Associate Director, Digital Measurement Platform & Systems Engineering

About the role

IQVIA is looking for an Associate Director to lead the design, build, test, deploy and operation of production-grade platforms, backend systems, automation frameworks and deployment pipelines. The role covers digital measurement, healthcare and innovative product applications, including AI/ML deployment capabilities, and brings new technologies and engineering concepts to reality quickly and at scale.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the transformation of platform, systems, infrastructure and AI/ML engineering expertise into production-ready solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams while contributing to platform, data and AI/ML infrastructure.
• Drive development of platform, backend, cloud, data and deployment capabilities across products and initiatives.
• Evaluate and promote new architectures, technologies and engineering approaches with software, data and ML engineers and architects.
• Build and deploy production platforms, backend services, data pipelines, ML deployment frameworks and automation systems for scalable analytics, AI/ML and digital measurement.
• Improve performance, scalability, reliability and operational efficiency of production systems.
• Lead testing and validation of platforms, systems and deployment capabilities.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence or a related field.
• 10+ years designing, building and operating production-grade platforms, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines and ML deployment environments.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex platform, data and cloud infrastructure initiatives.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, data science, product and architecture teams.

Required skills

• Programming in Python, Java, C++ or equivalent.
• Cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, DevOps/MLOps, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
• Release management, monitoring, observability, security and operational best practices.

The potential base pay range is EUR 52,500 to EUR 89,300 per year, depending on qualifications, location and schedule; incentives, bonuses and other benefits may also apply.