Senior Software Developer Transformation Engineering

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