Architect

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With annual revenues of $10 billion, we have more than 30,000 employees and serve over 350,000 customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as environmental and industrial process control settings. Serving customers through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, we help solve analytical challenges from routine testing to complex research and discovery. Thermo Scientific offers customers a complete range of high-end analytical instruments as well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable integrated laboratory workflow solutions. Fisher Scientific provides a complete portfolio of laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies and services used in healthcare, scientific research, safety and education. Together, we offer the most convenient purchasing options to customers and continuously advance our technologies to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, enhance value for customers and fuel growth for shareholders and employees alike. All of our employees share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement. Our ability to grow year after year is driven by our ability to attract, develop and retain world-class people who will thrive in our environment and share in our desire to improve mankind by enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. If you share in our values and if you're looking for an employer who is strongly committed to developing talent and rewarding achievement, come grow with us at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Job Description Architect The Architect should provide overall technical direction and technical leadership to the organization.  The Architect should be the Technical Lead in designing, building, testing, implementing and maintaining applications to meet specific company business requirements.  The Architect is responsible for gathering, evaluating and refining client requirements, translating those requirements into detailed designs, writing code to meet the requirements of the designs and testing that code.1. Lead software development by estimating, planning, designing, coding and implementing distributed Web software.2. Define overall technical architecture & roadmap.3. Formalize application architecture strategy.4. Develop and own application architecture standards, policies and procedures.5. Ensure relevant policies and procedures are well understood by the development organization and fully integrated into day-to-day procedures.6. Perform prototyping and initiate application development efforts.7. Guide developers by contributing to and enforcing best practices.8. Manage source code versioning and release schedule.9. Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems.10.  Stay on top of industry changes and drive innovation.11.  Work with end users to understand, qualify and challenge business requirements.12.  Design and write highly modular and loosely coupled code for maximum reuse and extendibility. Code created should be well documented and follow department standards.13.  Create and execute test cases and ensure testing effectively validates that systems meet the functional and non-functional requirements.14.  Work in a fast paced continual learning environment.  This requires ongoing education (independent and structured) with the ability to quickly adapt and learn new technologies to solve business issues.Perform other duties as assigned. Education: BachelorsJob Level: Experienced