Engineering Lead (remote, m/f/d)

Born from a single question, innovation is in our DNA. Having recently celebrated our 10-year anniversary, we are a diverse and quality-conscious company, which has set itself the goal of transporting temperature-sensitive medicines in a more reliable and sustainable way. Long story short, we help save lives and preserve the environment.

Our goal? To continue to advance towards zero loss in the pharma supply chain, worldwide.

If you are a strategic and technically adept leader with expertise in software integration and team management, capable of driving complex platform migrations, leading interdisciplinary teams, and ensuring seamless delivery of scalable and secure solutions while fostering collaboration and continuous improvement - this could be the role for you:

Here's what you'll do:

• Lead the integration effort of a major new product to an existing software platform
• Build up and lead an interdisciplinary team consisting of analysts, QAs and developers
• Lead change management and team dynamics around a potential merger of teams
• Create and manage a technical roadmap to guide the migration while ensuring new functionalities are implemented
• Conduct a thorough assessment of the existing application, identifying dependencies, integrations, and potential challenges
• Plan and execute the migration of data if required, ensuring data integrity and minimal downtime
• Address technical challenges and make decisions on software architecture, design patterns, and technology stack
• Maintain and support the current and future system through the transition and migration period
• Identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks associated with the migration and operation of both systems
• Analyse and challenge business requirements and translate them into modelling decisions and code
• Establish and enforce coding standards, review code, and oversee testing processes on both platforms
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure code
• Ensure documentation of code, requirements, development processes, testing standards and coverage
• Lead process improvements to enhance team productivity and efficiency
• Conduct and lead regular 1-on-1s and team meetings, performance reviews and annual appraisals

This is what you'll need:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or relevant working experience
• Proficiency in data engineering tools and technologies (SQL, Python, DAX, Spark)
• Ability to develop and implement strategic visions for data architecture and AI capabilities
• Experience with deployment of AI solutions
• Experience with IoT data and telemetry data is a plus
• Prior experience leading and managing data management teams
• Ability to understand business concepts quickly and communicate with stakeholders
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey technical concepts and project updates clearly

What we can offer you:

• Remote working
• Flexible working hours for work/life balance
• Interdisciplinary and varied projects
• Diverse and global work culture/ environment
• Possibility to work for an environmentally conscious company
• Unique opportunity to actively shape processes

Why SkyCell:

We are looking for people who challenge the status quo and thrive on making a difference to people and the world around us. That’s where our SkyMind Cloud Development team play a pivotal role and you could be a part of it.

SkyMind’s Cloud Development team builds a next-generation visibility platform that allows our customers (mainly pharma companies, but also logistics service provider) to monitor the temperature and position of their shipments in real-time. They combine this with sophisticated risk assessment capabilities, alert functionality and simulation models that allow predictions of potential issues, e.g., because a container was forgotten on a runway in Dubai. The team use modern, standard technology, constantly optimize our development processes, and have close and direct interaction with our product management function.

We are Innovative Award Winners:

We’re driven by our core values and guided by our collaborations, purpose, and employees. Our commitment to changing the face of medical supply chains, making them safer, more secure, and more sustainable resonates strongly with every one of our employees; we’re therefore incredibly proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work alongside being awarded a sustainability rating of Platinum by EcoVadis.

If you would like to know more about us, visit www.skycell.ch and search #WeAreSkyCell on LinkedIn.

To become part of our journey and make a difference – click apply and we will be in touch!

Please contact Lucy Slough, Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist if you have any questions (talent@skycell.ch).

SkyCell AG is proud to be an equal opportunities employer, we celebrate and support diversity and are passionate about creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.

For this position we only consider direct applications

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