Role: Java Solution Architect
Location: India, Remote (Work from Anywhere in India)
Minimum Qualification: B. Tech. (or equivalent) from an accredited institution
Indicative Experience: 10+ Years
Domain: Preferably in Life-sciences / Pharma.
Other benefits: Health Insurance, Provident Fund, Life Insurance, Reimbursement of Certification Expenses, Gratuity, 24x7 Health Desk
About Norstella
At Norstella, our mission is simple: to help our clients bring life-saving therapies to market quicker—and help patients in need.
Founded in 2022, but with history going back to 1939, Norstella unites best-in-class brands to help clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle —and get the right treatments to the right patients at the right time.
Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making. Together, via our market-leading brands, we help our clients:
· Citeline – accelerate the drug development cycle
· Evaluate – bring the right drugs to market
· MMIT – identify barrier to patient access
· Panalgo – turn data into insight faster
· The Dedham Group – think strategically for specialty therapeutics
By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics.
As one of the largest global pharma intelligence solution providers, Norstella has a footprint across the globe with teams of experts delivering world class solutions in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Japan, China and India.
Job Description:
As a Solutions Architect, you will serve as the Lead Architect and expert for software applications and business solutions. You will deal with complex, interrelated applications and systems requiring modern full-stack platforms, and will work with rapidly evolving technology-based solutions and teams. You will work closely with internal stakeholders to analyze and define unique and innovative solutions for achieving strategic business goals.
To succeed in this new position, you will:
- Work closely with Engineering and Product teams to come up with technical solutions to our complex problems
- Contribute to and define application architecture for both internal teams as well as external clients.
- Ability to transform Viable solutions with alignment with business and technology capability.
- Be able to perform POC to evaluate various tools and technologies and be able to create a Decision matrix around it.
- Have a strong sense of ownership of the solutions that your team works on
- Be willing to work with and invest yourself in learning new technologies, programming languages, databases etc.
- Be proactive, and a self-learner.
- Communicate effectively
- Work closely with Engineering teams to propose and design solutions that are scalable, with high availability, and high fault tolerance.
- Evangelize EA tech principles, best practices across the organization.
- Deliver results in an agile environment
Mandatory Skills:
- Building scalable full-stack solutions in a fast-paced environment.
- 10+ years of experience as a technology leader designing and developing software solutions.
- Proficiency in modern programming languages including Java, C#, Framework/Core.
- Experience with service-oriented and/or microservices architecture
- Experience with RESTful APIs
- Event-driven/queueing mechanisms
- DevOps, CI/CD
- Cloud Experience (AWS and/or Azure technologies a plus)
- Enterprise Architect Tools
- Experience solving for complex solutions that span multiple systems.
- Excellent Organizational and Project Management skills
- Outstanding communication skills
- Experience with Agile development and delivery – Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban methodologies
- Experience with relational and/or non-relational databases like Azure (Azure Data Factory/Synapse preferred), PostgreSQL, DynamoDB SnowFlake etc is a plus
Nice To Have:
- Experience within pharma/healthcare sector is a plus
Our guiding principles for success at Norstella
01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First
We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do.
02: Integrity, Truth, Reality
We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn’t. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and resources to achieve our goals.
03: Kindness, Empathy, Grace
We will empathize with everyone's situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness, and accept opportunities for improvement with grace and gratitude. We use this principle across the organization to collaborate and build lines of open communication.
04: Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance
We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations. Our ability to recover from missteps and failures in a positive way will help us to be successful in our mission.
05: Humility, Gratitude, Learning
We will be true learners by showing humility and gratitude in our work. We recognize that the smartest person in the room is the one who is always listening, learning, and willing to shift their thinking.
