Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud Platform

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

Every Exelixis employee is united in an ambitious cause: to launch innovative medicines that give patients and their families hope for the future. In this pursuit, we know our employees are our most valuable asset. After operating in the challenging biotech sector for 25 years, we have a proven track record of resiliency in the face of adversity. The success of our lead product has provided a solid commercial foundation allowing us to reinvigorate our research efforts, and grow our team in areas such as Drug Discovery, Clinical Development and Commercial.

As we expand our global partnerships and further reinvest in R&D to help us discover the next breakthrough for difficult-to-treat cancers, we're seeking to add talented, dedicated employees to power our mission.

Cancer is our cause. Make it yours, too.

SUMMARY/JOB PURPOSE:

This staff role is accountable for architecting and developing integrations to seamlessly connect systems across the enterprise. This individual is responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of a integrations that enables Exelixis users to seamlessly execute business processes by eliminating manual data entry and orchestrating end to end business processes. This individual will have extensive integration design, API engineering and AWS experience, with expertise in development ofthe delivery of integrations as part of a product team. They should also have excellent organization and communication skills. This role offers a remarkable opportunity for an accomplished senior engineer to contribute to the technological advancement within our Exelixis, forging pathways that seamlessly connect technology and business problems. If you are passionate about blazing trails, optimizing the synergy between technology and scientific prowess, and driving transformative change, we warmly invite you to embark on this enlightening journey with us.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure architecture are scalable and promote reuse: Develop a visionary product strategy that adeptly balances people, processes, technology, and data.
• Efficient Delivery of features as a key member of a product team: Manage development, collaborate with other product team members, facilitate and lead design sessions, document best practices, mentor staff engineers
• Learn and keep up to date on the latest integration technologies and design patterns: Originate technological concepts and provide guidance to nurture these concepts into refined, deployable products.
• Develop and promote good engineering practices Manage, review and provide feedback on code as part of a CI/CD team. Development efficient code integration and deployment pipelines
• Execute Agile Methodologies and Product-Centricity: Lead daily scrum meetings, plan new features, stories and remove obstacles

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline and 6 years of related experience; or

• Master's degree in related discipline and 4 years of related experience; or

• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Experience:

• Experience with iterative development, integration architectures, API engineering, Agile methodologies, and with common software development tracking tools such as GitHub, Jira, and Confluence

• Proven experience in developing scalable and resuable systems integrations

• Demonstrated capability delivering large and complex integration initiatives

• Extensive hands-on experience building on AWS Cloud infrastructure including IAM, resource provisioning, networking, and monitoring

• Demonstrate ability to lead requirement and design sessions with stakeholders, drive alignment and decision making

• Experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industries

Knowledge/Skills:

• Proficiency in effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams, characterized by varying backgrounds, personalities, and skill levels.

• Strong customer-facing, oral, written, and verbal communication skills, enabling effective interaction with business partners, stakeholders, and technical staff.

• The ability to define and articulate complex data architectures and processes.

• An aptitude for working autonomously, adapting to changing priorities, and responding to ad-hoc requests with agility.

• In-depth knowledge and hands on experience with Python, DBT, ELT, SQL, AWS Glue, Athena and technologies essential for building scalable data platforms and pipelines.

• Experience managing DBT, Airflow, Terraform, Tableau and related data management technologies

• In-depth understanding of modern data architectures, such as lake houses and data mesh

• In-depth understanding of CI/CD practices and experience implementing them

• Experience with a cloud integration platform such as SAP Integration Suite, MuleSoft or Dell Boomi

• Experience integrating with SAP ERP

• Experience with API management and EDI

• Experience with API design and development

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Environment: primarily working indoors in an office setting

• Work off hours and weekends as required

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The base pay range for this position is $150,000 - $215,000 annually. The base pay range may take into account the candidate's geographic region, which will adjust the pay depending on the specific work location. The base pay offered will take into account the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, experience and internal equity, among other factors.

In addition to the base salary, as part of our Total Rewards program, Exelixis offers comprehensive employee benefits package, including a 401k plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts. Employees are also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus program, or if field sales staff, a sales-based incentive plan. Exelixis also offers employees the opportunity to purchase company stock, and receive long-term incentives, 15 accrued vacation days in their first year, 17 paid holidays including a company-wide winter shutdown in December, and up to 10 sick days throughout the calendar year.

DISCLAIMER

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.