This position reports to the Development Manager in the Global Applications IT group. The successful candidate will have the ability to quickly come up to speed on a wide variety of functionality spanning all phases of the LIMS system, from sample accession, material tracking, study setup to data capture, database interfacing, reporting and invoicing capabilities. The candidate should have demonstrable successes designing and developing flexible systems to handle changing inputs, interfaces and reporting requirements.

The candidate will have development leadership experience, be a strong team motivator and alliance builder across IT disciplines to achieve on target deliveries to end users. The candidate must have full software development lifecycle experience in commercial or industry settings, and be comfortable working with remote teams spanning multiple disciplines.

Mandatory:
1. Nautilus or Millennium/Empower LIMS
2. Java or C#.net
a. Java for web server applications
b. C# for interfacing to instruments. This requires domain knowledge in interfacing to chromatography, mass spectrometry, sample management and other instrument systems.

Nice to Have:
1. Device driver experience (win32, dlls, C, etc)
2. Cursory VB understanding. This is because some of the existing code is written in VB.
3. Everything else listed below.

Key technology skills:
Nautilus (Thermo) and Millennium/Empower (Waters) are highly desired. Candidate must have OO design, Java, J2EE, JSP, C#, .NET, C++, C, database development (Oracle /stored procedures), XML and VB6 experience. Distributed computing/SOAP/web services/client server, API development, web development, Unix, win32, shell scripting also helpful.
Other technology details the candidate will encounter include: Tag libraries, Struts, Xerces/Xalan, DOM/SAX APIs, JDBC, Log4j, ADO, and ADO.NET

愁he candidate will be expected to pick the best approaches amongst object oriented and agile methodologies to produce robust, and reusable software systems. As this project is one phase of a multi-year design and build, the candidate will be expected to lead the development team forward through future phases as we convert more departments to work on new LIMS technology.

The candidate should be well versed on Software Development Lifecycle methodologies with exposure and experience with RUP and knowledge of CMM approaches.

This position has a strong emphasis on non-technical people skills, and will work with diverse roles in the organization including Project Management, Business Analysis and Business/IT Relationship Management. The position requires very strong verbal and written communications skills, and will include a large degree of interfacing with non-technical end users, company management, vendors and diverse IT department personnel.

Please send resume to Matt Weidenfeller
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