Staff Data Engineer — Healthcare Data Platforms & AI

IQVIA Inc; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 103,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

IQVIA Inc is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to transform and provision large-scale patient-level healthcare data into production-ready assets powering the Scion Platform. You will design and optimize data pipelines, collaborate with data suppliers, and lead cross-functional teams in an Agile environment.

The role emphasizes cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake on Azure), Spark/Scala processing, and AI-assisted development tools to improve quality and productivity.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience with large scale data integration and data movement.
• Experience leading architecture and coordination with cross-functional and offshore teams.
• Cloud-based data platforms including Snowflake on Azure; Hadoop ecosystem experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with external data suppliers and internal stakeholders to understand data content, business rules, models, and source system characteristics.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest, transform, validate, and provision healthcare data from cloud sources.
• Develop automated data quality frameworks, validation procedures, and monitoring to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
• Build clean, maintainable code using best practices, and participate in CI/CD and Agile ceremonies.

Skills

Large-scale data integration

Data engineering

Scrum / Agile leadership

Cloud architecture

ETL/ELT design

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Redshift

Hadoop

Spark

Scala

Python

SQL

Linux

Shell scripting

Job description

IQVIA Inc is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to transform and provision large-scale patient-level healthcare data into production-ready assets powering the Scion Platform. You will design and optimize data pipelines, collaborate with data suppliers, and lead cross-functional teams in an Agile environment.

The role emphasizes cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake on Azure), Spark/Scala processing, and AI-assisted development tools to improve quality and productivity.