ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, ANALYTICS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

Company: IQVIA
Location: Durham
Posted on: September 26, 2024

Job Description:

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're using big data and advanced analytics to derive insights that transform clinical development and bring new medicines to patients faster through successful trial delivery. - -Associate Director, Software Engineering - The Role -This management position within the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACOE) department of the Research & Development Solutions organization (R&DS) is responsible for managing a team of software engineers. As an Associate Director, you will lead a high performing group of developers who design and develop new products, features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes that serve an array of scenarios related to clinical trials and other lines of IQVIA's pharma/tech business. -Your typical activities will include: -Mentoring junior and senior software engineers. -Helping team members achieve career goals. -Oversee one or more product teams. -Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of programming languages, software development techniques, and methodologies. -Leading improvements in software development best practices, including Agile processes, programming techniques, and processes. -Keeping team members informed of company processes, priorities, and general information. -Managing employees, conducting performance reviews including development plans, making staffing decisions. -Creating effective onboarding plans to ensure minimum time to value. -Ensuring team members are aligned with their role and contribution. -Identifying unmet skill requirements and hiring or developing staff to satisfy them. -Promoting a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence. -Collaborating with other departments to ensure alignment with company goals and objectives. -Driving strategic initiatives to improve development processes and team performance. -Basic Qualifications: -Sees a front-line manager's role as a player-coach. -Demonstrate ownership and commitment. -Passion for empowering and enabling direct reports. -Articulates healthy leadership principles including relationships, empathy, collaboration, pragmatism. -Strong verbal and written communication abilities. -Ability to be tactful when dealing with delicate situations. -Prior experience working in a collaborative Agile environment. -Basic understanding of finances and budgeting. -Prior experience in a senior individual contributor role (senior engineer, staff engineer, principal engineer, senior principal engineer). -Previously as an IC, led projects with teams of peers (influence, not HR authority). -Used/consumed APIs made by others. -Used CI/CD commit, test, deploy tools. -Developed object-oriented software using at least one of Python 3.x or JavaScript (ES5/6 or ES2015+), in addition to other technologies or frameworks. -Solid understanding of relational database management systems including logical design and implementation considerations. -Preferred Qualifications: -3+ years prior experience as a team manager (HR authority). -Deployed software into Kubernetes containers. -Experience with public clouds. -Implemented and supervised version control strategies. -Designed and developed Microservices and APIs. -Developed software for container environments. -Awareness of infosec compliance factors in software development. -Prior experience collaborating with data science or machine learning teams. -Prior completion of an ABET accredited BS Computer Science degree or equivalent. -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 - -Whatever your career goals, we are here to ensure you get there! -We invite you to join IQVIA. -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 -We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all, including veterans and candidates with disabilities. 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.The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $136,800.00 - $254,000.00. 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.SummaryLocation: Durham, North Carolina, United States of America; Wayne, PA, Unites States of AmericaType: Full time

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