Senior Specialist, Information Technology Bengaluru, Karnataka

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Success Profile What makes a successful Information Technology team member at Baxter? Take a look at some of the top traits we’re looking for and see if you’re a fit. Strategic Business Partner Communicator Curious Results driven Collaborative Problem Solver Senior Specialist, Information Technology Apply Now This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Your Role at Baxter As a Senior Software Engineer / Software Architect, you will provide hands-on technical leadership for critical healthcare product platforms operating in regulated environments. You will define strategic technology direction while actively contributing to software development, modernization initiatives, incident resolution, and continuous service improvement. In this role, you will design and deliver secure, reliable, scalable, and maintainable software solutions; mentor engineering teams; drive technical decision-making; and support production services. Working closely with architecture, engineering, product, quality, validation, infrastructure, security, and delivery teams, you will enable the frequent delivery of business value while ensuring compliance with Good "x" Practice (GxP) requirements, risk management processes, and change control procedures. What You'll be Doing Mentor engineers and promote ownership, accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence, including code quality and maintainability. Establish and apply development standards, coding guidelines, architectural principles, secure development practices, and technical governance. Lead architecture, design, and code reviews. Partner with Product, Quality, Validation, Infrastructure, Security, and business stakeholders to plan, estimate, prioritize, and deliver compliant releases from concept through production. Support global business-critical applications by leading complex troubleshooting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and remediation efforts, while driving resilience improvements, observability, monitoring, performance optimization, and continuous service improvement. Ensure development and release activities meet applicable Good "x" Practice (GxP), quality, security, and validation requirements, including governance, change control, risk management, and audit and inspection readiness. Use and promote AI-assisted engineering practices responsibly to improve software development, code reviews, documentation, analysis, testing, and modernization efforts, while validating outputs and applying appropriate governance, risk controls, and human oversight. What You'll Bring Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent country-specific qualification) is preferred. Candidates with 12+ years of relevant professional experience may also be considered. Advanced practical knowledge of software engineering principles, object-oriented design, design patterns, application architecture, and secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices. Strong commercial experience with C#/.NET, Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), modern web technologies, Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces (REST APIs), SQL, and relational database design. Experience designing, developing, and supporting web applications and distributed systems, including ASP.NET solutions, JavaScript, HTML, CSS front-end technologies, authentication and identity management solutions, and API integrations. Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS), cloud-native architecture, infrastructure and application hosting models, monitoring and observability practices, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), DevOps principles, and cloud security controls. Proven ability to lead and mentor engineers, influence technical direction, communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, resolve complex problems, and make pragmatic decisions that balance short-term delivery needs with long-term sustainability. Experience driving technical improvements and supporting critical production applications throughout the software delivery lifecycle while operating within structured governance, risk management, release management, and change control processes. Practical experience using AI-assisted software development tools responsibly, including evaluating output quality, identifying inaccuracies or potential risks, and applying appropriate engineering judgment to ensure secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions. Equal Employment Opportunity Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic. Reasonable Accommodations Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please click on the link here and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information. Recruitment Fraud Notice Baxter has discovered incidents of employment scams, where fraudulent parties pose as Baxter employees, recruiters, or other agents, and engage with online job seekers in an attempt to steal personal and/or financial information. To learn how you can protect yourself, review our Recruitment Fraud Notice . Apply Now Address Explore this location Tower A, 4th and 5th Floor Prestige Shantiniketan Campus,Whitefield Bangalore- 560 048 Karnātaka India Explore This Location Share LinkedIn Facebook X Email Hear from Our Employees Our company is enriched by a diverse population of individuals in more than 100 countries that work to solve, innovate, manufacture and drive better healthcare options for patients around the world. Meet Anchal Tayal, Principal Software Engineer, India “I am proud to be associated with a company whose mission is to Save and Sustain lives. As a Principal Engineer, my key responsibility is to design and implement the new product features in the most efficient, effective, and maintainable way. These products are designed to empower our patients worldwide. It has been an exciting journey so far full of learnings and a sense of satisfaction in what we do and how it impacts lives.” Meet Jorge Ramirez, Senior Specialist - Mexico “Technical skills are really important, but in my case, Baxter helped me in developing soft skills like leadership, work ethic, problem-solving, adaptability, and communication. I’ve learned this by following the example of my manager and some other valuable people. Baxter was the first company that offered me a career plan since the beginning, that was a game changer for me.” Meet Malgorzata Grzesik, Senior Project Manager, USA “I feel that everything that I know at work, I learned it from others. We have amazing people from all over the world with different backgrounds, whom I get to work with and learn from every day. I am part of an organization where developing new skills and growing professionally are welcomed and embraced. I ha