Lead Data Engineer - Healthcare Data Platform (Remote)

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

Job summary

IQVIA evaluates opportunities with the Patient Finder team across Europe, seeking a Lead Data Engineer to drive the technical direction of data pipelines and data warehouse layers. You will lead work across evolving platforms and stakeholders, aligning on target patterns and delivering incremental improvements while keeping reliability high.

The role emphasizes mentoring data engineers, hands-on development in Python, SQL, and modern orchestration tools, and collaboration with Product,

Qualifications

• Hands-on Python development with production-grade solutions.
• Experience designing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Strong SQL skills across enterprise RDBMS.
• Proven mentoring and leadership in data teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data platform design and delivery.
• Standardise patterns and improve maintainability.
• Plan releases with validation and risk management.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and QA.
• Lead and coach the data engineering team.
• Partner with AI/ML leads to integrate data components.

Skills

Python development

ETL/ELT pipelines

SQL proficiency

Leadership / mentoring

Tools

Airflow

Prefect

dbt

Databricks

SQL Server / PostgreSQL

Job description

IQVIA evaluates opportunities with the Patient Finder team across Europe, seeking a Lead Data Engineer to drive the technical direction of data pipelines and data warehouse layers. You will lead work across evolving platforms and stakeholders, aligning on target patterns and delivering incremental improvements while keeping reliability high.

The role emphasizes mentoring data engineers, hands-on development in Python, SQL, and modern orchestration tools, and collaboration with Product,