Associate Director, Lead Frontend Engineer

Job Description

Our Digital team is innovating how we understand our patients and their needs. Working cross functionally we are inventing new ways of communicating, measuring and interacting with our customers and patients through digital channels and technologies.

Position Description:

Associate Director, Lead Frontend Engineer will work within the Human Health Insights, Analytics and Data area to contribute to development of our advanced data science application platform. We are realizing the vision of a cohesive commercial decision support suite, helping stakeholders make data-driven decisions to optimize delivery of our product to patients. The candidate will work with the Solutions Engineering team to architect and implement highly available and performant solutions using AWS cloud, Kubernetes, and AWS AI/ML services.

Our solutions bring together business, data science, and cloud engineering worlds, and leverage technologies like Jupyter, Vue and React, Voila, Kubernetes, and more. The Lead Frontend Engineer doesn’t need to be an expert in all of these, but should have excellent programming skills and experience in JavaScript and Python and a demonstrated ability to learn and grow.

The preferred candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit, understanding of healthcare & technology, a demonstrated record of leading / guiding / mentoring / managing teams to design and build solutions preferably using AWS cloud platform services. The candidate will have demonstrated consistently strong leadership skills, an ability to work independently and deal well with ambiguity and strong collaboration skills. The candidate will empower a growth mindset and inspire a culture of continual learning. This role will require interfacing and collaborating with many teams throughout a lot of our Company’s markets and so strong communication skills is a must.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead frontend engineering activities for all of our products, from quick prototypes to extensive applications.

• Build and lead a new team of engineers to execute our product vision

• Build and maintain web-based applications across several solution verticals

• Lead, Develop, and influence software development patterns and standards

• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and leadership to other team members

• Conduct code reviews, ensure changes enhance maintainability, performance, and security

• Analyze and improve efficiency and scalability of systems and processes

• Create automated unit tests

• Collaborate with DevOps team to implement CI/CD release workflow

• Collaborate on idea generation, definition, and construction with teams across the company

• Learn about the newest techniques and technologies and share with others to improve our team culture and ways of working

Position Qualification:

Education Minimum Requirements:

• BS (or equivalent) in Data Science, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, IT, or an equivalent scientific/commercial discipline.

• Masters/PhD preferred.

Required Experience and Skills:

• 5+ years experience building and delivering production quality web applications

• Excellent software engineering and debugging skills

• Advanced experience with JavaScript and HTML/CSS

• Advanced experience with Python, preferably also with the IPyWidgets and Jupyter ecosystem, Flask/Django, etc.

• Deep knowledge of at least one modern JavaScript framework such as React or Vue

• Experience building web applications from scratch while working with a variety of full-stack tools and technologies

• Experience using cloud platforms and RESTful APIs

• Exposure to BI tools a plus (PowerBI, SpotFire, Tableau, etc)

• Experience in technical guidance, mentoring, leadership

• Strong understanding of application security

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong teamwork ethic, passion for learning and desire to seek new challenges

• Experience leading team in an agile structure and reporting to senior leadership.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with diverse groups of work colleagues and positively manage ambiguity.

• Self-motivation, proactivity, and ability to work independently with minimum direction.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, along with the ability to communicate appropriately and confidently with colleagues from different backgrounds and seniority levels.

• Excellent organizational skills, with ability to navigate a complex matrix environment and organize/prioritize work efficiently and effectively.

• Proven track record of successful completion of multi-stakeholder projects necessitating coordination cross-functionally between several departments.

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Under New York City law, the Company is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this job. Final determinations with respect to salary will take into account a number of factors, which may include, but not be limited to the primary work location and the chosen candidate’s relevant skills, experience, and education.

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Requisition ID:R208698