Global Technology Organization – Architecture and Standards: Within IQVIA’s Global Technology and Operations function, the Architecture & Standards organization’s mission is to enhance efficiency, speed, quality, interoperability and alignment of IQVIA’s technology by establishing “the IQVIA way.” Our vision is to foster a developer-first culture that promotes collaboration across siloed software development and other technology teams.

Technical Architecture Team: The Technical Domain Architecture team consists of hands-on engineers with expertise in various technical domains.  They define and maintain IQVIA architecture standards and reference architectures, build reference implementations and provide guidance to engineering teams during the technical design committee process.  In addition, technical architects will lead agile guilds for their domain – communities of practice that share technical knowledge across IQVIA’s federated engineering teams.

The Position’s Overview/Elevator Pitch: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Integration Architect to join our Technical Domain Architecture team within the Architecture and Standards Group of our Global Technology Organization.   As the principal application architect, you will play a pivotal role in designing integration reference architectures that ensure seamless communication and data flow across our global technology infrastructure.  Your expertise will be crucial in aligning integration strategies with business goals, promoting best practices, and ensuring adherence to architectural standards.

Essential Functions:

• Author Enterprise Application Integration Standards and Best Practices: Establish and enforce integration standards, guidelines and best practices.  Ensure compliance with architectural principles and data governance policies.
• Collaboration: Lead the Integration Guild and work closely with engineering and product teams to promote integration best practices.
• Innovation: Serve as the application integration thought leader, recommending innovative solutions to improve our systems.  Stay up to date with emerging integration technologies and industry trends.
• Strategic Planning: Develop and maintain the integration strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business goals and technology strategy.
• Developer Productivity and Experience: Contribute to the design of the Internal Developer Portal (DevIQ) related to application integration.  Contribute IaC modules and build project templates for common integration scenarios. Set standards for documentation and testing to optimize the development experience for platform consumers.
• Vendor and Tool Evaluation: Evaluate integration tools and vendors to balance functionality, cost, developer experience, performance, and observability.
• Security: Implement robust security measures to protect our platform from threats and vulnerabilities.
• Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentors

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in software development and architecture.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing messaging and streaming integration services.
• Strong understanding of messaging protocols and frameworks (AMQP, MQTT, Websockets, NATS, Kafka)
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS & Azure) and their integration offerings (EventGrid, ServiceBus, EventHub, Amazon MQ, Step Functions, etc.)
• Strong understanding of commercial and opensource integration offerings including Mulesoft, Kafka, Apache MQ, Apache Airflow, etc.
• Proven ability to build reference implementations that demonstrate message ordering, delivery  (pub/sub, fifo, etc.) and loose coupling techniques, and error handling/replay
• Experience with interface description languages such as OpenAPI Specification and AsyncAPI.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Java.

Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Deep understanding of API security, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Additional Attributes:

• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong commitment to quality and continuous improvement.
• Passion for staying current with industry trends and emerging technologies.

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 $142,800.00 - $265,200.00. 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.