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.
Manager, Software Engineering
This management position within the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACOE) department of the Research & Development Solutions org (R&DS) is responsible for managing a team of software engineers.
This manager is responsible for delivering a high-performance 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.
Success in this role includes creating and sustaining a healthy team working environment, including a focus on work-life balance, while providing opportunities for individual contributors to grow and distinguish themselves.
A successful leader will help define and implement best practices and leverage their prior engineering experience to guide and mentor their team members.
Our ideal candidate is someone who brings with them experience as a senior engineer or principal engineer and insight from engineering roles held at multiple organizations.
We seek individuals who have experience working in large organizations while maintaining a passion for agility, creativity, and humanity.
We welcome individuals who have experience in a variety of industries.
This role is a great opportunity for an experienced senior engineer looking to take the next step in their career development with broader responsibility and increasing visibility.
Typical Activities
Mentor junior and senior software engineers
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of programming languages, software development techniques and methodologies
Lead improvements in software development best practices, including Agile processes, programming techniques and processes
Keep team members informed of company processes, priorities and general information
Administratively manage employees, conduct performance reviews including development plans, make staffing decisions
Create effective onboarding plans to ensure minimum time to value
Responsible for value proposition of the development team, ensuring team members are aligned with their role and contribution
Identify unmet skill requirements and hire or develop staff to satisfy them
Oversee one or more product teams
Basic Qualifications
Prospective candidates who meet most of these qualifications are encouraged to apply.
A well-qualified candidate will meet all of these qualifications.
Sees a front-line manager's role as a player-coach
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)
1+ years prior experience as a team manager
Previously as an IC, led projects with teams of peers (influence, not HR authority)
Solid understanding of relational database management systems including logical design and implementation considerations
Additional Qualifications
These additional qualifications are not required.
However, having any of the qualifications listed below will strengthen a candidate's application.
Prior experience as a project manager
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
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 (i.e.
3 years experience with progressive scope and accountability)
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries.
We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide.
Learn more at
https://jobs.iqvia.com
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