Summary of Position:

Alcon is looking to hire Software Engineer - Tools and Processes for R&D team. As part of the Software Tools and Processes team, you will enable the global Alcon Surgical Instrumentation Software team to develop products with quality and agility. You will do this by creating world class tools and processes. Often this will require custom software app development. At other times, it will call for sourcing of new or reconfiguration of existing tools, and at other times, this will call for improvements to procedures and practices. In any case, you will be expected to consider and utilize a full range of possible solutions to any problem. Close collaboration with multiple stakeholders and a detailed understanding of the needs of multiple product software development teams at multiple sites around the world is required. Furthermore, to be successful, ingenuity in devising general purpose solutions for multiple teams and products, as well as a continuous interest in learning is needed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be an integral part of the Software Tools and Procedures team that enables Alcon to develop Surgical Instrumentation Software with quality and agility.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
• Develop and review code.
• Learn government and Alcon regulations and standards.
• Participate in ideation and agile events.
• Serve as Product Owner or Scrum Master of tools.
• Review code and define and promote coding quality standards and best practices.
• Write technical documentation.

Key Requirements/Minimum Qualifications:

• Programming experience in C# and/or other similar languages.
• Scripting and markup experience in JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL, YAML, XML, and/or other similar languages.
• Experience with Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure DevOps, Atlassian tools, and similar tool sets.
• Database design principles.
• Understanding of basic computer science concepts. Preferred experience: Container technologies, Git and Jenkins.
• Experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile development, DevOps, Scrum, and SAFe.

Work hours: 1 PM to 10 PM IST

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