IT Application Development and Delivery - Finance & Medical Affairs

Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

This is WhereWe Save and Sustain Lives

About Us: Baxter's Mission:

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. Regardless of your role at Baxter, your work has a positive impact on people around the world. You'll experience a sense of purpose throughout the organization as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter products and therapies are found in nearly every hospital around the world, in clinics and at home. For more than 85 years, we have pioneered important medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives, where your purpose accelerates our mission

Your role at Baxter.

Main objective of the position:

This role is responsible for supporting the development of technical solutions for the domain scope area. This role will also act as System Owners for applications/platforms assigned to the candidate in his/her specific domain. This includes analyzing requirements, tracking development progress, and ensuring that the product meets customer needs and expectations.  The role includes ongoing ownership and support of the applications after implementation.

Your team:

At Baxter, our team values speed, agility, courage, and collaboration. We offer autonomy and a flexible work environment. Come join our team!

What you'll be doing

• Collaborate with Product Owner, Business Analysts, and other IT functions on medium and large sized system enhancements and projects to translate business requirements into technical designs that are globally scalable and resilient.
• Help develop test scenarios/scripts and execute testing, obtaining objective evidence that meets each test.
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures to standardize tasks for consistency in operations.
• Work with 3rd party, other IT teams, and/or business partner when issues are found; manage issues to closure.
• Helps create, manage, and enforce IT Controls, validation and change control, policies, and procedures.  Ensure completion of Technical and Quality Documentation to ensure compliance with best practices, standards and policies. Perform Release Execution, Planning and Delivery and manage conflicts. Ensure best practices are followed during release flow and branching. Put together work plans, track project work. Independently manage own work.
• Serve as product engineer for agile or SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) based project teams.
• Communicate status, solutions, and concerns. Disseminate information in a timely manner within the team.
• Perform tasks with minimum direction, independently manage complex problems, guide others.
• Support EA in analyzing Applications capabilities and drive standardization among application in his\her domain portfolio.
• Alert and escalate technical issues and concerns to Project Lead, Functional Lead and Architect.
• PoC and technical demos for exceptional requirements
• Ensure project delivery on-time and within scope.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• 7 years experience in solution development in their scope area, and excellent analytical skills.
• Experience in application development with end-to-end global implementation.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum techniques and tools like JIRA.
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as AutoRabit, Jenkins, Bitbucket.
• Experience in SharePoint backend workflow and logic creation a plus.
• In-depth knowledge of the software development life cycle, including design, development, testing, code review, and release
• Strong communication (verbal/written/listening) skills and attention to detail.
• Detail-oriented and able to work within a team setting
• Experience working with and/or driving remote teams across continents and time zones.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Management of stakeholders and their expectations
• Ability to work with cross-functional matrixed teams to deliver on a common goal.
• Working knowledge of lean product principles and strong knowledge of software development lifecycle and IT compliance
• Foundational project management skills (projects involving internal and external stakeholders) with the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
• Experience related to Software as Service (SaaS)
• Experience with ITSM Process; experience with Service Now or Jira is preferred.

Competencies:

• Communication.
• Focus on clientele.
• Motivation and development of others
• Self-management
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving.
• Management of ambiguity.

Reasonable Accommodations

Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please click on the link here and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.

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