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Senior individual-contributor role on the
Architecture and Components
team; works alongside a multidisciplinary group (UI, UX, AI Engineering, Full Stack, Architecture) within a globally distributed organization. This role does not manage people.
As BMS Product Development & Supply (PDS) accelerates delivery of digital products and digital workers through Fusion Teams and scales adoption via Intelligence Hub, the organization requires clear ownership of architecture, reusable components, and technical decision-rights.
Organizational Context
The Analytics & AI Enablement (A&AIE) Architecture & Components Team is a highly technical team responsible for defining how digital solutions are built, ensuring they are scalable, operable, and future-ready through PDS Aim Points, with ambitions to revolutionize PDS use of AI by 2030–2035. Rather than delivering individual use cases, this team establishes and stewards the shared architectural foundations and components — including those used for the foundational data pipelines, analytical models, and business-facing reports and dashboards — that enable broad, consistent execution across PDS.
Position Summary
This senior individual-contributor role will architect and build the shared, full-stack platform that powers analytics, digital products, and digital workers across PDS. The role focuses on distributed, multi-service systems that combine an orchestration layer, autonomous agents, shared services, and a federated frontend into a single internal platform-as-a-service — treated as reusable foundations rather than one-off use cases.
You will work end to end, from async backend services and APIs through to modern web frontends, and you will design platforms that go beyond conversational interfaces to deliver autonomous analytical workflows, standardized tool-calling, and composable UI experiences. This is a deeply hands-on, principal-level technical authority role; you set the bar through architecture, reference implementations, and engineering excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Platform & Multi-Service System Architecture
Architect distributed, multi-service platforms that orchestrate work across autonomous services and agents, with conditional routing, parallel execution, and error recovery.
Design the platform as an internal SaaS/PaaS: shared SDKs, service contracts, and reusable components that solution teams consume rather than rebuild.
Build graph-based orchestration workflows combining LLM reasoning, business logic, real-time data integration, and enterprise security patterns.
Create reusable node/component libraries and extensible platform patterns supporting multiple business domains.
Backend Development & API Design
Build production FastAPI (or similar) applications with async I/O patterns for persistence and external services.
Implement Server-Sent Events (SSE) and WebSocket protocols for real-time streaming responses.
Design APIs and event-driven architectures for orchestration and service-to-service communication.
Develop robust error handling, graceful degradation, and enterprise security integration (SSO, access control), deploying containerized services via CI/CD.
Frontend & Unified Experience
Build modern web frontends (e.g., React) and design micro-frontend / Module Federation composition so independently built modules form one coherent experience.
Develop and steward a shared component library and design system used across the platform.
Design AI-enhanced UI patterns for streaming responses, chat, and analytical/canvas visualization.
MCP Development & Dual-Intent Delivery
Make MCP development and hosting a first-class platform capability, ensuring every solution is dual-intent: delivered both as a full-stack web experience and through Claude Desktop.
Design, build, and host production MCP servers that expose platform services and tools so the same underlying capabilities power both the web UI and Claude Desktop, with no divergence between the two surfaces.
Define golden-path patterns, templates, and shared MCP servers (tools, resources, prompts, transport, and authentication) that solution teams reuse to ship dual-intent solutions quickly.
Establish MCP hosting, versioning, security, and operational standards for seamless, enterprise-grade integration with Claude Desktop.
LLM Integration, Orchestration & Tool Calling
Integrate cloud LLM providers (AWS Bedrock or comparable) into platform services.
Design prompt management with versioning, templating, and dynamic compilation.
Implement conversation/state persistence (e.g., Redis checkpointing) for multi-turn workflows.
Build standardized tool-calling that connects agents and external clients to data sources and services, with the Model Context Protocol as the primary integration surface.
Reusability, Observability & Optimization
Treat internal developers as customers: provide golden-path templates, clear contracts, and documentation that accelerate delivery.
Define standards for versioning, contracts, and backward compatibility across the component ecosystem.
Integrate observability and tracing; build monitoring for performance, latency, cost, and quality, and optimize resource and token usage across production workflows.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with cloud, AI, data, and UX engineers on the team to integrate full-stack work with infrastructure, agentic capabilities, and interaction design.
Partner with Enterprise engineering and governance teams to align standards, controls, and shared services.
Provide technical mentorship on solution patterns, system design, and platform best practices, and contribute to architecture reviews and documentation.
Desired Experience | Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, Data Science, or a related field.
6+ years of software engineering experience with deep full-stack delivery, including production experience building LLM-powered or agentic applications.
Strong Python, including async patterns (asyncio, async/await) and Python-based automation.
Production experience with async web frameworks (FastAPI or similar), REST, and event-driven / streaming architectures (WebSocket/SSE, queues, streams).
Strong working knowledge of modern web frontends (React) and micro-frontend / Module Federation composition; deep frontend and design-system expertise a strong plus.
Experience designing distributed, multi-service systems with well-defined contracts between components, and building an internal platform, SaaS/PaaS, or shared developer platform.
Experience with agentic orchestration frameworks (LangGraph preferred; LangChain, CrewAI, Autogen, or similar) and integration with cloud LLM providers (AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, or OpenAI), including onboarding and standardizing these frameworks for solution teams.
Strong platform and cloud depth: Docker and Kubernetes / Amazon EKS, infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation), Git and CI/CD, service mesh, policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper), and production observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) on AWS (Azure and/or GCP a plus).
Experience owning platform governance, security, and self-service onboarding for a shared platform — IAM/SSO, group-based authorization, and policy-as-code — acting as a technical gatekeeper for the teams that consume it.
Critical Platform & Agentic Systems Experience
Built autonomous, multi-step systems performing analytical tasks beyond simple chatbots.
Designed distributed platforms with service orchestration, conditional logic, and state management.
Developed and hosted production MCP servers with demonstrated adoption across capabilities.
Delivered dual-intent solutions where the same services power both a web experience and an LLM/desktop client via MCP.
Implemented standardized tool-calling for external system integration.
Designed shared SDKs/contracts and managed API/contract evolution across many consumers.
Prompt engineering at scale (templating, versioning, optimization) and understanding of agentic design patterns (ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, tool-use agents).
Strong problem-solving, communication, and ability to set technical direction and influence in globally distributed teams.
Ideal Candidates Would Also Have
Prior experience in global life sciences, pharma, or supply chain — especially in Product Development & Supply (PDS).
Experience in regulated environments (GxP, GDPR, PII) and embedding compliance into platform design.
Experience scaling an internal platform across multiple product/domain teams and managing the resulting contract and dependency surface.
Experience working internationally with globally dispersed teams.
Other Qualifications
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority.
Hands-on experience implementing Agentic AI solutions and/or MCP is preferred.
Relevant cloud certification (e.g., AWS) is a plus.
If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.Compensation Overview
New Brunswick - NJ - US: $134,980 - $163,564
The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee’s work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience. Final, individual compensation will be decided based on demonstrated experience.
Eligibility for specific benefits listed on our careers site may vary based on the job and location. For more on benefits, please visit https://careers.bms.com/life-at-bms/.
Benefits
Benefit offerings are subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans in effect at the time and may require enrollment. Our benefits include:
Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.
Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.
Work-life Benefits Include
Paid Time Off
US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees)
Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays
Based on eligibility, additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.
All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown.
Eligibility Disclosure: The summer hours program is for United States (U.S.) office-based employees due to the unique nature of their work. Summer hours are generally not available for field sales and manufacturing operations and may also be limited for the capability centers. Employees in remote-by-design or lab-based roles may be eligible for summer hours, depending on the nature of their work, and should discuss eligibility with their manager. Employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement should consult that document to determine if they are eligible. Contractors, leased workers and other service providers are not eligible to participate in the program.
Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
On-site Protocol
Responsibilities
BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
Supporting People With Disabilities
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