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 atsupporting 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.

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.