managing the complete software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, architecture, design, implementation, code review, unit testing, integration, verification, release, and sustaining engineering. - Strong hands-on or technical leadership experience with C#/.NET, object-oriented design, design patterns, REST and GraphQL APIs, microservices, web applications, and distributed systems. - Demonstrated ownership of functional and automation test strategy for REST APIs, web user interfaces, integration workflows, and end-to-end regression using Playwright, Selenium, NUnit, xUnit, MSTest, or comparable technologies. - Experience with software architecture and engineering practices such as clean architecture, secure coding, static analysis, code quality, code coverage, configuration management, branching strategies, dependency management, and technical-debt reduction. - Experience validating distributed microservices, event-driven systems, JSON/XML, SQL/PostgreSQL, authentication, authorization, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, MQTT, or comparable technologies. - Working knowledge of Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, autoscaling, service discovery, role-based access control, secrets management, service mesh, resilience, and cloud observability. - Experience with CI/CD architecture, Git, build automation, automated quality gates, pipeline troubleshooting, artifact management, deployment practices, test reporting, and engineering dashboards. - Healthcare domain expertise covering HL7 v2, ADT messages and acknowledgements, FHIR REST resources, EMR/EHR workflows, connected medical devices, data integrity, patient safety, privacy, and clinical risk. - Knowledge of regulated healthcare software practices and standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, design controls, cybersecurity expectations, and formal verification evidence. - Ability to manage complex projects and engineering programs within boundaries of quality, time, scope, and budget while balancing development and verification priorities. - Strong people leadership, stakeholder influencing, conflict resolution, planning, prioritization, vendor coordination, risk management, and executive communication skills. Preferred Skills - Experience with SIP, RTP, WebSocket, WebRTC, audio/video communication, Kamailio, FreeSWITCH, RTPEngine, or comparable real-time communication technologies. - Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Application Insights, APM platforms, centralized logging, packet analysis, database diagnostics, and automated performance-threshold evaluation. - Knowledge of Azure Key Vault, Azure App Configuration, Redis, Web PubSub, Terraform, KEDA, infrastructure-as-code, service virtualization, and container security. - Experience supporting regulatory audits, formal submissions, post-market investigations, and enterprise-scale healthcare product releases. - Familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 13485, risk management, cybersecurity expectations, and quality systems for regulated healthcare software. - Experience with Jira, Jama, validated toolchains, Agile/Scrum delivery, and formal release-readiness reviews. - C#, Azure, Kubernetes, performance testing, healthcare interoperability, PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification is advantageous. Equal Employment Opportunity Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic. Reasonable Accommodations Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please click on the link here and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information. Recruitment Fraud Notice Baxter has discovered incidents of employment scams, where fraudulent parties pose as Baxter employees, recruiters, or other agents, and engage with online job seekers in an attempt to steal personal and/or financial information. 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