Senior Principal Developer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £57k - £106k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Novartis

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1996

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🧬 Biotechnology

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Pharmaceuticals • Biotechnology • Healthcare Insurance

Novartis is an innovative medicines company dedicated to reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. With a presence in over 250 million patients worldwide, Novartis focuses on harnessing scientific breakthroughs to develop transformative, high-value treatments in areas such as cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, immunology, neuroscience, and oncology. The company is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and aims to create a positive impact through societal contributions and environmental sustainability efforts. Furthermore, Novartis engages in research collaborations and embraces modern technology platforms to advance their research and development capabilities, making them a leader in the global healthcare industry.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain R packages that enable clinical trial team through supporting data engineering, statistical analyses, automation, and reporting workflows • Design, build and deploy Shiny applications for interactive dashboards and data exploration tools • Collaborate with statistical programmers and statisticians, and clinical reporting teams to understand requirements and translate them into efficient, reproducible code and tools • Apply AI responsibly to support product design and development focusing on reliable, explainable, and impactful use in development workflows and solutions • Drive the rollout of tooling through demos, pilots, training and support • Engagement in the user experience of our users to identify and drive opportunities for continuous improvement and modernization • Role model best practices for data science and software development • Documentation of tools and processes to support modernization in an inclusive manner • Appetite to engage in open-source communities to collaborate in external settings

🎯 Requirements

• MSc in a quantitative / computational science or equivalent • Experience as an R developer • Deep knowledge of data manipulation (tidyverse) and data visualization (ggplot2, plotly) • Demonstrated ability to develop production-grade R packages, including comprehensive documentation and rigorous testing frameworks • Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining R applications in production environments • Highly proficient in Shiny app development and deployment • Deep experience in software development best practices (virtual environments, git, CI/CD, code review etc.) • Hands-on experience applying AI and agentic approaches to improve developer productivity of data-driven applications • Solution-oriented mindset with a collaborative spirit • Good written English

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based bonus depending on certain performance parameters • Health insurance plans • Retirement plans • Wellbeing resources • Global recognition programs • Flexible and hybrid working options • Minimum 14 weeks paid parental leave