Manager, Software Engineering

This management position within the Applied Data Science Center (ADSC) department of the Research & Development Solutions org (R&DS) is responsible for managing a team of software engineers. As a Manager, you will support a high-performance group of engineers who design 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.

Your typical activities will include:

• Mentoring junior and senior software engineers.
• 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.
• Administratively 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.

Basic 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).
• 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).
• Prior experience as a project manager.
• Designed user experiences or user interfaces.
• Implemented user experiences or user interfaces.
• Deployed software into AWS.
• Deployment automation using Terraform.
• Deployed software into Kubernetes containers.
• 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!

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