# Health Data Semantics Consultant

**Company**: IQVIA
**Location**: Montreal, Quebec
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Health Data Semantics Consultant to join our team. As a consultant, you will contribute to the development and delivery of high-quality solutions for client engagements, with a focus on helping clients implement semantic technologies, interoperability standards, and data-driven approaches.

Responsibilities:

- Review and analyse client requirements and business challenges and contribute to proposal development

- Identify issues and contribute to the development of appropriate solutions, implementation strategies, and roadmaps

- Assess the potential business value of semantic technologies and approaches

- Develop detailed project documentation, business and technical requirements, and specifications

- Support Analysts and Consultants in developing and structuring presentations, recommendations, and client deliverables

- Work with healthcare and life sciences data using relevant standards, semantic technologies, and interoperability approaches

- Support projects involving semantic models, knowledge graphs, and AI-related use cases, where applicable

- Use Python, SQL, or similar scripting/query languages to work with and analyse data

- Develop knowledge of consulting services, methodologies, and the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and life sciences industries

- In a Business Analyst capacity, validate client deliverables and provide direction to offshore project teams

- Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams to support successful project delivery

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree required. An advanced degree or relevant educational background in a computational, medical, life sciences, or related discipline is highly valued

- 3–5 years of professional experience, preferably within healthcare and/or life sciences environments

- Good understanding of healthcare data standards and semantic technologies, including areas such as FHIR, SNOMED, CDISC, IDMP, RDF/OWL, FAIR data principles

- Basic understanding of AI and knowledge graphs and their application within healthcare and life sciences contexts, including basic AI literacy

- Ability to work with data using Python, SQL, or similar scripting/query languages

- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

- Ability to translate business requirements into clear, practical solutions

- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively across the organisation to accomplish team and project goals

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

- Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines

What You'll Bring:

- Expertise and a strong interest in semantics and interoperability, along with a desire to improve healthcare and life sciences by helping organisations better leverage their data

- Collaborative and client-focused mindset, strong analytical capabilities, and the ability to translate complex business and data requirements into practical solutions

- Comfortable working across multidisciplinary teams, supporting client-facing engagements, and coordinating work across onshore and offshore teams

- Interest in emerging technologies, including AI and knowledge graphs, and understand how these technologies can complement semantic and interoperable data environments

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- FHIR
- SNOMED
- CDISC
- IDMP
- RDF/OWL
- FAIR data principles
- Semantic technologies
- Interoperability
- AI
- Knowledge graphs

### Nice to have
- Consulting methodologies
- Tools and techniques relevant to the functional area
- Industry trends
- Developments
- Competitive landscape

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