Junior Data Engineer, IQVIA
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Health IT and clinical research company
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Health IT and clinical research company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
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
- Master’s degree, or 2:1 Bachelor’s degree with relevant academic projects or internships in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 0 - 2 years’ experience as a junior data engineer, graduate engineer, or junior software developer
- Exposure to ETL / ELT pipelines, data modelling concepts, and structured datasets
- Ability to work effectively as part of a cross‑functional team
- Familiarity with software development, lifecycle and collaborative engineering practices
- Strong Python or Python with some exposure to C++
- Working knowledge of PySpark for data transformations and large scale processing
- Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server
- Experience using Git for version control, collaboration, and code reviews
- Comfortable using Visual Studio Code or Cursor as an IDE for Python and SQL development
- Understanding of:
- Data pipeline design and orchestration
- Basic performance optimization and query tuning
- Ability to write clean, well‑structured, and well‑documented code
- Working knowledge of Linux environments
- Strong problem‑solving and debugging skills
- Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
- Interest in GenAI technologies and their application in data engineering and analytics platforms
Desirable
- Experience with C++
- Deeper experience with PySpark or distributed data processing frameworks
- Familiarity with Docker or containerised workloads
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical, patient, hospital, or prescribing datasets
- Understanding of UK healthcare or life sciences data ecosystems, including NHS‑related data
- Exposure to AI‑assisted development workflows using tools such as Cursor
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Junior Data Engineer to join the UK Market Intelligence business and support the modernization of our data infrastructure and analytical capabilities focused on real‑world healthcare data
- This role will focus on building automated, scalable, and reliable data pipelines, improving data workflows, and helping unlock value from large healthcare datasets
- You will work alongside experienced data engineers, architects, and product teams to enhance existing platforms, refactor legacy code, and contribute to the development of MVP data applications for internal and client‑facing teams
- There is also an opportunity to support the UK rollout of the IQVIA Agentic AI platform, integrating it with UK healthcare data assets
- This position is ideal for someone early in their career who is technically curious, detail‑oriented, and eager to grow in a regulated, data‑driven environment
- Build, maintain, and optimize automated data pipelines using modern data engineering practices
- Develop and refactor data processing components using Python and PySpark for scalability and performance
- Develop, refactor and maintain legacy Python components (and C++ where applicable) to improve performance, reliability and maintainability
- Design and implement data workflows using PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring robustness, monitoring and error handling
- Support data ingestion, transformation and validation across large and complex healthcare datasets
- Use Git for version control, working with branches, pull requests, and code reviews
- Work effectively within Visual Studio Code (or Cursor, where approved) for development, debugging, and code navigation
- Collaborate closely with data engineers, software engineers, data architects, and product managers to deliver scalable and maintainable solutions
- Contribute to MVP data applications and proof‑of‑concept tools that enable rapid testing of ideas for client‑facing teams
- Ensure data quality, governance, and compliance with UK healthcare and life sciences data standards
Salary benchmarks
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 £2.6 trillion by 2030, 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, which are on track with Q1 2026 seeing an 8.4% increase in year-on-year revenue.
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 & Chairman)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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