Posted:
8/15/2024, 5:00:00 PM
Location(s):
North Carolina, United States ⋅ Durham, North Carolina, United States ⋅ Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States ⋅ Pennsylvania, United States
Experience Level(s):
Senior
Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering
Workplace Type:
Hybrid
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 are 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.
Role Summary
This is a senior engineer position within the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACOE) department of the Research & Development Solutions org (R&DSIT).
This SRE is responsible for the design and implementation of a hybrid cloud strategy including both public cloud (AWS) and on-premises deployments to support distributed software systems that serve an array of scenarios related to clinical trials and other lines of IQVIA’s pharma/tech business.
This is a highly collaborative role working in partnership with peer SREs, IT groups and software engineering teams to stand-up environments, deploy applications, establish metrics, and achieve infrastructure performance and stability targets.
The ideal candidate is more than an infrastructure specialist but also an experienced software engineer and able to participate in design, development, and leadership activities.
Typical Activities
Consultation and collaboration with software development teams
Actively participate in Agile practices
Assist with infosec assessments
Work with cloud infrastructure providers
Configure deployment automation frameworks
Establish best practices for consistency among software development teams
Continuous improvement, take proactive steps to improve product quality and process efficiency
Research current and emerging industry tools and techniques and share these findings with colleagues
Consistently deliver robust, high-quality, reliable engineering outcomes in cross functional autonomous scrum teams
Drive curiosity and innovation
Develop automated CI/CD pipelines that deploy to both on-premises clusters and to the cloud
Design and lead engineering efforts going towards building business applications
Collaborate with engineers and leaders from other organizations inside IQVIA
Support the product owner by understanding business requirements and helping the team break these into stories
Lead cross-team exercises, including DevOps incident management bridges
Lead documentation efforts for product architecture and security compliance
Lead security assessments and product readiness evaluation
Perform code reviews for work submitted by other engineers
Mentor interns, apprentices, and other engineers
Basic Qualifications
Prospective candidates who meet most of these qualifications are encouraged to apply. A well-qualified candidate will meet these qualifications.
Software design and development experience
Linux experience with the ability to configure environments through the use of software tools
Experience using Docker to build, test and deploy containers
Kubernetes – ability to deploy applications
Automated provisioning (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
Experience with CI/CD tools to build test and deploy
Experience with core AWS services, uses and basic AWS architecture best practices
Experience using GitHub (or similar VCS) for committing, branching, and merging
Solid understanding of microservices and restful services
Solid understanding of relational database management systems
Strong verbal and written communications skills
5+ years of relevant collaborative software engineering experience
2+ years full time engineering roles in at least two companies
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals
Demonstrated in-depth understanding of product development lifecycle
Experience deploying code into production through CI/CD tools (not just “CI/CD Pipeline”)
Prior experience leading engineering projects or teams
Demonstrated in-depth understanding of product development lifecycle
Demonstrated aptitude for and interest in peer mentorship
Additional Qualifications
These additional qualifications are not required. However, having any of the qualifications listed below will strengthen a candidate’s application.
Security experience (K8s, AWS, Azure)
Monitoring (Datadog)
Establishing and monitoring SLO’s, SLI’s and SLA’s (Datadog)
Experience building RESTful APIs
Prior management training (useful while this is not a management role)
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
IQVIA’s ability to operate and provide certain services to customers and partners necessitates IQVIA and its employees meet specific requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccination status. https://jobs.iqvia.com/covid-19-vaccine-status
The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $129,000.00 - $215,000.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered, incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered, in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.Website: https://iqvia.com/
Headquarter Location: Danbury, Connecticut, United States
Employee Count: 10001+
Year Founded: 1982
IPO Status: Public
Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt
Industries: Analytics ⋅ Health Care ⋅ Life Science