# Lead Data Engineer

**Company**: IQVIA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to drive technical direction of data pipeline and data warehouse layers bringing product robustness and maturity. You will lead end-to-end design and delivery of the data platform (pipelines + warehouse layers), primarily using Prefect, Python and SQL.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead end-to-end design and delivery of the data platform

- Drive platform evolution by standardising patterns, reducing operational overhead, and improving maintainability and reliability

- Ensure continuity and quality during change via release planning, validation strategies, risk management, and clear technical stakeholder communication

- Partner with Product and Engineering to refine requirements, shape delivery plans, and prioritise backlog/work intake

- Raise engineering standards through reviews, quality practices, and responsible AI-assisted engineering

- Collaborate with QA to increase test maturity, coverage, and automation for pipelines and data transformations

- Collaborate with Application and AI/ML leads to integrate data components with the wider product ecosystem

- Lead the data engineering team, coaching engineers and owning work intake and prioritisation

Requirements:

- Extensive hands-on experience in Python development

- Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining ETL/ELT data pipelines

- Experience in dbt (Data Build Tool) for data transformation, data modelling, testing, documentation, and deployment

- Experience working with Databricks, including data engineering workflows, and optimization of large-scale data pipelines

- Advanced SQL skills with hands-on experience in Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or other enterprise RDBMS platforms

- Demonstrated experience building and managing cloud-based data platforms, data warehouses, and Lakehouse architectures

- Experience leading development teams or serving as a senior technical contributor

- Strong understanding of data engineering best practices

- Proven track record of leveraging automation and AI-assisted development tools

- Experience with DevOps practices, including version control, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code principles

- Excellent ability to communicate complex technical concepts and business value propositions

- Strong collaboration skills with experience working in agile teams

- High attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality solutions

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English

Nice to have:

- Knowledge of medical data standards such as FHIR based data exchange and/or OMOP

- Exposure to healthcare / life sciences / clinical trials / pharmaceutical data

- Master Data Management of ideally medical ontologies

- Data lineage

- Dutch language skills are a plus for local collaboration and accessing local data sources

Opportunities:

- You will be a part of innovation in the medical field, contributing to improved outcomes for healthcare patients and providers

- You will have the opportunity to be responsible for technical communication and preparation in cross-team projects

- You will collaborate with Machine Learning specialists gaining exposure to ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)

- Medical data is an interesting problem space, both in complexity and in societal value

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Prefect
- SQL
- ETL/ELT data pipelines
- dbt (Data Build Tool)
- Databricks
- Microsoft SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- cloud-based data platforms
- data warehouses
- Lakehouse architectures
- DevOps practices
- version control
- automated testing
- CI/CD pipelines
- infrastructure-as-code principles

### Nice to have
- FHIR based data exchange
- OMOP
- medical ontologies
- data lineage
- Dutch

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