Software Architect

Software Architect – Cloud Services

Company Overview

Danaher Corporation:

Danaher is a global science and technology innovator with more than 59,000 associates committed to helping our customers solve complex challenges and improve quality of life around the world. Our world class brands have unparalleled leadership positions in some of the most demanding and attractive industries and our technologies address a broad range of societal needs:

•   Protecting the global water supply and ensuring environmental stewardship

•   Protecting the world's food supply and verifying pharmaceutical dosages and authenticity

•   Leading scientific research and advancing patient health with the highest diagnostic confidence

•   Improving dental outcomes and promoting access to comfortable patient care around the world

  Danaher generates over $18 billion USD of annual revenue from five business segments: Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Dental, Water Quality, and Product Identification.

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  Danaher Digital:

  Danaher Digital is our digital innovation, incubation and acceleration center where we’re bringing together the leading strategic product and business leaders, technologists and data scientists for the common purpose of accelerating development and commercialization of disruptive and transformative digital solutions into the marketplace.

  We accelerate Danaher’s digital innovation journey by partnering with Danaher operating companies (OPCOs) to monetize and commercialize the potential of emerging and disruptive digital trends such as AI, Machine Learning (ML), Big Data, IoT, Augmented Reality (AR), Cloud (SaaS/PaaS) and other Digital frontiers. If you are driven to forge new disruptive and transformative digital apps, platforms and services by working with such cool and emerging technologies, you belong in Danaher Digital.

  True to Danaher’s shared purpose of “Helping Realize Life’s potential”, we work alongside industry’s leading companies in large, diverse and growing markets segments – from industrials to environmental sciences to life sciences to medical diagnostics. If you are inspired by and motivated to create true impact on lives and industries, at a scale and breadth that Danaher is uniquely positioned for, then you belong in Danaher Digital.

  If you thrive in startup-like environments where you can envision, architect and rapidly build hi-tech solutions that are literally ground-breaking in the diverse markets Danaher is uniquely positioned to lead, then Danaher Digital is where you want to be.

  Located in Silicon Valley, the heart of global innovation, Danaher Digital is ideally situated to capitalize on the digital mega trends transforming our world. And now we are establishing a strategic talent and innovation hub in India’s Silicon Valley – Bangalore, with broad ranging product capabilities and leadership.

Position Description

As a Software Architect for Cloud Platforms, you will join a team of skilled software engineers to drive Danaher’s Digital innovation and transformation initiatives in IoT, Data and Analytics (Machine Learning) applications targeted at multiple market segments such as Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Industrial manufacturing and environmental sciences. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing highly scalable, distributed, reliable cloud-native systems that will serve as the backbone of Danaher’s digital platforms. You will also be called upon to mentor and guide other team members. You will share and apply your knowledge and proficiency in architecting and coding software components that run on AWS (preferred) or Azure IaaS or PaaS infrastructure. You will work on Event driven systems that

interact with back end databases and other services. You will be called upon to solve complex analytical problems independently as well as with your team members. You will work with a globally distributed Agile team in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

•   Design, develop, and deploy highly scalable backend cloud micro-services based on distributed systems using Java/.NET

•   Work with SW architects to understand the problem domain and come up with creative solutions for new services.

•   Design and implement backend micro-services based on AWS and/or Azure cloud components.

•   Design and develop event driven systems.

•   Create unit tests for software components and ensure adequate coverage is provided.

•   Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meets/exceeds business customer, and technical requirements.

•   Share in code and design reviews with agile team

•   Integrate 3rd party software components into existing software applications

 Work with geographically distributed teams while maintaining highest standards in collaboration and communication.

Requirements

•   Proven prior hands-on experience (10+ years) in developing highly scalable, distributed backend web implementations with modern API standards including RESTful APIs; Experience in delivering and owning web scale data systems in production

•   Proven prior hands-on experience (6+ years) in developing solutions using AWS Cloud services such as AWS Lambda, AWS S3, AWS DynamoDB, AWS EMR SPARK or equivalent, Cloud Formation, or other Big-Data solutions (Cloudera, Hortonworks, Databricks); Equivalent experience in Microsoft Azure will also be considered.

•   6+ years of prior experience designing and developing collection and storage for big data solutions using one or more of the following: MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redshift, ObjectStore, timeseries databases, HDFS/HBase, etc.

•   Familiarity and deep knowledge of Big-Data related Apache open-source frameworks and services or Azure big data services is a plus.

•   7+ years of proven experience in developing multi-threaded software in a mainstream language (e.g. Java, C#)

•   Deep understanding of Object Oriented Programming; Solid understanding and experience of Domain Modeling in relational and non-relational databases

•   Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations

•   An automation mindset including monitoring, reporting, iterating and CI/CD practices

•   Experience with developer tools like git, Maven, Eclipe/VS Code or other major IDEs and

  commonly used open source components.

•   Experience with agile development methodology; Ability to work with multi-geography/site teams.

•   Clear written and verbal communications skills; Attention to detail, self-motivated, creative and flexible; Excellent time management and organizational skills.

•   A proven team player and problem solver with the ability to work collaboratively to brainstorm, uncover key issues, troubleshoot and recommend/implement solutions

•   Specific Must Have Technical skills

o Database – SQL/NoSQL – experience
o Test driven development practice experience

 Preferred Technical skills

o Kubernetes experience preferred
o Familiarity with chaos engineering
o Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Streaming or Flink o Infrastructure as code experience
o Gatling/JMeter
o Containerization

o Functional (serverless) programming experience

•   Degree in Computer Science or a related field

•   Willingness to travel (<10%)