Security Developer II at Novo Nordisk

Plainsboro, NJ

About the Job

About the Department

The Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

Security Developer II will support the Global Security Operations mission with Global Information Security. They leverage their professionalism, technical knowledge, and positive attitude to solve complex technical challenges. The developer in this role must gather and track stakeholder requirements. They will use knowledge of architecture and development patterns for on premise systems and public cloud to design and deliver solutions to meet requirements.

The Security Developer II will have a primary emphasis on one area at a time, but example areas may include: Metrics and reporting through maintenance of data connections, data warehousing, and reporting within BI Platforms. Data analytics, detections, and automation through SIEM/SOAR content development and maintenance

These functions require building and maintaining interfaces between enterprise applications, infrastructure, and security systems such as ServiceNow, Qlik, PowerBI, AWS, Azure, Anomali, Splunk, Trellix, and Tenable products.

The Developer will record, track, and maintain their work items within a work management system such as Azure DevOps.

Relationships

Reports directly to the manager of Global Security Operations – Security Analytics and Automation. Will support Global Security Operations strategic goals alongside peers in New Jersey, Denmark, and India. These relationships include specialists, architects, operations teams, application management teams, and project managers.

This role will interface routinely with key stakeholders including GSO management, senior security operations personnel, as well as third party technology service providers.

Essential Functions

Analyzes and fulfills business needs:
Recognizes and responds to stakeholder needs and ensures commitments are delivered upon
Uses knowledge of the assigned business function to identify business needs and develop value-added solutions
Assists with identifying opportunities for enhancements and bug fixes
Estimates effort accurately ahead of projects
Uses all available vendor services and open sources to solve problems with code and applications

Develops and maintains systems, applications and infrastructure:

Leverages knowledge of patterns in systems architecture

Applies strong knowledge of programming and scripting with languages such as JavaScript, C#, and Python to automate routine tasks and enhance data collection

Applies query languages such as SQL, M, DAX, Splunk Query Language, etc. in support of development, tuning and enhancements

Scripting and development for security operations projects as needed

Leverages technology principles, knowledge and practices:
Applies product knowledge about major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Office 365, ServiceNow, Salesforce and other dominant public cloud infrastructure
Recognizes common technology stacks and patterns to quickly understand new systems
Applies knowledge of application development standards such as REST, GraphQL and XML to support API integrations with on premise and public cloud services
Uses source code control systems such as SVN and Git
Participates in research and evaluation of new security tools, techniques and technologies
Able to independently learn new technology leveraging documentation, vendor resources and communities and other means of self-learning

Provides technology support and service:

Applies knowledge of centralized logging and security event management best practices

Documents all developed code so it can be understood by others

Provides high quality service to stakeholders by listening to, identifying and addressing stakeholder needs

Understands and applies risk management practices:

Supports the implementation of security policies, procedures, and best practices

Physical Requirements

5% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Engineering or other relevant fields. Relevant experience may be substituted when appropriate

4 years of relevant experience is required

Hands-on software development experience is required

Experience developing with JavaScript, Python, or C# is required

Experience with source code version control systems is required

Experience with API integrations is required

Experience with Qlik Sense, Power BI or SIEM/SOAR platforms is required

Experience with Azure or AWS is required

Experience with common platforms such as Office 365 and ServiceNow is desired

Experience recording and tracking work items in Azure DevOps desired

Experience administering and building complex queries is desired

Experience working in an enterprise scale IT operations environment desired

Experience working in a multinational organization attractive

The ability to effectively communicate in a verbal or written context essential

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.