Senior Developer, Digital Engagement

Parexel is in the business of improving the world’s health. We do this by providing a suite of biopharmaceutical services that help clients across the globe transform scientific discoveries into new treatments. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, our therapeutic, technical, and functional ability is underpinned by a deep conviction in what we do.   We believe in our values; Patients First, Quality, Respect, Empowerment & Accountability.

We have an exciting role for a Senior Developer that we are recruiting due to growth in our Medcom business.  This role is a great opportunity for someone who wishes to work as a full stack developer and have the chance to grow a new team around them.

This role is based remotely from any of our EMEA locations including the UK, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Italy, Romania and Czech Republic.

Project Planning and Delivery

• Demonstrate strong project management capabilities to meet project deadlines, and achieve client milestones and brief on time, within budget and to high levels of quality
• Take responsibility for the development and coding of more complex digital projects
• Attend client briefing calls with the Specialist/Senior Specialist, and input into timelines, providing technical guidance on content whilst maintaining budget expectations
• Ensure proactive communication with the Specialist/Senior Specialist regarding digital development project status

Financial support

• Specific project scoping
• Where requested provide input to the budgeting process, liaising with all relevant parties to help create an appropriate client budget
• Provide input to help support the Director with budget revisions and reconciliations to ensure budget accuracy
• Work with the Specialist/Senior Specialist in the digital team to provide regular forecasting updates for all assigned projects

Supplier Liaison

• When required to, liaise with suppliers to co-ordinate tasks from start through to completion and work within supplier-specific systems, as required
• Provide clear and concise direction to suppliers, with an emphasis on attention to detail, to ensure first-time quality

General

• Maintain a positive, results orientated work environment, building partnerships and modelling teamwork, communicating to the team in an open, balanced manner
• Provide informed support, when necessary, to any of the other key service lines Meetings & Events, Patient Communications, Creative Design, Studio and Production) and support to Scientific and Account teams and Customer Strategy
• Proactively seek and refine new and innovative approaches, solutions, and opportunities to improve project efficiency, results, or team performance

Knowledge and Experience:

• Extensive knowledge of HTML5 (JavaScript, CSS and HTML)
• High level JavaScript knowledge including jQuery
• AJAX and JSON database connectivity and integration
• Comprehensive knowledge of code testing across all devices/browsers and commitment to code quality with experience of unit, integration and automation testing techniques and performance optimization
• Experience of code repositories such as Git Hub or similar
•  Client-facing experience essential
• Healthcare, CRO, Pharmaceutical Industry, Client or MedComs Agency experience essential
• Minimum of 5 years-experience in Digital Engagement
• Beneficial but not essential:
  • WordPress themes, plugin use and bespoke development
  • Other languages: PHP, mySQL/PDO, WebGL(3D), C#, .Net
  • JavaScript frameworks (React or similar)
  • Server-side JavaScript (Node.js)
  • CMS platforms and tools
  • Back-end admin – LAMP (AWS) and/or Microsoft IIS(Azure)
  • Database design and creation

 Education

• Relevant degree and/or equivalent managerial, business development and account management experience as above within the pharmaceutical industry in a similar role is required