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Overview

Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries.

Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry’s use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization.

Certara is seeking a senior scientific leader to serve as a market-facing authority bridging our scientific innovations with customer needs and industry adoption. This role is primarily responsible for external engagement, scientific storytelling, and translating real-world insights into actionable input for product and commercial strategy.

As a Engineering Manager, you will be an active practitioner with a human/organizational specialty. You will have achieved (at some point in their career) the senior level or higher in one of the engineering or test disciplines. Your expertise in software development and commitment to delivering high-quality, compliant solutions for our customers will guide your day to day. You will work with a variety of technologies and frameworks to complete tasks in an efficient manner. You will collaborate with cross functional teams to drive innovative solutions in an agile environment. You will mentor and advise your director reports to maximize their impact.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the performance, health, and growth of team members

Preempt distractions to engineering productivity

Onboarding of new employees

Regular 1:1 meetings with all reports to establish goals, develop growth plans, and provide and collect feedback - Maintain visibility into the work of direct reports

Be a flexible resource to the team and its members - Deliver outcomes for all aspects of a software product

Establishes and enforces standards across the assigned areas of influence

Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization

Able to identify and anticipate risks across an entire project and communicate them broadly and pro actively to the appropriate audiences

Provides leadership, mentoring, and guidance at all organizational levels and across multiple job functions

Demonstrates best practices and guides lower levels through example

Has end-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompass more than their own development - Develops adoption plans for new tools or features of already-adopted technologies

Curious by nature and identifies opportunities for innovation

Keeps current on cutting-edge technologies and educates others on them

Demonstrates knowledge of strategic thinking, design, and systems development

Analyzes engineering efforts to determine risks or sensitivities

Adaptable to changing needs

Qualifications

8+ years of experience as a software engineer

Experience working in a highly collaborative agile software organization

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.