Job Description

Staff Software Engineer



Primary Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States Full time R1196155 Date Posted: 04/02/2021

Job description

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.

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. Were 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.

Job Posting Title

Engineer 2,SiteReliabilityEngineering

Location

Durham, NC, Warsaw,Poland

RoleSummary

Thisis an Engineer 2positionwithin theAnalytics Center of Excellence (ACOE)department ofthe Research & Development Solutions org (R&DSIT).

ThisSREis responsible forthedesignandimplementation ofahybrid cloud strategy including both public cloud (AWS) andon-premisesdeploymentsto support distributed software systemsthat serve an array of scenarios related toclinical trials and other lines of IQVIAs pharma/tech business.

This is a highly collaborative roleworking in partnership with peer SREs, ITgroupsand software engineering teams to stand-up environments,deploy applications,establish metrics,and achieve infrastructure performance and stability targets.

The ideal candidate ismore than an infrastructure specialistbut alsoan experienced softwareengineer and able to participate in designanddevelopmentactivities.

Typical Activities

* Consultation and collaborationwith software development teams

* Actively participate in Agile practices

* Assist with infosecassessments

* Work withcloud infrastructureproviders

* Configure deployment automationframeworks

* Establishbest practicesfor consistency among software developmentteams

* Continuous improvement, take proactive steps to improve product quality and processefficiency

* Research current and emerging industry tools and techniques and share these findings withcolleagues

* Contribute to stable, reliable product development work in cross functional autonomous scrumteams

* Creating well-designed, testable, efficient infrastructure & software

* Drive curiosity and innovation

* Contribute to documentation efforts for product architecture and infoseccompliance

* Contribute to security assessments and product readinessevaluation

* Help optimizingsystemperformance

* Perform code reviews for work submitted by otherengineers

* Mentor interns, apprentices, and other

BasicQualifications

Prospective candidates who meet most of these qualifications are encouraged to apply.A well-qualified candidate will meetall ofthese qualifications.

* Software design and development experience

* Linux experience with the ability to configure environmentsthrough the use ofsoftwaretools

* Experience usingDockerto build, test and deploycontainers

* Kubernetes ability to deployapplications

* Automatedprovisioning(Terraform, Ansible, etc.)

* Experience with coreAWSservices, uses and basic AWS architecture bestpractices

* ExperienceusingGitLab(or similar VCS)for committing, branchingandmerging

* Solid understanding of microservicesand restful services

* Solid understanding of relational database management systems

* Strongverbal and writtencommunications skills

* 2+ years of relevant collaborative software development experience

* Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals

* Demonstrated in-depth understanding of product developmentlifecycle

* Experience deploying code into production through CI/CD tools(not just CI/CD Pipeline)

Additional Qualifications

These additional qualifications are not required. However, having any of the qualifications listed belowwill strengthen a candidates application.

* Security experience (K8s, AWS, Azure)

* Monitoring (Datadog)

* Establishing and monitoring SLOs, SLIs and SLAs(Datadog)

* Experience designing applications in a microservice-orientedarchitecture

* Experience building RESTfulAPIs

* Experience with clinical domain and with regulateddata

* Experience working in the Hadoopecosystem

* Prior experience leading engineering projects

At IQVIA, 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. The advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services we provide to the life sciences industry are made possible by our 67,000+ employees around the world who apply their insight, curiosity and intellectual courage every step of the way. Learn more at jobs.iqvia.com.

IQVIA is an EEO Employer - Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled

IQVIA, Inc. provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to submit an application for employment or otherwise participate in the application process should contact IQVIAs Talent Acquisition team at workday_recruiting@iqvia.com to arrange for such an accommodation.