Director, Mobile Architecture

The Director, Mobile Architecture is a key member of the R&DS Enterprise Architecture team, and has overall responsibility for defining the technical architecture and facilitating the technical evolution of a suite of integrated mobile software products and platforms designed to make clinical trials more efficient.

The role demands the skills and experience of a hands-on architect who is passionate about using the latest innovations in enterprise mobile technologies to create configurable, modular and intelligent capabilities that can be rapidly configured and integrated to support a range of clinical trials.

IQVIA is committed to bringing clients the best in creative problem solving, enabling healthcare companies to innovate with confidence, maximize opportunities, and ultimately drive human health forward. At IQVIA new and creative solutions aren’t just possible – they are expected. The key to our success is our people, whose experience, talent, commitment and diversity set the standard for the life sciences.

The Director, Mobile Architecture is a key member of the R&DS Enterprise Architecture team, and has overall responsibility for defining the technical architecture and facilitating the technical evolution of a suite of integrated cloud-based platforms and products designed to make clinical trials more efficient. The role demands the skills and experience of a seasoned architect who is passionate about using state-of-the-art mobile technologies to build platforms and products, and who is capable of leveraging existing IQVIA capabilities and platforms in an optimal way to expedite time-to-market.

The director routinely exhibits a high degree of facility with new and emerging mobile technologies, and must provide strong leadership to:

• Guide a highly skilled technical team in the development of robust industry-leading software products and user-centric solutions;

• Build on-top of an integrated mobile technologies to bring disparate clinical capabilities and systems together;

• Design Mobile Applications, underlying REST APIs, and other interface methods to enable flexible integration with other systems of disparate technologies and inherent integration capabilities;

• Collaborate with the Product Development & Management teams by clearly articulating the target technical environment and direction, and ensuring compliance with those parameters;

• Ensure that capabilities are implemented securely congruent with the standards of the pharma industry;

• Assure consistency, reusability, and deep integration of a substantial product portfolio;

• Meet all business and customer requirements that may impact architectural elements of the Clinical Trial product suite;

• Ensure that the product teams are apprised of relevant technology advancements, and facilitate discussions related to the general application of new and emerging concepts, tools, products and platforms.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience as an architect or developer of enterprise mobile products and solutions;

• A minimum of 5 years as hands-on Mobile architecture and development, in a lead capacity;

• Deep expertise in leveraging mobile technologies - iOS, Android, React, React Native, Flutter and other cross-platform mobile frameworks;

• Significant experience with APIs, GraphQL, web services, and general integration challenges and solutions and ideally the MuleSoft platform;

• Significant experience designing integrated mobile solutions for AWS, Azure or comparable environments;

• Significant experience in Agile and/or Kaizen environments;

• Working knowledge of usage of information security practices in the pharma and/or healthcare industries;

• Experience in the Life Sciences, Healthcare or clinical drug development domains;

• Cloud Developer, Administrator and Architect-level Certifications highly desirable;

• Exceptional written, verbal and presentation communication skills;

• A proven track record of leadership and mentoring;

• The ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with little direct supervision