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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 wellqualified 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