Principal Product Architect role

What is the Role about?

You will be an architecture lead of one of four Product Domains (Data Collection, Data Acquisition, Data Warehousing and Data Provisioning) to define their technical strategies and execute with a team of Product Directors, Product Managers and ArchitectsAs an architect you will assist the Product Strategy and Management organization, which is responsible for defining strategies, roadmaps and plan to consolidate the company’s solutions and manage investment.We expect skills and experience in enterprise and software architecture, data management solutions, data warehouses, big data technologies, delivery and healthcare. Experience with data technologies and the ability to align technical vision with business objectives are essential.

What will you be doing?

Architectural Vision & Strategy: own the technical architecture roadmap for products, technical capabilities and nonfunctional requirements.Design Leadership: Lead the design of end-to-end solutions, including system integration, data flow, infrastructure, and advise on optimizing data operations on transactional and big data workloads.Collaboration: Collaborate with product directors, product managers, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and features to translate these into solution designs. Work with engineering teams to translate business needs into technical solutions. Align technical roadmap with enterprise architects and data platform strategyInnovation & Continuous Improvement: Stay current with new trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to incorporate AI features and assess ways to enhance existing systems. Evaluate potential adoption of new technologies.Budget and Forecasting: Contribute to development of product investment plans, resource allocation, and long-term technical forecasts, lead estimation processes

What is required to get the job done?

10+ years of experience in software architecture, with 5+ years in data-centric domains, including designing and delivering enterprise data platformsExcellent communicator and collaborator.Excellent mentorship and leadership skills.Expertise in data architecture patterns (e.g., lakehouse, data mesh, ELT/ETL).Strong understanding of APIs, integration, and metadata exchange.Experience in system modeling with languages such as ArchiMate, C4 Model, and UML.Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).Hands-on experience with cloud-native data services (Azure preferable) and big data technologies.Understanding of domain driven design, microservices.Strong SQL-based data experienceString experience in one of the following areas:Collecting data from a huge range of sources and formats and establishing common data standards in this areaDesigning data delivery systems for multiple clients and technologies with varied business rulesDeveloping enterprise data platforms to standardize, and harmonize data from multiple sources for analysisBuilding enterprise solutions for managing global and local master and reference data.

IQVIA 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