Lead Data Engineer — Healthcare Data Platform

IQVIA; Gouda; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IQVIA's Patient Finder team seeks a Lead Data Engineer to drive data pipelines and data warehouses, mentor engineers, and shape architectural direction. You will partner with product and QA to deliver robust, scalable data solutions with a focus on reliability and healthcare data integrity.

You will lead end-to-end design and delivery of the data platform, standardise patterns, and elevate engineering practices across Europe.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in Python development with emphasis on scalable, maintainable, testable, production-grade solutions.
• Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines using modern orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Prefect, Luigi, Dagster).
• Experience in dbt for data transformation, modelling, testing, and deployment.
• Experience working with Databricks and optimization of large-scale pipelines.
• Advanced SQL skills with MS SQL Server or PostgreSQL in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of the data platform (pipelines + warehouse layers), primarily using Prefect, Python and SQL.
• Drive platform evolution by standardising patterns, reducing overhead, and improving maintainability and reliability.
• Ensure continuity and quality during change via release planning, validation, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to refine requirements and prioritise backlog based on value and constraints.
• Raise engineering standards through reviews, quality practices, and AI-assisted development controls.
• Collaborate with QA to increase test maturity, coverage, and automation for pipelines and data transformations.
• Collaborate with Application and AI/ML leads to integrate data components with the wider product ecosystem.
• Lead the data engineering team (line management where applicable), coaching engineers and owning work intake.

Skills

Python development

ETL/ELT pipelines

dbt

Databricks

Advanced SQL

Data platforms

Leadership/mentorship

Architecture decisions

Data quality

DevOps

Tools

Airflow

Prefect

Luigi

Dagster

Databricks

dbt

MS SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Job description

IQVIA's Patient Finder team seeks a Lead Data Engineer to drive data pipelines and data warehouses, mentor engineers, and shape architectural direction. You will partner with product and QA to deliver robust, scalable data solutions with a focus on reliability and healthcare data integrity.

You will lead end-to-end design and delivery of the data platform, standardise patterns, and elevate engineering practices across Europe.