Senior Engineer

The Applied Data Science Center:
Our Applied Data Science Center (ADSC) 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.

Senior Engineer – The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work with an enormous breadth of data to design and develop data science applications. Collaborating with business owners, subject matter experts, and go-to-market teams, you will build innovative solutions to support clinical trials, optimize their design and execution, and improve risk management. You will be involved in every stage of the product development lifecycle, working with data scientists to turn prototypes into well-abstracted reusable services, and build software to expose data science models to business users through responsive UIs. Supporting a culture of continuous improvement, you will also provide architectural guidance, shape coding standards, and mentor engineers and data scientists.

Key Responsibilities:

• Consistently deliver robust, high-quality, reliable engineering outcomes in cross-functional autonomous scrum teams.
• Develop automated CI/CD pipelines that deploy to both on-premises clusters and the cloud.
• Research current and emerging industry tools and techniques, sharing findings with colleagues.
• Improve product quality through rigorous automated testing and continuous integration.
• Coordinate with data scientists, facilitating their development and helping them write production-grade code.
• Drive curiosity and innovation, establishing and enforcing standards.
• Facilitate cross-team knowledge sharing.
• Design and lead engineering efforts for building business applications.
• Collaborate with engineers and leaders from other organizations inside the company.
• Support product owners by understanding business requirements and helping the team break these into stories.
• Lead documentation efforts for product architecture and security compliance.
• Lead security assessments and product readiness evaluations.
• Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback for work submitted by other engineers.
• Mentor interns, apprentices, and other engineers.

Qualifications:

• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• 5+ years of relevant collaborative software engineering experience.
• 2+ years full-time engineering experience across at least two different companies.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals.
• Expert familiarity with backend development (Python) or frontend development using a JavaScript framework such as React.js, with familiarity in both areas required.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience working in a collaborative Agile environment.
• Experience designing applications using a microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform.
• Experience with relational databases.
• Experience deploying code into production through CI/CD tools.
• Experience building RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of Linux command line tools.
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of product development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated aptitude for and interest in peer mentorship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
• Experience with building, testing, measuring, and deploying machine learning models in production.
• Experience working with large volumes of complex data with workflow management tools like Airflow.
• Experience with non-relational databases.
• Knowledge of UX principles.
• Experience with the clinical domain and regulated data. 
   

About You:

• Impactful: Take initiative and lead team members to turn ideas into real features. Passionate about discussing use cases and user flows with product managers and designers and contributing ideas to those discussions.
• Front-End Focused: Love working proactively with product management and UX to refine and iterate on specifications as the product takes shape.
• Quality-Focused: Write well-tested code that performs well and fails gracefully.
• Customer-Focused: Have opinions about how users will use the product and what problems they might encounter. Interested in and willing to dive into and understand customers' problems.
• Driven: Set challenging goals for yourself and push to meet them. Have a passion for delivering high-quality work quickly and enjoy working at a fast pace.
• Collaborative: Enjoy collaborating with, learning from, and teaching others. Treat colleagues with honesty, kindness, and respect, and actively create a positive work environment.
• Humble: Unafraid to ask questions when you do not know the answer and approach disagreements with the possibility that you might be wrong.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com