Engineering Specialist, R&D SW

This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives.

Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride.

Your Role at Baxter Provides enterprise-level technical leadership for cloud shared services and related connected-care ecosystems. Collaborates with engineering, product, and business leaders to shape long-term architectural strategy, establish technical standards, and guide the evolution of secure, cloud-native services that support multiple products, regions, and business domains. Serves as a senior technical leader for distributed systems, GraphQL and API architecture, multi-region cloud strategy, service interoperability, scalability, security, resiliency, observability, SOC 2 readiness, and operational excellence.

Partners closely with executive leadership, product management, cybersecurity, quality, regulatory, operations, and engineering teams to align technology investments, architectural decisions, and platform capabilities with business objectives and sustained growth.

Define and drive the long-term architecture vision, technical roadmap, governance standards, and cloud-native platform strategy for CSA in partnership with engineering and business stakeholders. Collaborate with architects, engineering leaders, and cross-functional teams to guide enterprise-wide architectural decisions across products, services, and engineering organizations. Lead the design and governance of scalable service, API, and integration architectures across GraphQL, REST, event-driven systems, and microservices, building alignment around architectural best practices.

Partner with engineering and operations teams to establish and evolve multi-region cloud strategies that support high availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, scalability, data residency, and operational readiness. Champion modernization initiatives across Kubernetes, platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code, automated delivery pipelines, event streaming, and cloud-native technologies. Collaborate with cybersecurity, quality, regulatory, and engineering teams to define and implement security and compliance architecture standards, including SOC 2 readiness, identity and access management, encryption, secure software supply chains, and healthcare data protection requirements.

Facilitate architecture governance through reviews, standards, reference patterns, technical decision frameworks, and proactive management of architectural risk and technical debt. Influence executive stakeholders, mentor senior technical leaders, and partner across engineering, product, security, quality, regulatory, audit, and operations teams to advance organizational architecture maturity, innovation, and technical excellence.

18+ years of progressive software engineering experience with deep expertise in enterprise architecture, technical leadership, cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, microservices, and mission-critical service architectures. Proven experience designing and governing scalable API ecosystems, including GraphQL, REST,…