Senior Manager II, Principal Solution Engineer

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Position: Senior Manager II, Principal Solution Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, India

• Accountable for leading and delivering high quality solutions for capabilities such as Trial Design and Optimization, Trial Operations and Trial Acceleration, Trial Success prediction and Document Automation.

• Lead the end-to-end business analysis process partnering with R&D stakeholders to understand scientific, clinical, and operational needs — current state assessment, gap analysis, future state solution design, and requirement elicitation; and translate them into high‑value digital and analytical capabilities.

• Define system design requirements, data requirements, system interactions, and business process flows to support Trial Design, Optimization, Operations, and Success Prediction capabilities.

• Develop and maintain technology roadmaps in partnership with TOCM R&D B&IT Product Manager for better designing and optimizing clinical trials. 

• Provide techno-functional leadership for solution discovery, prototyping, and feasibility assessments across AI/ML, analytics, and workflow automation.

• Lead design, development, deployment, and maintenance of scalable software applications and machine learning solutions.

• Build software engineering applications and data science models, ensuring that ML models, LLMs are efficiently integrated into production systems and maintained at scale.

• Work closely with Product Managers, Solution Architects, Platform Engineers, Data Engineers, and UX designers to develop scalable design options.

• Ensure alignment to R&D BI&T architectural standards, patterns, integration guidelines, and enterprise data governance. Partner with R&D B&IT Enterprise Architect to assess needs and select the best technology solutions in alignment with Enterprise B&IT architecture principles, standards, patterns and guidelines

• Support development, testing, validation, and release management activities; ensure that solutions meet quality, security, and compliance standards ensuring best practices are being followed.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure proper integration of ML models, LLMs, and data pipelines into production systems.

• Drive continuous improvement in requirements of quality, solution documentation, and delivery processes.

• Monitor solution performance, user adoption, production issues, and enhancements, collaborating with engineering and operations teams for issue resolution. Oversee application performance, reliability, and security.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with minimal oversight. Mentors other team members effectively to unlock full potential

• Prior experience working in an Agile/Product based environment

• Recruit, onboard and manage team members, position them for success, and hold them accountable to deliver against the expected business outcomes

• Strong technical expertise, leadership skills, and a passion for delivering high-quality, reliable solutions.

• Strong data analytical skills, SQL, NOSQL databases.

• Implement CI/CD practices for software applications.

• Communicate project status, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership.

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Qualifications & Experience

• 13+ years of experience in solution analysis, business analysis, or techno-functional roles within data/analytics or digital product teams.

• 6-8 years of demonstrable experience in Lifesciences & Healthcare industry with proven expertise in data acquisition, clinical trial execution, and analysis reporting on a global scale. 5+ years of experience in building and managing teams.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Life Sciences, or related fields. Advanced degree preferred.

• Hands-on exposure to AI/ML enabled solutions, data engineering pipelines, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), and modern software architectures.

• Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile, DevOps, and product-based delivery methodologies.

• Understanding data modeling, SQL/NoSQL databases, APIs, cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

·       Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or similar languages.

• Experience in building/implementing Machine Learning and Deep Learning models and in evaluating and fine-tuning Machine Learning models.

• Proven track record of delivering complex software products in Agile environments.

• Exhibit influential leadership and communication capabilities with a proven ability to engage, develop and inspire a diverse geographical team.
•  Expertise in defining product vision, market positioning, and competitive strategy.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work in global, matrixed environments and influence business partners.
• Experience with vendor coordination, service delivery oversight, and outcome driven execution.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure using AWS services such as SageMaker, Lambda, EC2, S3, and CloudWatch.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
•  Strong knowledge of the current information technology landscape and experience with experimenting with new technologies from proof of concept through scaleup.
• Experience managing vendor and partner delivery with a focus on outcomes.
• Ability to build resilient teams with a “can-do” attitude.
• Demonstrated ability to retain and grow talent.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor teams and team members.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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