Data Engineer, IQVIA
Health IT and clinical research company
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Health IT and clinical research company
1001+ employees
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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
- Deep expertise in Python, with a solid grasp of Object-Oriented Programming and abstraction design
- Confidence in writing SQL for both data definition (DDL) and data manipulation (DML)
- Extensive expertise in at least one relational database system, preferably Microsoft SQL Server or PostgreSQL
- 3 years' experience as data engineer
- Proficiency in modular development practices
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining data pipelines using tools such as Prefect, Airflow, Luigi, or Dagster
- A strong focus on testability and scalability, often applying Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles
- The ability to clearly articulate and translate complex concepts to fellow data engineers and cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English
- You are a dedicated professional driven by a passion for transforming healthcare and making a meaningful impact
- You thrive in data-centric environments, confidently mapping data and building robust data pipelines
- With a strong desire for continuous learning and personal growth, you bring curiosity and clarity to complex, ambiguous challenges
- You excel in self-organizing teams and embrace autonomy in your work
Desirable
- Experience or affinity with monitoring system, like DataOps (testing, CI/CD, deployment)
- Eagerness to learn more and stay up to date with data engineering best practices
- Affinity with the medical domain
- Knowledge of medical data standards such as FHIR and/or OMOP
What the job involves
- As a data engineer you will design, implement, and improve data pipelines in hospitals with a wide variety of data sources, mostly on-premises, with plans to become cloud-ready for international customers in the coming years
- You will be working in a collaborative environment as part of a six-person data warehousing team
- The team is responsible for a wide range of tasks, including data warehouse design, data mapping, ETL pipeline development, and providing support for new user requests and ETL-related issues
- You will be actively involved in all of these activities, with the opportunity to specialize in a particular area if you wish
- Additionally, you will be part of a larger, cross-functional and dynamic team consisting of software engineers, designers, medical consultants and NLP engineers
- Collaborate on the design and development of the CTcue datawarehouse & dataflow ecosystem using SQL and Python
- Design & develop new testable python data pipelines primarily in a Prefect-driven architecture
- Contribute to & provide support for existing pipelines either by providing operational support, python module maintenance or adjusting SQL layers
- Develop SQL data transformations and connectors for new medical data sources
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 and has grown 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, with is main concerns being in the expansion of biosimilar firms such as Humira which are able to provide generic drugs from existing medications, without needing further data analysis. However IQVIA’s involvement in new areas of research are likely to more than offset this trend.
With global medicine spend 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 is able to greatly augment 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
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, not founder)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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