Director, Engineering

About ValGenesis  ValGenesis is a leading digital validation platform provider for life sciences companies. ValGenesis suite of products are used by 30 of the top 50 global pharmaceutical and biotech companies to achieve digital transformation, total compliance and manufacturing excellence/intelligence across their product lifecycle.    Learn more about working for ValGenesis, the de facto standard for paperless validation in Life Sciences: https://www.valgenesis.com/about

About the Role:

About ValGenesis  ValGenesis is a leading digital validation platform provider for life sciences companies. ValGenesis suite of products are used by 30 of the top 50 global pharmaceutical and biotech companies to achieve digital transformation, total compliance and manufacturing excellence/intelligence across their product lifecycle.    Learn more about working for ValGenesis, the de facto standard for paperless validation in Life Sciences: https://www.valgenesis.com/about

About the Role:

Responsibilities: • Responsible for architecture, design, development, quality and performance engineering of one or more enterprise software products.

• Provide technical and strategic leadership for one or more enterprise product engineering teams.

• Ensure quality of one or more product/application code bases and alignment with development standards.

• Development of highly complex cloud native applications, interfaces and integration with other systems.

• Lead/Own the complete development life cycle with agile principles for the respective products.

• Review and recommend changes to the architecture/design/code.

• Head the development of enterprise platform and application features/services with micro services, micro frontend patterns, using Azure cloud services, C# .NET Core, ReactJS, PostGres etc, implementing AI-DevSecOps principles.

• Own and be accountable for the Performance, Scalability, Reliability and Sustainability of the respective enterprise platform/products.

• Guide the POCs/Technical Solution Approach using the combination of open source, closed source, commercial technology/toolset.

• Evaluate and recommend software development tools.

• Strive for self-excellence along with managing, coaching/mentoring, enabling success of the development/engineering teams.

 

Requirements: • 12+ years of product development experience with enterprise grade products

• 6+ years of hands-on and strategic experience in leading cloud native product engineering teams

• Extensive experience with C#, .NET Core, Azure Cloud Services and DevOps

• Working knowledge of the JS frameworks – React, TypeScript etc

• Proven experience in automating development lifecycle using combination of AI tools - Claude + CoPilot + MCP

• Strong experience in Micro-Services and/or Micro-Frontend architecture

• Strong experience in container-based development, AKS, Service Fabric etc

• Strong experience in messaging queue systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka

• Experience in architecting, building event driven and distributed software applications using cloud native services – preferably Azure

• Strong experience in Relational and No-SQL databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MS SQL Server

• Preferable experience in integrating LLMs, vector databases, RAG into production apps

• Experience in owning/driving end to end development of multiple products/solutions (incl testing, performance testing, deployment)

• Strong knowledge of implementing Code Quality, Code Monitoring, Performance Engineering, Test Automation Tools

• Experience in coaching/guiding/leading one or more teams of full stack engineers

• Experience working with cross-functional teams - Product Management, Quality, Exec leadership

 

 

We’re on a Mission In 2005, we disrupted the life sciences industry by introducing the world’s first digital validation lifecycle management system. ValGenesis VLMS® revolutionized compliance-based corporate validation activities and has remained the industry standard. Today, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation ― enhancing and expanding our portfolio beyond validation with an end-to-end digital transformation platform. We combine our purpose-built systems with world-class consulting services to help every facet of GxP meet evolving regulations and quality expectations.

The Team You’ll Join Our customers’ success is our success. We keep the customer experience centered in our decisions, from product to marketing to sales to services to support. Life sciences companies exist to improve humanity’s quality of life, and we honor that mission.​ We work together. We communicate openly, support each other without reservation, and never hesitate to wear multiple hats to get the job done. We think big. Innovation is the heart of ValGenesis. That spirit drives product development as well as personal growth. We never stop aiming upward. We’re in it to win it. We’re on a path to becoming the number one intelligent validation platform in the market, and we won’t settle for anything less than being a market leader.​

How We Work Our Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore offices are onsite, 5 days per week. We believe that in-person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, and a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company.  ValGenesis is an equal-opportunity employer that makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Our goal is to have the best-qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics protected by local law.