Assoc Software Devl Dir

As an Associate Director of Software development with IQVIA, you’ll be responsible for building and taking to production low latency, Massive Parallel Processing data and analytic systems, ideally on Hadoop and Spark, and:

• Data Engineer on the Data Lake/Hadoop application.
• Work on building data pipelines to load and manipulate data onto the Data Lake. Optimize data architecture for consumption, utilization and analytics with data on Hadoop, including for data science, machine learning and statistical use cases
• Help lead the charge on a data lake store strategy, ensuring rapid delivery while taking responsibility for applying standards, principles, theories, and concepts
• Responsible for design and delivery of data models, which power BI initiatives, dashboards, syndicated reporting, and ad-hoc data exploratory canvases for IQVIA solutions
• Work with data architects on the logical data models and physical database designs optimized for performance, availability and reliability
• Tuning and optimization of backend and frontend data operations
• Serve as a query tuning and optimization technical expert, providing feedback to team
• Design and develop ETL and master data management processes
• Scripting and automation to support development, QA and production database environments and deployments to production
• Define and help enforce data governance and security policy
• Mentors development team members
• Proactively helps to resolve difficult technical issues
• Provide technical knowledge to teams during project discovery and architecture phases
• Keep management informed of work activities and schedules
• Assess new initiatives to determine the work effort and estimate the necessary time-to-completion
• Document new development, procedures or test plans as needed
• Participate in data builds and deployment efforts. Help mature our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment methodologies
• Participate in projects through various phases
• Performs other related duties as assigned
• Partner with the business units to develop effective solutions that solve business challenges

Candidates interested in joining IQVIA should have:

• Hadoop, Hive, Impala, HBase and related technologies
• Spark
• Object Oriented and Functional Programming Experience
• Modern DevOps experience
• Linux
• Data Warehousing design and concepts
• RDBMS Experience
• Stats/ML/Analytics packages

In addition to the skills and experience above, candidates interested in joining IQVIA should have:

• 5 years strong native SQL skills
• 5 years strong experience in database and data warehousing/data lake concepts and techniques. Understand: relational and dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schema design, BI, Data Warehouse operating environments and related technologies, ETL, MDM, and data governance practices.
• 2 years’ experience working in Linux
• 2 years’ experience with Hadoop, Hive, Impala, HBase, and related technologies
• 1 years strong experience with low latency (near real time) systems and working with Tb data sets, loading and processing billions of records per day
• 1 years’ experience with Spark, Scala, Python, Java, and/or R
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
• Ability to complete the full lifecycle of software development and deliver in an Agile/Scrum environment, leveraging Continuous Integration/Continuous Development
• Strong interpersonal skills, including a positive, solution-oriented attitude
• Must be passionate, flexible and innovative in utilizing the tools, their experience, and any other resources, to effectively deliver to very challenging and always changing business requirements with continuous success
• Must be able to interface with various solution/business areas to understand the requirements and support development
• Healthcare and/or reference data experience is a plus

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

As the COVID-19 virus continues to evolve, IQVIA’s ability to operate and provide certain services to customers and partners necessitates IQVIA and its employees meet specific requirements regarding vaccination status. https://jobs.iqvia.com/covid-19-vaccine-status