BI Backend & Semantic Modeling for Healthcare AI

IQVIA; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

International exposure

Meaningful work

Great people

Flexibility

Job summary

IQVIA is seeking a Business Intelligence Consultant to join its Portugal-based team, with a strong backend focus. You will translate business needs into robust data solutions, design ETL/ELT pipelines, and build semantic models that support analytics and AI-enabled applications.

Based in Portugal, you’ll collaborate with international colleagues, support projects for the Belgian market, and contribute to data governance and metadata initiatives while maintaining a customer-focused approach.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data, Business Intelligence or a related field.
• Typically 3+ years of relevant experience in BI, data engineering, analytics engineering or a similar back-end role.
• Strong SQL, ETL/ELT and data integration skills.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Informatica Cloud or SSIS.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and data requirements into practical data integration, back-end and semantic modelling solutions.
• Design, develop and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, data transformations and curated data layers.
• Build and evolve dimensional and semantic models, including relationships, hierarchies, measures and reusable business definitions.
• Help make data AI-ready through consistent terminology, metadata, governance and data lineage.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts, data engineers, data scientists and front-end developers.
• Support data quality, performance optimisation and continuous improvement.
• Contribute across the project lifecycle, from requirements and design through development, testing and deployment.

Skills

SQL

ETL/ELT

Data integration

Back-end development

Data warehousing

Dimensional modelling

Kimball principles

Data modelling

APIs

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data, BI

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Informatica Cloud

SSIS

Job description

IQVIA is seeking a Business Intelligence Consultant to join its Portugal-based team, with a strong backend focus. You will translate business needs into robust data solutions, design ETL/ELT pipelines, and build semantic models that support analytics and AI-enabled applications.

Based in Portugal, you’ll collaborate with international colleagues, support projects for the Belgian market, and contribute to data governance and metadata initiatives while maintaining a customer-focused approach.