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You might be surprised to learn the situation in hospitals israther different. Systems used for electronic healthcare records (EHR)facilitatethe clinical workflow, retrieving and storing information for each patient. There is, however, a large need for secondary usage of this data. Think of linking patients to clinical trials, medical research studies, and care quality assessment. For thispurposeIQVIA has developed a search engine enablingmedical professionals to find patient cohorts and collect data. In all that we do, we have the doctors and patients at the fore of our mind, and we also ensure to strictly adhere to privacy regulations.\nPatient Finder is currently usedon a daily basisby 40+ hospitals in The Netherlands and Belgium and is expanding into other international markets.The product is a scale-up within a larger corporation, meaningthe product is provenwhilethere is stillroom to make your own mark and propose creative solutions.\nThe roleand your profile\nWe are seeking aLead Data Engineerto drive technical direction ofdata pipeline and data warehouselayersbringingproductrobustness andmaturity. You are comfortable leading work across evolving platforms and stakeholders: aligning on target patterns, ensuring continuity for users and downstream consumers, and delivering incremental improvements while keeping reliability and quality high.\nYou can make decisions when multiple potential approaches areidentifiedtaking into accountexisting codebase, reduction of operational overhead, teamstrengthsand business priorities.\nYou will have the ability to mentor and coach data engineering colleagues to support their weekly responsibilities, ongoing professional development, jobsatisfactionand career potential.\nYou are a hands-on, self-directed individual who canbring experience in data engineering toidentifyincremental or substantial areas of improvement, leading onimplementationwithbest practices.\nYou are a professional who is passionate about improving healthcare and having a real impacthavingdeveloped yourself as a data engineer with a software engineering background. You have an appetite to learn and develop yourself, an innate curiosity, and can bring to light clarity around abstract and unclear problems. You feel comfortable working in a self-organizing company.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead end-to-end design and delivery of the data platform (pipelines + warehouse layers), primarily using Prefect, Python and SQL, supported by fit-for-purpose design artefacts and lineage.\nDrive platform evolution by standardising patterns, reducing operational overhead, and improving maintainability and reliability across the data landscape.\nEnsure continuity and quality during change via release planning, validation strategies, risk management, and clear technical stakeholder communication.\nPartner with Product and Engineering to refine requirements, shape delivery plans, and prioritise backlog/work intake based on value, dependencies, and technical constraints.\nRaise engineering standards through reviews, quality practices, and responsible AI-assisted engineering (e.g., accelerating development and strengthening tests/refactoring under clear controls).\nCollaborate with QA to increase test maturity, coverage, and automation for pipelines and data transformations.\nCollaborate with Application and AI/ML leads to integrate data components with the wider product ecosystem (e.g., search and ML pipelines).\nLead the data engineering team (line management where applicable), coaching engineers and owning work intake andprioritisation.\nRequirements\nExtensive hands-on experience in Python development, with a strong focus on building scalable, maintainable, testable, and production-grade solutions.\nProven experience designing, developing, and maintaining ETL/ELT data pipelines using modern orchestration frameworks such as Airflow, Prefect, Luigi, or Dagster.\nExperience in dbt (Data Build Tool) for data transformation, data modelling, testing, documentation, and deployment within modern analytics ecosystems.\nExperience working with Databricks, including data engineering workflows, and optimization of large-scale data pipelines.\nAdvanced SQL skills with hands-on experience in Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or other enterprise RDBMS platforms, including both DDL and DML operations.\nDemonstrated experience building and managing cloud-based data platforms, data warehouses, and Lakehouse architectures.\nExperience leading development teams or serving as a senior technical contributor, providing architectural guidance and technical mentorship.\nAbility to make independent architecture and design decisions while balancing scalability, maintainability, performance, and business requirements.\nStrong understanding of data engineering best practices, including data quality, lineage, observability, governance, and performance optimization.\nProven track record of leveraging automation and AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, test coverage, and maintainability in a secure and controlled manner.\nExperience with DevOps practices, including version control, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code principles.\nExcellent ability to communicate complex technical concepts and business value propositions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nStrong collaboration skills with experience working in agile teams of four or more developers, providing constructive feedback and embracing technical discussions.\nExcellent interpersonal, presentation, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.\nHigh attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality solutions.\nExceptional written and verbal communication skills in English.\nBased in Europe, preferably within commuting distance of Amsterdam, Netherlands.\nNice to have\nKnowledge of medical data standards such as FHIRbased data exchangeand/or OMOP\nExposure to healthcare/life sciences/clinical trials/pharmaceutical data\nMasterDataManagementofideally medicalontologies\nData lineage\nDutch language skills are a plus for local collaborationand accessing local data sources\nOpportunities\nYou will be a part of innovation in the medical field, contributing to improved outcomes for healthcare patients and providers\nYou will have the opportunity tobe responsible fortechnical communication and preparation in cross-team projects. This will often mean online collaboration with international colleagues.\nYou willcollaborate with Machine Learningspecialistsgaining exposure toML andNatural Language Processing (NLP)\nMedical data is an interesting problem space, both in complexity and in societal value. The texts are a domain of its own with extremely high information density. It gives a real kick when users let us know they were able to collect data they were unable to use previously, such as finding people with a rare disease that might take years otherwise to diagnose or rapidly building quality datasets for COVID research\nYou will be part of a larger, cross-functionaland dynamic team consisting of developers, designers, medicalconsultantsandMLengineers.\nAbout us\nOur Data team currently consists of 1 product owner, 5developers.\nThe Patient Finder team consists of approximately 30 people organised across three development squads (App, Data,AI/ML), Deployment, Support and Consultancy.\nPatient Finder team is part of a larger healthcare product portfolio across the EMEA region within the IQVIA business.\nOur teamlargely worksfromhomebut employees are free to choose between office, home, or hybrid work locations. Data team typically attend the office weekly.\nIQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com\nIQVIA is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements, misrepresentations, or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application, or termination of employment if discovered later, in accordance with applicable law. 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