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.

About Baxter
Baxter provides a broad portfolio of essential renal and hospital products, including home, acute and in-center dialysis; sterile IV solutions; infusion systems and devices; parenteral nutrition; surgery products and anesthetics; and pharmacy automation, software and services. The company’s global footprint and the critical nature of its products and services play a key role in expanding access to healthcare in emerging and developed countries. Baxter’s employees worldwide are building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the next generation of healthcare innovations that enable patient care.

Position Overview

A Senior Principal Engineer for software will be responsible for development of products and providing creative solutions associated with the design, development, and sustaining engineering for our new and existing software product portfolio. The successful candidate will possess solid “hands-on” technical abilities, an excitement and energy for product development, and a passion for their work and the impact it has on meeting the needs of patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the architecture and design of a product, makes architecture and design choices for new product development, sustenance activities, field issue resolution etc.
• Reviews and approves the design of a module/project
• Owns/leads technology strategy and roadmap for one or more product lines
• Demonstrates customer focus by ensuring quality of software releases and timely resolution of field reported issues
• Responsible for analyzing and understanding the product requirements and deriving the Software requirements
• Identifies key product level technical risks and assists project manager in developing mitigation and recovery plan
• Review work products and ensure the quality of deliverables
• Provides input to the test strategies at a product level
• Provides guidance to development and test teams with respect to overall design and development.
• Leads and coaches the team members and play an active role in their development.
• Assess and identify actions to improve the competency (technical/product) of the team.
• Drives the application of principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and testing techniques.
• Owns and drives continuous improvement activities by identifying and appropriately escalating process and product quality gaps.

Qualifications / Experience and/or Background

• Excellent software architecture, design and implementation skills
• Expertise in development and maintenance of Software embedded/distributed systems
• Strong Object-Oriented development and design knowledge and experience
• Deep understanding of technology & software development principles:

  Analysis and Design: Object oriented architecture, Design Patterns

  Programming: C, C++, Python, C# etc

  Development and Continuous Integration: Visual Studio/Eclipse, SVN, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, BitBucket, Jira etc.

  OS: Embedded Linux, VxWorks etc.

• Experience in technically leading project teams involving SW architects and SW design engineers.
• Demonstrated success in delivering results on technical challenges.
• Good understanding of Healthcare domain (regulations and standards) and Medical software development process.

Personal Characteristics

• Excellent communication, inter-personal and leadership skills 
• Firm decision maker and shall possess good influencing skills
• Openness to collaborate in interest of project/organization.
• Proactive and self-driven, possesses due sense of urgency                   
• Shall possess systems mindset and good problem-solving abilities.
• Working with multisite teams, Quality conscious and Process & customer Oriented
• Coaching capabilities.

A Career That Matters

Baxter’s employees are united in a mission to save and sustain lives. We are passionate about applying scientific innovation to meet the needs of the millions of people worldwide who depend on our medically necessary therapies and technologies. We focus on increasing access to healthcare, innovating in crucial areas of unmet need, and pursuing creative collaborations that bring our mission to life for patients every day.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission.

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.

Recruitment Fraud Notice

Baxter has discovered incidents of employment scams, where fraudulent parties pose as Baxter employees, recruiters, or other agents, and engage with online job seekers in an attempt to steal personal and/or financial information. To learn how you can protect yourself, review our Recruitment Fraud Notice.