Senior Software Engineer

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What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

This position works closely with the Enterprise System Architect and Network Support group. The group develops, maintains, and troubleshoots the technology and applications that drive the operational needs for AMEA and China region. This role is also responsible for identifying problems within programs, creating, and implementing solutions and keeping the technical architecture running as smoothly and effectively as possible.

• Create architecture and design proposals at the subsystem level and provide inputs to product-level architecture.
• Lead investigation and resolution of technical problems within department, with oversight.
• Provide recommendations for risk mitigation in area of responsibility and at critical interfaces to other teams.
• Understand the relationship of project work to departmental goals.
• Enforce database development standards and processes, including naming, coding, database security, data access, and documentation.
• Able to produce required documents for new and existing manufacturing systems in a well‑explained and concise way.
• Evaluate business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Mentor supporting engineers on technical skills in one's area of expertise.

Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in technical roles in software development preferably in web and having completed at least 3 software development life cycles.
• Good background in web development.
• Experience in API communication standards using XML and/or JSON.
• Framework & development experience - strong technical foundation in Node.js / Express / NestJS (JavaScript / Type Script), Angular and modern full stack experience. .NET (C#) is an added advantage.
• Database design in Microsoft SQL with ability to write optimized queries or stored procedures.
• Good understanding of software development principles, programming languages, and software architecture.
• Experience with Version Management tool such as Git Hub.
• Ability to provide guidance, feedback to help the team build up the technical skills. Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies and share with the team, and able to help peers on analyzing and solving system performance problems.
• Experience managing projects, coordinating tasks, and working with other teams or stakeholders to deliver good quality large‑scale systems.
• Able to contribute and propose suitable technologies to improve the stability and scalability of the system. Fluent with functional, imperative and object‑oriented languages would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of data processing, hardware platform and enterprise software applications would be advantageous.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaborate with others as part of a highly skilled team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and possess logical and analytical skills with attention to details.
• Possess a positive attitude and sense of urgency to meet deadlines and handle multiple priorities.
• Proactive and have the initiative to drive and get things done ahead of plan.
• Performi…