IQVIA Digital is seeking a skilled and data-savvy Software Engineer and part-manager, to help build and scale API-driven solutions that power our digital health ecosystem. This role goes beyond traditional backend development—it's about understanding the flow, structure, and value of data across digital platforms and ensuring seamless integration between systems. You will work closely with data engineers, product teams, and digital strategists to create APIs that not only serve functionality but also enable intelligent data exchange and insights generation.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable APIs that facilitate secure and efficient data exchange across digital health platforms.
- Collaborate with data teams to understand data models, pipelines, and governance requirements.
- Translate complex data requirements into API specifications that support analytics, reporting, and machine learning use cases.
- Ensure APIs are optimized for performance, security, and interoperability, including support for healthcare data standards (e.g.HL7).
- Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to the evolution of IQVIA’s digital data ecosystem.
- Monitor and troubleshoot API performance and data flow issues in production environments.

Be the local technical lead and manage team for guidance, development, accountability.

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Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
8+ years of experience in backend or modern data engineering, API development, with a strong understanding of data structures and data integration.

- Proficiency in Python and experience with API frameworks (FastAPI preferred).

- Solid understanding of RESTful API design, authentication protocols (OAuth2, JWT), and versioning strategies.

- Experience working with structured and semi-structured data (JSON, XML, Parquet) and data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, or AWS Redshift).

- Familiarity with cloud-native development (AWS, GCP) and CI/CD pipelines, serverless functions.

Strong understanding of Kubernetes,  preferred EKS/GKE experience

Preferred:

- Experience in healthcare or life sciences, especially with AdTech/Digital advertising

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