Backend Team Lead

**Must sit in Halifax, NS office

• You will be leading a group of talented developers located across the world. You will be responsible for mentoring and growing your team potential.
• Lead the SCRUM meetings, build architecture, and improve the quality of the codebase. Agility is in your nature, ability to change, and pivot. Strong client deliverable orientation.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong knowledge of the Java programming language and the server environment.
• Deep understanding of good programming practices, design patterns, and Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
• Ability to work as part of a team by contributing to product backlog reviews and solution design and implementation
• Be disciplined in implementing software in a timely manner while ensuring product quality isn't compromised
• Strong documentation skills

Minimum qualifications:

• Successfully implemented and released REST services using a modern java framework in the past 3 years
• Successfully designed database models that are adequate for the problem on hand
• Formal training in software engineering, computer science, or computer engineering.
• Worked as part of a mature engineering team

Technological stack:

• Have working knowledge with Spring Boot
• Have working knowledge with Java 1.8+ features such as streams and lambda expressions
• Have working knowledge with Domain-Driven Design and Similar Architecture concepts
• Understands reactive programming, reactive systems, Point to Point, and Pub/Sub queues, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc...
• Have working knowledge with containerization and build pipelines, Rancher, Circle CI, K8S
• Successfully implemented REST Services that can interact seamlessly with Frontend web applications
• Understanding of asynchronous architecture
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases and concepts.

At IQVIA, we believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. The advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services we provide to the life sciences industry are made possible by our 67,000+ employees around the world who apply their insight, curiosity and intellectual courage every step of the way. Learn more at jobs.iqvia.com.