At Norstella, our mission is simple : to help our clients bring life-saving therapies to market quickerand 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 :

Have you wondered how life saving drugs and therapies are created, tested, marketed and made available to patients in need? Have you wondered how clinical trials are conducted at a global scale?.

How governments and health authorities regulate various organizations participating in this marketplace? Have you wondered how those companies and insurance providers price a certain drug, and how a care provider determines the right treatment for a given patient? If yes, Norstella could the next step in your career.

Reporting into Senior Director, the Technical Lead will be responsible for leading and managing a team of developers and engineers to deliver high-quality software products or services. In addition to technical expertise, the Tech Lead should have experience managing people, providing leadership, and creating a positive team culture.

The Technical lead will also work with external developers responsible for the development and subsequent support of the various platform services components underpinning all the content applications across Norstella. As part of a large technology group, the Technical Lead will work with product management, architecture and other software engineering teams in support of the product development roadmap.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead with great communication skills, deep experience in software engineering, and most importantly, the ability and willingness to keep learning in this ever-changing technology landscape.

Education : Minimum bachelors degree in computer science and engineering or related field of study, or equivalent experience.

Key Duties And Responsibilities :

- Build Strong engineering team and culture.

- Work on projects with significant complexity.

- 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.

- Communicate effectively.

- Be an "agile" person.

- You desire a fast-paced dynamic work environment.

- Review existing technologies for suitability and make recommendations for change.

- Develop, test, and maintain high-quality software applications using Spring Boot, AWS, and

Database technologies.

- Work with designers and project managers to understand client requirements and translate

them into technical specifications.

- Collaborate with developers on the team to ensure code quality and consistency.

- Help Troubleshoot and debug issues in production and non-production environments.

- Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving our coding practices and standards.

Key Requirements :

- 3+ years of experience designing, developing and architecting backend microservices with RESTful API and API security frameworks, service-oriented and/or microservices architecture.

- 3+ years of people management experience.

- 9+ years of experience in programming with Node.js.

- 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.

- 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks (React, etc).

- 2+ years of experience in Agile practices.

- 2+ years of experience with modern relational and NoSQL databases (Experience with

relational and/or non-relational databases like PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySQL etc is a big

plus).

- 4+ years of experience using modern build and deployment tools such as Jenkins and Docker.

- Experience with Test First (TDD) software development process.

- Experience within pharma/healthcare sector is a plus.