Technical Lead

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and AgroScience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

Technical Lead

Coimbatore, India

Europe / Nearshore Delivery (hybrid with collaboration across UK, Europe and offshore delivery centres)

As a Technical Lead, you will play a key role within the eLIMS-Forensics programme, supporting delivery of enterprise systems across Forensic Case Management, LIMS and Expert Reporting platforms.

This role operates within a complex, regulated forensic environment and combines software architecture, hands-on development, and delivery leadership. You will work with the core Qualitype team (based in Dresden, DE), operational SMEs, solution architects and distributed development teams across the UK, Europe, nearshore and offshore locations.

The position focuses on full lifecycle delivery including technical design, implementation, system evolution and automation, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable and aligned with forensic operational processes and compliance requirements.

Own and contribute to architecture and development of enterprise Java applications

Provide technical guidance on design and implementation across distributed teams

Support modernisation and evolution of legacy forensic systems

Ensure scalable, maintainable and high-performance solutions

Share knowledge and support capability development across nearshore and offshore teams

Collaborate with product, QA, DevOps and architecture stakeholders

Software Engineering & Full-Stack Development

Develop enterprise applications across client and server components

Work with:

Java 11 / Java 17

Java EE / Jakarta EE

Eclipse RCP, SWT & JFace (rich client applications)

WildFly Application Server

Support modularisation of legacy systems and development of new platforms

Implement integration and high-performance processing logic

Define software architecture for enterprise applications

Apply object-oriented design and design patterns (SOLID, Clean Code)

Support modular system design and decomposition

Contribute to technical concept design and implementation

Design and optimise backend services and data models

PostgreSQL

JPA / Hibernate

JPQL / CriteriaBuilder

Ensure scalability, integrity and performance of data-intensive systems

Work within Git-based development processes

Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps

Manage containerised environments (Docker)

Use Maven / Eclipse Tycho for build management

Implement automated build, deployment and release processes

Ensure high code quality through testing and best practices

Perform performance profiling and optimisation (JVM tuning)

Support production stability and continuous improvement

Work closely with QA for test coverage and release quality

Work within Agile / Scrum delivery teams

Collaborate across UK, Europe, nearshore and offshore delivery centres

Support team mobilisation, onboarding, training and knowledge transfer

Act as a technical interface between business and IT teams

Java (11 / 17)

Java EE / Jakarta EE

Eclipse RCP, SWT, JFace

PostgreSQL

WildFly Application Server

Enterprise software architecture

Object-oriented development

Clean Code and Design Patterns

Modularisation of applications

Legacy system evolution

JPA / Hibernate

JPQL / CriteriaBuilder

Git / Git-based workflows

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Maven / Eclipse Tycho

Automated build and release processes

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Extensive experience (10yr ++) in enterprise Java development and DevOps practices

Proven experience in architecture and hands-on development

Experience working in regulated or complex operational environments (Forensics, LIMS, etc.)

Strong collaboration skills across distributed delivery teams

Required Qualifications:

Customer-service oriented with a problem-solving attitude;

Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential;

Entrepreneurial thinking and flexibility to change;

Very good English communication skills (concise writing and orally convincing);

Structured and clear writing skills;

Proven ability to solve complex business problems using analytical reasoning;

Demonstrated positive attitude, self-motivated, team player.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL CRITERIA: Eurofins has a strong focus on Performance Management system. This includes quarterly calibrations, half-yearly reviews and annual reviews. The KPIs shall be set and may vary slightly between projects. These will be clearly communicated, documented during the first 30 days of your joining.