Associate Director, Site Suite and Planning Suite - BI Analytics

IQVIA is seeking an Associate Director to own & scale our data platform which includes our BI tools, analytics data pipelines, and workflow management, and data tools for scaling the analytics team. This is a highly collaborative leadership role rooted in superb technical skills and a data product mindset. You will be part of the data team and will be leading a high-performing team of BI and analytics engineers. You will have a unique opportunity to advance our multiple BI tools, further develop scalable analytics workflow solutions, build custom data applications to solve challenging data problems to scale analytics team productivity, lead various data integrations across all business functions to our BI tools, and positively impact business decisions at the largest social marketplace. The ideal candidate must have owned a data platform in a large-scale big data environment and partner with a team of analytics engineers and highly technical BI analysts. You will bring a passion for using technology to create efficiencies, and solve complex data problems at scale. You take a product management approach to create data & reporting platforms. You love talking with analysts, developers, engineers, business owners, and executives, and can translate business requirements, pain points into data products and solutions.

Associate Director, Site Suite and Planning Suite - BI Analytics

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and innovate our data platforms providing access to business reporting to executives, business leaders, and 5000+ users and key data tools to the analytics team.
• Drive design, development, productization and execution of a range of data and reporting solutions.
• Optimize processes to help the team operate efficiently - project management, code management, data quality and communicate timely and effectively.
• Develop and implement data platform vision and roadmap in partnership with broader data and business teams.
• Responsible for timely delivery of high quality and reliable reporting and data solutions.
• Build strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and build/update data solutions to support stakeholder and project objectives. Engage in proactive discussions translate business requirements, pain points into data products and solutions.
• Develop strong understanding of business and core KPIs.
• Present in external conferences, publish innovative work, and write blog posts.

Our Short Term to Mid-term Goals: 

• Become SME for our data model, BI Models framework, and analytics tools
• Establish positive working relationships with stakeholders and data teams.
• Scale data platforms to provide high-quality and responsive reporting for executives, business owners, stakeholders, and analysts.
• Create efficiencies for the data team by implementing a portfolio of data and reporting tools, eg. data catalog, Airflow, analytics sandbox.
• Become a trusted data thought partner with stakeholders and analysts.
• Further, strengthen and build out the team.
• Take full ownership of the longer-term vision for this function.

• Hands-on modeling, design, configuration, installation, performance tuning, and sandbox POC

Requirements

• Minimum Education Required Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering or related field.

• Ten (10) or more years hands-on experience successfully managing design and delivery of enterprise-level data models

• 6 – 9 years of data modelling experience with at least 3 years in Warehouse space

• Identify the architecture, infrastructure, and interfaces to data sources, tools supporting automated data loads, security concerns, analytic models, and data visualization.

• Owned BI platform/reporting and led a team of platform analysts and data engineers.

• Strong knowledge on different modelling techniques and design patterns

• Strong conceptual, logical and physical modelling experience

• Data profiling , Data analysis and data governance standards

• Physical database design including sizing, views, indexing strategies, partitioning, etc.

• Exposure working with Big data in high data volume sectors.

• Proficiency in SQL and other programming language(s) (Python, Javascript, etc.).

• Experience in writing scripts or programs to analyze/validate large data sets.

• Experience in creating analytics workflows using Airflow, dBT etc.

• Advanced business intelligence and reporting experience with strong critical thinking and project management skills.

• Strong debugging skills. Great attention to detail and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience with testing ETLs and knowledge of different Data technology stacks is a huge plus.

• Experience building custom data solutions for reporting, improving analytics workflows is a huge plus.

• Excellent critical thinking, troubleshooting, and analytical problem-solving abilities.

• Hands-on experience with workflow management tools such as Jira, Asana.

• B.A./B.S. or equivalent degree. Degree in a quantitative data-related field, computer science/data engineering is a huge plus.

Consultative Skills

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate software engineering and/or development concepts and principles

• Analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong teamwork skills with the ability to collaborate with other engineers including distributed team members

• Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to all aspects of the development

• Customer passion, business focus and the ability to negotiate, facilitate and build consensus.

• Promote a team environment across a large set of separate agile teams and stakeholders

• Strong team management, organizational, communication and presentation skills

• Work with business and application/solution teams to implement data strategies, build data flows, and develop conceptual/logical/physical data models

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 70,000+ employees around the world who apply their insight, curiosity and intellectual courage every step of the way. Learn more at jobs.iqvia.com.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable law.

IQVIA, Inc. provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.  Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to submit an application for employment or otherwise participate in the application process should contact IQVIA’s Talent Acquisition team at workday_recruiting@iqvia.com to arrange for such an accommodation.