Azure Solutions Architect

IQVIA™ is the leading human data science company focused on helping healthcare clients find unparalleled insights and better solutions for patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness the power of healthcare data, domain expertise, transformative technology, and advanced analytics to drive healthcare forward.

Responsibilities:
• Assist clients in establishing or evolving their cloud strategy and cloud operating model.
• Understand customer functional and non-functional requirements, document solution requirements, translate those requirements into technical specifications and work plans, and provide technical leadership around those work plans.
• Render data management, integration and analytical solutions through architectural patterns that operate at large scale and high performance, and provide recommendations on the appropriate cloud services to optimize cost.
• Advise internal consultants and customers on how to build and run HIPAA-compliant solutions based on those architectural patterns.
• Work with client teams to understand their current state architecture and contributing data sources, technologies, interfaces, performance issues and system configurations.
• Examine and identify database structural necessities by evaluating client operations, applications, and programming.
• Design data models, data flows, and integrations patterns necessary to build a robust and optimized cloud based healthcare data warehouse.
• Identify and develop new Azure based services and solutions to bring to the healthcare market.
• Oversee the migration of data from legacy systems to new solutions optimized for Azure.
• Develop templates/scripts to automate the deployment of Azure services.
• Drive adoption of Azure DevOps Services.
• Producing thought leadership including relevant blogs, whitepapers and webinars.

Qualifications (Minimum Required):
• 7+ years of experience directly involved in building data warehouse and data integration solutions, preferably on cloud
• 5+ years of experience (recent) with Azure data services including Azure SQL, DataBricks, and Azure Data Factory
• 3+ years of experience in healthcare industry
• Superior communication skills, will represent IQVIA Healthcare in all things Azure, internally, directly clients, and in the market as a whole
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification or combination of Azure associate-level certifications
• Broad experience across all major aspects of an overall Data Warehousing program including Data Acquisition, Data Curation and Data Syndication, and knowledge of the Microsoft Platform tooling potentially involved
• Prior consulting experience including supporting multiple projects, performing self-directed work, and collaborating with onsite and virtual teams
• Demonstrated business process improvement skills and strong technical problem-solving skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or relevant field

Additional Desired Skills
• Azure Infrastructure Management (Network, Security, Storage, Compute)
• Azure Data Warehouses (Synapse)
• Azure Data Factory and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Azure Databricks / Apache Spark / HDInsight
• Azure Data Lake Store / HDFS
• Event stream processing: Azure Stream Analytics / Azure Event Hub
• Serverless computing: Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps
• Azure API Management
• Azure DevOps / Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
• Agile engineering practices

Join Us

Making a positive impact on human health takes insight, curiosity, and intellectual courage. It takes brave minds, pushing the boundaries to transform healthcare. Regardless of your role, you will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve outcomes for patients.

Forge a career with greater purpose, make an impact, and never stop learning.

IQVIA is an EEO Employer - Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled

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.