Application Architect (Web visualization and AI)

We're on a mission to change the future of
clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the
biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world
but to do this, we need people like you.

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

HEALTH:

- Medical plan for you and your dependents.

- Personal Accident Insurance

- Life Insurance

- Critical illness cover

WEALTH:

- Salary structure and Flexi basket

- Provident fund of 12%

- Gratuity scheme

YOURSELF: Internal growth and development programs & trainings

Key Accountabilities:

Methods and tools

• Provides advice / guidance / expertise to support adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards, process tailoring in line with agreed standards and evaluation of methods and tools.
• Reviews and improves usage and application of methods and tools.

• Supports market monitoring and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate potential impacts, threats and opportunities.
• Contributes to reports and technology road mapping and sharing knowledge and insights with of emerging technologies with others.

• Contributes to selection of the requirements approach for projects, selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches.
• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements.
• Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Establishes the requirements baseline, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
• Investigates and processes and applies requests for changes to base-lined requirements.

• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
• Creates multiple design views, allows to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders.
• Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems.
• Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.

• Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate software design methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Specifies and designs large or complex software components.
• Undertakes impact analysis on major design options, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
• Specifies prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision making.
• Evaluates the quality of others' systems designs to ensure adherence to standards and identifies corrective action, if needed.
• Ensures that the system design balances functional, quality, security and systems management requirements.
• Contributes to development of organisational software design and architecture policies and standards.

• Assesses, analyses, develops, documents and implements changes based on requests for change.

• Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
• Supports a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).

• Uses appropriate methods and a systematic approach in the development, maintenance, control and distribution of quality and environmental standards.
• Makes technical changes to and controls the updates and distribution of quality standards.
• Distributes new and revised standards.

• Investigates and reports on hazards and potential risk events within a specific function or business area.

• Carries out any other reasonable duties as requested.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning
• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail
• Shows initiative and self-confidence is adaptable and is able to cope with changing and evolving priorities
• Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment
• Ability to apply domain knowledge to align and advise the best approaches and tools to meet business requirements
• Ability to clearly convey requirements within application domain to key stakeholders and provide solution components that realise the requirement of domain design
• Ability to clearly advise on areas of solution that may cause issues within application domain that may create issues and challenge the need of given requirements based on economic, time, business and complexity factors
• Ability to manage provision of consultancy services. In own areas of expertise, able to provide advice and guidance to consultants and/or the customer or other stakeholders through involvement in the delivery of consultancy services

• Demonstrable experience in technical delivery with a proven record in undertaking design and architecture activities
• Experience of Application architecture for building application products and components.
• Design methodology experience. Certification (e.g. UML) desirable
• Experience in scaled agile delivery. Certification (e.g. SAFe) desirable
• Experience in agile delivery. Certification (e.g. scrum) desirable

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience
• English: Fluent