Software Development Director

Company: IQVIA Argentina
Location: Plymouth
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

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healthier world. Start right here at IQVIA.

Locations: Plymouth Meeting, PA ; Durham, NC Full time R1128706 Date Posted: 06/01/2020

IQVIA™ is the leading human data science company focused on helping healthcare clients find unparalleled insights and better solutions for patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness the power of healthcare data, domain expertise, transformative technology, and advanced analytics to drive healthcare forward.

Location: Plymouth Meeting, PA, Durham, NC, or Cambridge, MA

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’re 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.

Director, Software Development – the role

In a leadership position on a fast growing team, this role presents exciting opportunities for career progression. You will be responsible for shaping the overall direction for the architecture and software development practices for part of our technology portfolio.

Using your broad technical understanding across multiple technology layers as well as deep technical knowledge of developing distributed machine learning enabled systems, you will work with an enormous breadth of data to design and develop data science applications. Involved in every stage of the product development lifecycle, you will provide supervision and ensure technical excellence in turning prototypes into well-abstracted reusable modules, building software to expose data science to business users through responsive UIs, and supporting a culture of continuous improvement. As an expert software developer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership, including application architecture, release responsibilities, code / quality reviews, and engineering best practices.

You will also have the opportunity to influence and shape the technical culture within the group through exhibiting technical leadership, mentorship, and management responsibilities within the engineering team.

Your typical activities might include:

Managing and collaborating with large multi-national team of developers (backend and frontend), test automation engineers, and devops engineers while directly supervising developers and line managers and overseeing the hiring process

Consulting senior-level stakeholders across the organization understanding business and technology needs matching the technology to the functional requirements.

Assessing the business impact of technical choices and keeps product owners informed about the impact of requirements on development speed

Ensuring smooth delivery and operation of IT services utilizing an SRE model

Creating processes and standards for selection, implementation, and support of systems and properly communicates them

Providing direction, guidance, and training to IT staff

Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed

Proactively helping to identify and resolve difficult technical issues.

Providing software architecture guidance to product development teams, assessing in place design and proposing solutions to improve it

Overseeing IT infrastructure, including Cloud infrastructure, on-premises clusters and CI/CD pipelines

Facilitating cross-collaboration and knowledge sharing between the tech leads of the applications and create an open a transparent technical culture for all developers for them to feel incentivized to pursue new ideas and innovate

Managing external software service providers

Our ideal candidate will have:

10+ years of proven experience in engineering and software architecture design for enterprise applications with increasing responsibilities

5+ years of management experience; multi-national team experience a plus

Broad management skills to lead teams, as well as the ability to influence others outside of own job area regarding policies, procedures, and goals

Ability to handle changing priorities and to use good judgement when working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Experience working with customer facing, multi-tenant enterprise applications

Expert knowledge of microservices architecture and implementation (especially Kubernetes) and big data systems (especially Hadoop ecosystem)

Expert knowledge of IT infrastructure and cloud solutions

Knowledge of SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) discipline

Willingness and ability to learn new technology

Great teamwork, strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills

Hands-on experience of coding languages, possibly Python

Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience working in a collaborative Agile environment

Experience with building, testing, measuring, and deploying machine learning models in production

We will also appreciate if you have some of:

Experience managing a global team development team

A track record of strong delivery on multiple simultaneous technology products

Knowledge of clinical domain and experience with regulated data

Join Us

Making a positive impact on human health takes insight, curiosity, and intellectual courage. It takes brave minds, pushing the boundaries to transform healthcare. Regardless of your role, you will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve outcomes for patients.

Forge a career with greater purpose, make an impact, and never stop learning.

IQVIA is an EEO Employer - Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled

IQVIA, Inc. provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to submit an application for employment or otherwise participate in the application process should contact IQVIA’s Talent Acquisition team at workday_recruiting@iqvia.com to arrange for such an accommodation.

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