Manager, Platform Integrations & Engineering

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Manager Platform Integrations & Engineering

The opportunity

The Manager Platform Integrations & Engineering leads a global team that designs builds and supports secure scalable integrations for CRG Digital platforms and clinical research capabilities. You will set engineering standards across enterprise applications data platforms vendor ecosystems and cloud technologies while guiding the shift from bespoke development to reusable configurable and increasingly automated solutions.

What youll do

• Lead mentor and grow a global team of integration and platform engineers responsible for development and production support; set clear expectations for quality ownership delivery and operational excellence.
• Provide technical oversight across SQL Python Talend MuleSoft Oracle SOA Tidal Snowflake and Databricks. Partner with Platform Architecture and solution architects to turn enterprise architecture direction into repeatable engineering patterns.
• Set and enforce standards for API file-based database event-driven batch and cloud integrations including SOPs reusable patterns naming and coding conventions technical documentation and lifecycle management.
• Promote configuration and reuse first with clear criteria for when teams should configure reuse extend custom-build retain modernize consolidate or replace a solution. Minimize bespoke development and modernize legacy integrations toward API-first and cloud-native patterns.
• Ensure integrations meet requirements for scalability resilience security maintainability performance and operational support . Support enterprise applications clinical and vendor platforms APIs cloud data platforms external partners and data movement into and across Snowflake Databricks and cloud object storage.
• Advance CI/CD and DevOps maturity . Establish source control branching pull requests peer reviews release management and automated testing; build reusable unit and regression testing frameworks for standard integration patterns.
• Automate build validation code quality static analysis vulnerability and secrets scanning deployment gates and release validation. Use AI-assisted development and testing where appropriate for code documentation test cases troubleshooting and repeatable work with governance and human oversight
• Ensure practices comply with applicable SDLC change-control validation cybersecurity privacy and regulatory requirements. Maintain segregation of duties traceability deployment approval and production access controls.
• Keep integration assets documented with clear ownership dependencies support procedures and lifecycle plans. Partner with Run-the-Engine and support teams on escalation paths knowledge transfer support documentation and engineering ownership.
• Keep production integration monitored observable supportable and resilient. Establish proactive logging alerting dependency management and automated recovery where feasible; drive root-cause analysis and permanent fixes for recurring failures.
• Track availability failures incident volume mean time to detect and resolve deployment quality defect leakage technical debt SLA performance development cycle time quality automation productivity integration health capacity and operational risk.
• Balance project delivery modernization technical debt production support and strategic priorities; allocate resources accordingly. Partner with Product Architecture Data Quality Cybersecurity Infrastructure business stakeholders and manage vendor or contractor resources to the same standards.

What you will bring

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or a related field.
• Comparable to 8 years of progressive technology or integration engineering experience including significant experience leading technical engineering teams.
• Strong experience designing developing and supporting enterprise integrations in complex production environments including production-critical services and root-cause analysis and remediation.
• Demonstrated technical experience with several of the following: Talend; MuleSoft / Anypoint Platform; Oracle SOA; SQL; Python; Snowflake; Databricks; and Tidal or comparable enterprise scheduling/orchestration technology.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs web services file-based and database integrations batch processing middleware enterprise integration patterns and cloud data and integration architectures.
• Experience with Git-based source control CI/CD pipelines automated testing code review and modern DevOps practices.

Preferred experience

• Clinical research life sciences healthcare or another highly regulated industry.
• GxP Computer System Validation (CSV) regulated SDLC change-control and auditability requirements.
• Modernizing legacy integration estates and moving teams toward API-first reusable cloud-native patterns.
• Automated software-quality and security controls in CI/CD pipelines.
• Data integration for enterprise data platforms and lakehouse architectures including Snowflake Databricks and cloud object storage.
• AI-assisted engineering in a controlled enterprise development environment.

How you lead

You bring technical credibility to design reviews and engineering decisions; establish disciplined standards; take ownership through root cause and lasting resolution; balance delivery with long-term architecture and sustainability; reduce manual effort technical debt duplication and operational overhead; develop engineers into technical leaders; and work effectively across architecture data product quality cybersecurity and business teams.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific we are committed to fostering a healthy and harmonious workplace for our employees. We understand the importance of creating an environment that allows individuals to excel. Please see below for the required qualifications for this position which also includes the possibility of equivalent experience:

• Able to communicate receive and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
• Able to work upright and stationary for typical working hours.
• Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.
• May require as-needed travel (0-20%).

Location: Remote US. Relocation assistance is NOT provided.

*Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

*Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check which includes a drug screening.

The annual salary range estimated for this position in North Carolina is $105000 - $150000. This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company team and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy.

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