# Business Intelligence Consultant with a strong back-end focus

**Company**: IQVIA
**Location**: Lisbon
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

At IQVIA, we're looking for a Business Intelligence Consultant with a strong back-end focus to join our Portugal-based team.

You'll help build robust data solutions and AI-ready semantic models that make trusted business data easier to understand, govern and use across analytics and AI-enabled applications.

Based in Portugal, you'll be part of our Lisbon team, collaborating with international colleagues and supporting projects for the Belgian healthcare and life sciences market.

If you enjoy turning business needs into reliable data products and want to grow at the intersection of BI, data engineering and AI, we'd love to hear from you.

**What you'll be doing**

- Translate business and data requirements into practical data integration, back-end and semantic modelling solutions.

- Design, develop and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, data transformations and curated data layers.

- Build and evolve dimensional and semantic models, including relationships, hierarchies, measures and reusable business definitions.

- Help make data AI-ready through consistent terminology, metadata, governance and data lineage.

- Collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts, data engineers, data scientists and front-end developers.

- Support data quality, performance optimisation and continuous improvement.

- Contribute across the project lifecycle, from requirements and design through development, testing and deployment.

**What you'll bring**

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data, Business Intelligence or a related field.

- Typically 3+ years of relevant experience in BI, data engineering, analytics engineering or a similar back-end role.

- Strong SQL, ETL/ELT and data integration skills.

- Experience with technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Informatica Cloud or SSIS.

- Understanding of data warehousing, dimensional modelling and Kimball principles.

- Experience with data and semantic modelling for BI and analytics.

- Familiarity with APIs and common data exchange formats.

- Professional proficiency in English.

- A collaborative, customer-focused and solution-oriented mindset, with curiosity and a strong sense of ownership.

**A plus if you have experience with**

- Healthcare, pharmaceuticals or life sciences

- Power BI semantic models, Analysis Services, dbt Semantic Layer, AtScale or similar technologies

- Metadata, data catalogues, lineage, governance or knowledge graphs

- AI-related concepts such as LLMs, RAG or vector search in enterprise analytics

- Power BI, Qlik Sense or QlikView

- Cloud data architectures, Agile, version control or CI/CD

- Veeva or other life sciences platforms

**Why join IQVIA?**

- Meaningful work: contribute to data solutions in an industry that directly impacts patients and society.

- Grow your expertise: develop your skills across BI, data engineering, consulting and AI.

- International exposure: work from Portugal while collaborating on projects for the Belgian market.

- Great people: join a supportive, knowledgeable and collaborative team.

- Flexibility: benefit from a hybrid working model.

- Interesting challenges: work with leading healthcare and life sciences organisations.

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- ETL/ELT
- data integration
- data warehousing
- dimensional modelling
- Kimball principles
- semantic modelling
- APIs

### Nice to have
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Informatica Cloud
- SSIS
- Power BI semantic models
- Analysis Services
- dbt Semantic Layer
- AtScale
- metadata
- data catalogues
- lineage
- governance
- knowledge graphs
- LLMs
- RAG
- vector search
- Qlik Sense
- QlikView
- Veeva

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