Data Engineer, IQVIA
Data Operations
$69.3-173.2k
Office located in Rosemont, IL
Health IT and clinical research company
Be an early applicant
Health IT and clinical research company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$69.3-173.2k
Office located in Rosemont, IL
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be a catalyst for innovation in healthcare, to drive healthcare forward every day, and make the extraordinary possible for patients.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering, data operations, or backend data development
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Snowflake (data warehouse design, optimization, and management)
- SQL (advanced querying, performance tuning, and data transformation)
- Python (data processing, scripting, and automation)
- Proven experience building and supporting production-grade data pipelines and workflows
- Strong experience with ETL/ELT tools, orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Atomic), or similar pipeline management tools
- Experience troubleshooting data issues, pipeline failures, and data inconsistencies, with strong root cause analysis skills
- Solid understanding of data modeling, data warehousing concepts, and data lifecycle management
- Familiarity with CI/CD, version control (Git), and production deployment practices
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in fast-paced environments
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain data issues and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working with healthcare, pharmaceutical, or life sciences data strongly preferred
What the job involves
- The Data Engineer (Data Operations) is responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing downstream data pipelines and analytics-ready datasets that power business intelligence and reporting.
- This role focuses on data troubleshooting, transformation, and delivery, ensuring that upstream data is validated and converted into reliable, curated data sources for BI and analytics teams.
- The individual will work hands-on with Snowflake, SQL, and Python to develop data models, resolve data issues, and support production data operations, enabling the BI team to efficiently consume high-quality data through their visualization tools. Experience with R is a plus, as we transition from R into new technologies
- Build and maintain curated data layers and data sources
- Develop and optimize SQL- and Python-based transformations in Snowflake
- Troubleshoot data quality issues originating from upstream pipelines, including identifying root causes and coordinating fixes where needed
- Validate incoming datasets and ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency before they are surfaced to downstream users
- Design and manage analytics-ready data models and tables to support reporting and dashboards
- Serve as a key point of contact for reporting data layers ensuring data sources meet usability and performance needs
- Monitor data pipelines and datasets for failures, anomalies, and performance issues, and proactively resolve them
- Support production operations, including incident management, backlog prioritization, and SLA adherence
- Partner with upstream engineering teams to escalate and resolve ingestion-related issues, while not owning ingestion directly
- Improve processes for data validation, monitoring, and operational efficiency
Our take
IQVIA is a world leader in analytics and clinical research in the life sciences sector. Formed from a merger between IMS Health and Quintiles, it has over 40 years of experience in the sector, growing to become one of the world’s largest contract research organisations, with a network spanning more than 100 countries.
Since its founding, IQVIA has outperformed the market and is focusing on expanding biosimilar firms such as Humira. Humira provides generic drugs from existing medications without needing further data analysis. However, IQVIA’s involvement in new areas of research is likely to offset this trend.
With global medicine spending on track to reach £1.3 trillion by 2025, IQVIA is focusing its efforts on oncology and immunology, the most profitable sectors in pharmaceutical development. It is also building out its technological infrastructure, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. While it is frank about the limitations of this technology within the sector, it greatly augments the data-handling capabilities of health science teams. Development in this sector is key to IQVIA’s growth plans for 2025 and beyond, which is on track with 2023-24 seeing a massive increase in company share value.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2013
$1m
GRANT
Total funding: $1m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Telemedicine
- Critical illness coverage
- Prescription coverage
- Disability, accidental death, pet and life insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Mental health support
- Well-being programs and events
- Flexible work environment
- Time off for leisure, personal time and corporate holidays
- Parental leave for birth or adoption
- Paid leave for other life matters (i.e., illness, bereavement, jury duty, military service, etc.)
- Training systems
- AI talent marketplace tool
- Leadership training programs
- Employee recognition programs
- Mentorship programs
- Service awards
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid volunteer day
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Office events
- Environmental commitments
- UN Global Impact member
- Retirement and savings plans
- Identity theft protection
- Commuter benefits
Company HQ
Research Triangle, Durham, NC
Leadership
Ari Bousbib
(CEO)Was previously CEO of IMS Health, one of the parent companies of IQVIA. Before that held senior leadership positions at United Technologies Company, including COO of Otis and eventually becoming President of the UTC group with responsibility for 150,000 employees.
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