Senior Clinical Trial Web Application Developer

Everest Clinical Research (“Everest”) is a full-service contract research organization (CRO) providing a broad range of expertise-based clinical research services to worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. We serve some of the best-known companies and work with many of the most advanced drugs, biologics, and medical devices in development today.

Everest has been an independent CRO since 2004 with a strong foundation as a statistical and data management center of excellence. Building on this foundation, Everest has successfully developed and established itself as a full-service CRO. Everest’s headquarters are located in Markham (Greater Toronto Area), Ontario, Canada with additional sites in Bridgewater (Greater New York City Area), New Jersey, USA, Shanghai (Pudong Zhangjiang New District), China and Taipei, Taiwan.

Everest is known in the industry for its high quality deliverables, superior customer service, and flexibility in meeting clients’ needs. A dynamic organization with an entrepreneurial origin, Everest continues to experience exceptional growth and great success.

Quality is our backbone, customer-focus is our tradition, flexibility is our strength…that’s us…that’s Everest.

To drive continued success in this exciting clinical research field, we are seeking committed, skilled, and customer-focused individuals to join our winning team as a Senior Clinical Trial Web Application Developer for our Brightech location in Taipei, Taiwan with opportunities to work remotely (or hybrid) in accordance with our Work from Home policy.

Key Accountabilities:

• Responsible for the design, development, unit testing, systems testing, maintenance, and deployment of custom-built Java web applications and mobile compatible web applications to meet established client and system requirements.
• Work closely with clients and cross-functional team members to understand business and technical requirements that drive the analysis and design of technical solutions.
• Provide client support and consultation for development, integration, and advice in areas of expertise. Perform unit-level testing of system components and fix bugs.
• Develop, review, and document technical specifications to ensure completeness. This includes database schema designs, integration specifications, development and deployment procedures, and configurations.
• Develop detailed design of application components and write maintainable, high-quality code in a timely fashion.
• Provide code maintenance and support across testing/validation cycles and post-production deployment.
• Participate in user training and demonstrations of web application products on an as-needed basis.
• Support project estimating/planning processes. Ensure adherence to system development lifecycle standards.
• Identify functional and technical application enhancements based on client feedback, internal reviews, and industry leading practices and help to prioritize, plan, and execute ongoing enhancements for the continuous improvements of the system/product.
• Participate in the evaluation, implementation, and documentation of existing and new web-based business solutions.
• Contribute to the architectural design and development of a modern, strategic web-based application infrastructure.
• Support special web development and Information Technology (IT) initiatives: Web User Interface re-design and re-fresh; evaluation and upgrade of server operating systems, hardware and application/software requirements; implementation of improved encryption standards for communications to and from secure server applications; optimization of web security infrastructure for user authentication; and authorization to controlled components.
• Develop software development process frameworks and tools (including change control, quality assurance procedures) using leading practices, design patterns, and methodologies.
• Develop and perform database design, modeling, and database maintenance.
• Identify and implement security measures for mobile and web applications infrastructure.
• Perform system validation requirements and procedures for mobile and web applications.
• Mentor, train, and provide guidance to new web application developers on the procedures and best practices related to CTT web applications development.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related fields.
• Eight or more years of experience in relevant field.
• Experience with architecture and design patterns, including developing re-usable, extendable, and modular web-based solutions.
• Understanding and applying J2EE security, Concurrency, Transactions, Session Management, J2EE Patterns, and Frameworks to application solutions based on past experience.
• Broad experience with various computing platforms (e.g., Windows, Unix, Linux, Tomcat).
• Requirements gathering and analysis apply SDLC methodologies.
• Testing methodologies including unit test, web testing, functional and technical testing, User Acceptance Testing, and performance and load testing.