Associate Director, Software Engineering, Applied Data Science Center

The Applied Data Science Center 

Our Applied Data Science Center (ADSC) 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 are 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.

Associate Director, Software Engineering – The Role 

This management position within the Applied Data Science Center (ADSC) 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 S