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IQVIA Staff Engineer, Software Development, Analytics Center of Excellence in Durham, North Carolina
The Analytics Center of Excellence
Our Analytics Center of Excellence (Analytics COE) harnesses our global healthcare insights, working closely with our clinical and therapeutic experts to power evidence-driven design, speed site activation and recruit the right patients, faster. We are using big data and advanced analytics to derive insights that transform clinical development and bring new medicines to patients faster through successful trial delivery.
This multi-functional team is an innovation for our business, requiring entrepreneurial and independent thinking to build our capability. Unique and with a global view, this Center of Excellence is a chance to revolutionize the clinical research industry.
Staff Engineer – The Role
As one of our most senior engineers, you will lead the design and development of data science applications, aimed at supporting clinical trials business, including optimizing design and execution of clinical trials, and improving risk management.
You will be a hands-on technical leader, providing architecture and shaping coding standards. You also will evangelize best practices for software engineering including design, development, and lifecycle maintenance, and will partner with multiple software engineering teams to encourage practices like code reusability / shared libraries, UX driven design, and a culture of continuous improvement.
As a Staff Engineer you will mentor senior engineers, sharing best practices and learning together across all disciplines of our work. You will meet frequently with stakeholders, product managers, engineering managers, data scientists, and other individual contributor engineers to understand a wide array of technical and business impacting variables, and distil these into strategic and tactical choices that our engineering teams will use to develop and improve software products for our customers.
Along with working across the product portfolio to support multiple scrum teams, you will also be expected to work with external customers either as a consultant or as a solution engineer.
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*Your typical activities will include: *
Consistently deliver robust, high-quality, reliable engineering outcomes in cross functional autonomous scrum teams
Lead security assessments and product readiness evaluation
Lead cross-team exercises including strategic planning, developing prototypes aimed at supporting multiple products and knowledge sharing
Research current and emerging industry tools and techniques, and share these findings with engineers and managers
Drive curiosity and innovation
Advise ACOE engineering managers and individual contributors on best practices and standards for selection, implementation, and support of engineering technologies
Create partnerships with engineers and leaders from other organizations inside IQVIA
Demonstrate thought leadership by contributing subject matter expertise and driving new initiatives
Advise engineering teams on architecture approaches
Encourage cross-domain collaboration among engineers and engineering managers in multiple disciplines (software engineering, test engineering, and site reliability engineering)
Together with product managers, identify the impact of business requirements on technical requirements and delivery effort/timelines
Learn ACOE’s products and operating environments, identify opportunities for improvement, and build consensus among ACOE engineering leadership and individual contributors to achieve those goals
Qualification:
8+ years of relevant collaborative software development experience
2+ years full time engineering roles in at least four companies
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals
Expert familiarity with multiple programming languages, including Python and JavaScript. The candidate can be stronger in one but familiarity of both is required
Experience designing applications using a microservice-oriented architecture
Knowledge of Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform
Prior experience as an engineering leader
Demonstrated in-depth understanding of product development lifecycle
Experience with enterprise architecture, specifically the design and implementation of software solutions that integrate multiple systems
Demonstrated aptitude for and interest in peer mentorship
Growing ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences at a mix of levels and abilities
Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience working in a collaborative Agile environment
Previous experience evaluating the security of an application
Knowledge of UX principles
Prior management training
Demonstrated capability for design thinking, strategic planning, and product development
Familiarity with technology migrations
Previous experience with production level cloud ecosystems (AWS preferred)
Previous experience working with large volumes of complex data including modern ETL processes and tools e.g. Airflow
We will also appreciate if you have some of:
Experience designing CI/CD pipelines
Experience with building, testing, measuring, and deploying machine learning models in production
Experience working in the Hadoop ecosystem
Experience with clinical domain and with regulated data
Experience with prompt engineering and integration of LLMs into traditional web applications
Experience with JavaScript framework such as React.js.
We know that meaningful results require not only the right approach but also the right people . Regardless of your role, we invite you to reimagine healthcare with us. You will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and
Whatever your career goals, we are here to ensure you get there!
We invite you to join IQVIA™.
IQVIA is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. We believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all, including veterans and candidates with disabilities. https://jobs.iqvia.com/eoe
IQVIA’s ability to operate and provide certain services to customers and partners necessitates IQVIA and its employees meet specific requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccination status. https://jobs.iqvia.com/covid-19-vaccine-status
The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $136,800.00 - $254,000.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered, incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered, in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.
IQVIA is a world leader in using data, technology, advanced analytics, and expertise to help customers drive healthcare – and human health – forward. Together with the companies we serve, we are enabling a more modern, more effective and more efficient healthcare system, and creating breakthrough solutions that transform business and patient outcomes.
To get there, it takes diverse skills and a curiosity to explore new possibilities. No matter your role, everyone at IQVIA, including our colleagues at Q² Solutions, contributes to our shared goal of improving human health. Thank you for your interest in growing your career with us.
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