EMES Developer - Senior Principal Engineer

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits.

This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

Summary:

Responsible for development, maintenance, and support of the global Enterprise Manufacturing Execution Systems (EMES) solution that is utilized globally across the digital manufacturing network to produce medicine.

The EMES Developer’s scope is EMES core platform, components, interfaces, custom tools, and any customizations that support digital manufacturing systems and operations including:

• ·        Material and Inventory modules
• ·        Order management
• ·        Equipment and instrument integration
• ·        Sample management
• ·        Patient scheduling system integration
• ·        Label printing
• ·        General automatic recipe functionality
• ·        Custom business recipe capabilities
• ·        Batch reporting and analytics
• Specific Responsibilities: Partner with IT and Business teams to understand requirements and develop solutions.
• Design, build, test and deliver standard and custom EMES capabilities to the global manufacturing network.
• Provide support of the EMES solution to minimize disruption to manufacturing and/or impact to product.
• Support administration of the central EMES development and test systems, with oversight over site EMES development, test, and production systems
• Contribute to knowledge management strategy through content generation and mentoring.
• Identity and execute on opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Promote compliance with data integrity and computer system validation requirements and regulations.
• Promote compliance by understanding change and the impact to the validated state of the application and underlying infrastructure.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science (preferred) or related fields
• 10+ years’ experience in the Life Sciences industry, with at least 8 years’ experience in MES
• At least 5 years’ direct experience designing, building, deploying and supporting automation and execution systems (Syncade, DeltaV, PI Data historian, etc.) in regulated manufacturing environments.
• Strong domain expertise in the application of IT to manufacturing, including a broad understanding of processes and how they are supported by IT tools and systems.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory landscape and demonstrated experience with software validation.
• Proven track record of successful IT/automation solution delivery
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using VBScript, PowerShell, Python, or JavaScript.
• Strong skills in SQL Server, including query optimization, complex querying, and database administration.
• Knowledge of message-oriented middleware and event-driven systems, including MSMQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
• Experience in Enterprise System Integration, preferably involving SAP, LIMS, and MES platforms
• Ability to work across global sites and cultures.
• Optional travel up to 5% domestically and internationally
• We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.