At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where, Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Senior Automation Engineer Robotics Software

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Senior Automation Engineer Robotics Software, are to

• Work as part of an agile development team to build and support applications;
• Work with team and product manager to manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables;
• Interact directly with business customers to gather and understand requirements and how they translate in application features;
• Develop applications and services using the right tool for the job;
• Consistently contribute to solving common problems including shared libraries and frameworks;
• Conduct functional and non-functional testing;
• Troubleshoot and debug applications;
• Deploy applications across all environments in collaboration with development team, product management, and delivery;
• Champion code quality including unit and integration testing;
• Evaluate existing applications to refactor, update and add new features;
• Develop any technical documentation needed to accurately represent application design and code;
• Identify and pursue opportunities to improve own knowledge and skills and those of more junior engineers;
• Help to shape the vision for their own team's products and those of related teams, taking into account impacts, dependencies, and opportunities to collaborate with other teams and groups;
• Identify opportunities to develop new and better solutions;
• Anticipate and address technical obstacles affecting own team and related teams;
• Provide guidance for technical design and architecture decisions within the team;
• Participate in the evaluation and selection of new technologies;
• Mentor other people and teams on technologies, techniques or standards across the organization.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values. More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience;
• Minimum 5 years (Masters +3, or Doctorate +1) of experience in solving challenging technical problems in two or more of the following areas:
  • Single page web application development
  • Unix/Linux environment management
  • Cloud based continuous delivery and environment management
  • Mobile application development
  • Micro-service design and development
  • Large, distributed system development
  • Software security
  • Processing and analyzing large data sets
• Minimum 3 years designing cloud-based software solutions or certification equivalent;
• Practical experience and knowledge of industry practices;
• Expertise in at least one technology or facet of product development (research, design, programming, testing);
• Demonstrates developing cultivates innovation leadership competency;
• Demonstrates capable manages ambiguity leadership competency;
• Demonstrates strong courage leadership competency and written and verbal communication skills.