Join us on our exciting journey! IQVIA™ is The Human Data Science Company™, focused on using data and science to help healthcare clients find better solutions for their patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, technology, analytics and human ingenuity to drive healthcare forward.
Associate Director, Software Development
Company
IQVIA (www.iqvia.com) 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 invented. 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 to enable our clients to run their operations more efficiently. Our big-data infrastructure is processing over 70 billion records annually. IQVIA employs over 50,000 professionals in over 100 countries to drive results for over 5,000 clients globally. IQVIA is a publicly listed Fortune 500 company (NYSE – IQV).
Qualifications
The Associate Director, Software Development is a dynamic leader that drives the software development of our next generation regional data offerings across European countries. The successful candidate will have: 1) a unique blend of computer science formal education; 2) early career hands-on software development experience (coding and software design & architecture); 3) large program management experience (budget, scope, timelines); 4) people management and leadership experience; 5) technology vision (massively parallel processing MPP systems and/or big-data); and 6) proven skill to execute short-term operational tasks while implementing a long-term vision. The candidate we are seeking has the drive and enthusiasm typical to a technology start-up and the knowledge and discipline of large companies with established operations. We operate on a large global scale with offices in more than 100 countries. We have the most complex data and applications in our industry. We have a high performance, diverse, and geographical distributed development team. We develop or implement complex technology. Our leadership position in the market demands constant innovation. Given all the above, this is a position that will provide more than a fair share of challenges. The successful candidate is an experienced, structured, and technical savvy software development manager that thrives on challenges and gets personal rewards from using technology to drive innovative solutions. This is a unique opportunity for a “techy” with the drive and passion to lead high performance teams to have a measurable impact in the technology world. The position reports to the Director, Business Technology Partner who oversees the Central, East & South Europe (CESE) software development for IQVIA BIG Data Factory platform for data processing and analytics.
Job Description
The Associate Director, Software Development is responsible for developing software and systems required by the CESE Regional Business Unit (RBU). The position manages a portfolio of projects and is responsible for requirements definition and analysis; system design and architecture; level of effort, scope, and timeline estimates; developing or integrating software components; testing; and deployment of final systems. This position will be selecting, training, and/or managing the staff and/or contractors to include in the team to meet our performance, cost, timeline, and business objectives. The Associate Director, Software Development is a highly regarded software development expert that translates the technology vision into an implementation road map. Our company leads in the market place by leveraging a global big-data processing platform. This position will design and promote the IQVIA BIG Data Factory Global Platform but at the same time build capabilities that will become components of the platform. Software engineering expertise, discipline, and customer focus are core values to System Development Global Unit at IQVIA. The Associate Director, Software Development is a solution expert that finds the right technology to build a balanced solution against features, cost, and timelines for all business requirements coming from the RBU. At the beginning of the budget planning cycle, the Associate Director, Software Development helps build the project portfolio based on requests from the business unit, existing or potentially available technology, and estimated team velocity. Following initial planning, this position oversees the execution of a portfolio of project and is responsible for execution against budget based on business demand and a technology vision. The Associate Director, Software Development provides architecture, design, and execution leadership and conflict resolution. The position interfaces at the same time with business leaders, developers, operations (the group responsible for operating the software developed by the group), and infrastructure (the group responsible for deploying and operating the hardware and networks). The Associate Director, Software Development will identify gaps and create process and discipline where needed or simplify and/or remove non-value generated process where it hinders our operations.
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We know that meaningful results require not only the right approach but also the right people. Regardless of your role, we invite you to reimagine healthcare with us. You will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve human health outcomes. Whatever your career goals, we are here to ensure you get there! We invite you to join IQVIA™
