Senior Software Developer Transformation Engineering
Job Description
Job Description
Senior Software Developer Transformation Engineering
Reports to: Enterprise Architect
Overview of the role
The Senior Software Developer will join the Transformation Engineering Team and help modernize critical healthcare and laboratory technology. The role will build domain-based services, modernize legacy applications and reduce dependency on tightly connected systems and shared databases.
This is a senior hands-on position. The developer will work with architects, Technical Business Analysts, QA and business teams to modernize one system, workflow or business area at a time without disrupting operations.
Key Responsibilities
" Design and build domain-based services for critical healthcare and laboratory capabilities.
" Modernize legacy applications and workflows while protecting business continuity.
" Reduce tight coupling and direct dependence on shared databases.
" Build independently deployable services with clear ownership and well-defined interfaces.
" Analyze legacy code, database dependencies, data flows and hidden business rules.
" Move hard-coded rules into governed, testable and reusable capabilities.
" Establish clear ownership for data, services and business decisions.
" Create secure APIs and event-driven integrations where appropriate.
" Reduce duplicate data, manual reconciliation and unnecessary copies of sensitive information.
" Plan and execute gradual migrations, parallel validation and controlled cutovers.
" Implement role-based access, audit logging, monitoring, performance controls and secure coding practices.
" Write automated tests and participate in design reviews, code reviews and production support.
" Create technical documentation and mentor engineers in modern engineering practices.
" Use AI-assisted tools for analysis, coding, testing and documentation while validating output and protecting sensitive data.
Required Qualifications
" Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
" 8 or more years of hands-on software development experience.
" Strong experience with a modern server-side programming language, REST APIs and SQL.
" Experience modernizing legacy applications or decomposing tightly connected systems.
" Knowledge of distributed systems, asynchronous processing and integration architecture.
" Experience with secure development, automated testing, continuous delivery and production support.
" Ability to analyze complex workflows, data dependencies and unfamiliar codebases.
" Strong collaboration with architects, analysts, QA and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
" Experience in healthcare, diagnostics, genomics or laboratory operations.
" Experience applying domain-driven design and the strangler modernization pattern.
" Knowledge of API versioning, event or message patterns, retries, idempotency and recovery.
" Experience moving from shared-database architectures to owned services and data domains.
" Knowledge of authentication, role-based access, audit logging and observability.
" Experience with containers, cloud platforms and performance engineering.
" Experience modernizing regulated systems through gradual migration and controlled cutover.
Leadership Competencies
" Architecture-minded engineering
" Hands-on technical leadership
" Systems analysis and problem solving
" Security and quality ownership
" Collaboration and mentoring
" Pragmatic modernization