Associate Director of Architecture job in Raleigh at IQVIA

Are you interested in:

• Building tools using advanced quantitative techniques, and brainstorming with thought leaders to find the optimal solutions to Life Sciences companies’ planning needs?

• Writing sophisticated and elegant code to implement solutions.

• Managing architecture for implementations at leading Life Science companies?

• Collaborating with and communicating your team’s work to clients from leading pharmaceutical companies around the world?

• Contributing to the advancement of healthcare provided to patients worldwide?​

Overview

IQVIA™ is the world’s leading company providing information, technology, and services for virtually every type of stakeholder in healthcare. Every day, IQVIA™ innovates on a large scale. We have been the big data company in healthcare before the “Big Data” term was defined. Since 1954 we have been helping healthcare organizations harness commercial and scientific insights and execute on their most strategic initiatives. We develop and operate systems and applications using big data technologies on our private-public hybrid cloud. IQVIA™ stores and computes more than 20 petabytes of complex healthcare data on diseases, treatments, costs and outcomes to enable our clients to run their operations more efficiently. Our big data infrastructure is processing over 50 billion healthcare transactions annually. IQVIA™ employs over 50,000 professionals in over 100 countries to drive results for over 5,000 healthcare clients globally. IQVIA™ is a publicly listed company (NYSE – Q) with estimated revenue close to $7B and a market cap of over $18B.

IQVIA Commercial Solutions provides tools to the Life Sciences industry in countries around the world. Our data, software, and consulting help pharmaceutical companies make better strategic and operational decisions. Our tools support key processes such as forecasting, pipeline planning, and launch planning at multiple companies. In helping these companies make better decisions, our software and consulting solutions help improve quality of life for millions of patients taking therapies around the world.

A blend of people skills, systems & coding skills, and IT architecture knowledge are considered essential for the job.

We are focused on building first-in-class or best-in-class solutions that are elegant, real-time, data-focused and simple. We understand that a great solution is not just about generally building a software model, but about bringing together software solutions with a deep understanding of client needs to deliver a solution that is right for the job. As such, this role will require you to develop, pilot and deploy new products that meet the needs of our customers and the industry. You will work directly with individuals with 15+ years of experience in the industry.

Job Summary: The Associate Director will assist with the conceptualization, development and deployment of an enterprise architecture which supports current and future IQVIA systems, products and platforms and that satisfies business product strategy.

Essential Functions:

• Assists with the ongoing conceptualization, development and deployment of an enterprise architecture

• Leads enterprise system deployment and manages the infrastructure of our existing implementations

• Designs and manages process improvements in areas such as testing and deployment.

• Designs, develops, integrates, and tests the organization's technical logical and physical architecture to align with business needs.

• Partners with business line managers, providing technical and system expertise, to synergize IT strategic direction and product concepts.

• Defines the conceptual model, structure and behavior of a system; and maintains, implements and analyzes the high-level design plan for the overall logical and physical IT architecture.

• Keeps up to date with technology changes and identifies opportunities for implementation in future systems.

• Mentors and assists other team members on coding tasks

• Defines R&D projects and runs those projects in compliance with standard project management practices.

• Devises and presents business cases and program release plans to maintain and evolve this architecture.

• Partners with product development management to define IT strategic direction and assists in the mapping of projects to that strategic direction whilst ensuring product capabilities and process improvements are delivered over time within the framework of the IQVIA enterprise architecture.

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related field.

• Advanced degree preferred, but not required.

• Minimum 7 years of experience in software and/or product development with a focus on IT Architecture

• Expertise in utilizing current technology, tools, and techniques for software development.

• Experience in enterprise architecture, business information modeling, and system design.

• Ability to maintain enterprise systems on IQVIA and client servers.

Required Technical Knowledge:

• SQL Server

• ASP.Net MVC

• SSO

• Rest APIs for Custom Built Neural Nets, Feature Set Analysis, GLM

• C#

• Javascript / JQuery / HTML / CSS5

Preferred Technical Knowledge:

• Python/R

• MicroServices

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 [ Link removed ] - Click here to apply to Associate Director of Architecture

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IQVIA is a world leader in using data, technology, advanced analytics, and expertise to help customers drive healthcare – and human health – forward. Together with the companies we serve, we are enabling a more modern, more effective and more efficient healthcare system, and creating breakthrough solutions that transform business and patient outcomes.

To get there, it takes diverse skills and a curiosity to explore new possibilities. No matter your role, everyone at IQVIA, including our colleagues at Q² Solutions, contributes to our shared goal of improving human health. Thank you for your interest in growing your career with us.

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