Staff Architect

Staff Architect IQVIA Inc. Wayne PA. This is a hybrid position and must work in-office 1-2 days/week. May telecommute 2-3 days/week within commuting distance of Wayne PA office location to be able to attend meetings or work onsite when needed often on short notice. Provide Data engineering and build data pipelines on the Data Lake/Hadoop platform (SQL/Impala Java Scala/Spark). Design microservices architecture and deploy on dockers in private and public clouds and containers in Kubernetes environment. Architect Machine Learning pipelines and optimize data architecture for consumption utilization and analytics for data science machine learning and statistical use cases. Contribute to the creation of data lake store strategy consistent with standards principals theories and concepts to ensure rapid delivery. Work with data architects on logical data models and physical database designs optimized for performance availability and reliability. Tune and optimize backend and frontend data operations. Oversee the development of continuous integration and continuous deployment methodologies through the implementation of Maven Jenkins Git and Nexus to deploy the codebase. Mentor development team members and inform management of work activities and schedules. Assess new initiatives to determine work effort and estimate time to completion. Mentor and assist lower-level architects and business analysts. Create detailed documentation for deployment processes ensuring smooth and efficient implementation. Stay updated with the latest technological trends and advancements in the industry. Requires supervisory responsibilities for data engineers or related positions. Work M-F 8am 5pm (EST) with occasional weekend work as needed to meet project deadlines. Salary Range: $160826 - $239200/year.

Requires a bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical or Electronic Engineering Information Technology Mathematics Statistics or related field or foreign equivalent. Requires seven (7) years progressively responsible software or product development experience with a focus on architecture to include seven (7) years: utilizing Hadoop Big Data stack such as Hive Spark Scala Impala Java Python or similar; utilizing SQL; handling and processing large data sets (data warehouse sets with hundreds of terabytes of structured and semi-structured data); working on mainframes for legacy re-platforming work; two (2) years: utilizing Machine Learning (ML) dockers containerization and microservices architecture; and performing private and public clouds deployment. Requires less than 5% US travel to attend a workshop or training session at various IQVIA office locations. Apply: reference job #118178.

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