Big Data Engineer, Predictive Analytics at IQVIA, The Human Data Science Company (London, UK)

We are looking for a creative, innovative and intellectually curious and entrepreneurial Big Data Software Engineer to join our London-based team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in one of the world's leading RWI teams working with Real World Insights to help our clients answer specific questions globally, make more informed decisions and deliver results.

Our Predictive Analytics team within the Real World Insights (RWI) Technology division is a fast growing group of collaborative, enthusiastic, and entrepreneurial individuals. In our never-ending quest for opportunities to harness the value of Real World Evidence (RWE), we are at the centre of IQVIA's advances in areas such as machine learning and cutting-edge statistical approaches. Our efforts improve retrospective clinical studies, under-diagnosis of rare diseases, personalized treatment response profiles, disease progression predictions, and clinical decision-support tools.

The team

You will join this high profile team to work on ground-breaking problems in health outcomes across disease areas including Ophthalmology, Oncology, Neurology, Chronic diseases such as diabetes, and a variety of very rare conditions. The Predictive Analytics team work hand-in-hand with statisticians, epidemiologists and disease area experts across the wider global RWE Solutions team, leveraging a vast variety of anonymous patient-level information from sources such as electronic health records. The data encompasses IQVIA's access to over 530 million anonymised patients as well as bespoke, custom partnerships with healthcare providers and payers.

The role

You will be working in a team of highly talented Engineers and Data Scientists. Your main responsibility will be to write highly performant and scalable code that will run on top of our Big Data platform (Spark/Hive/Impala/Hadoop). Also, you will be working closely with the Data Science team to support them in the ETL process (including the cohorts building efforts).

What to expect:

Working in a cross-functional team – alongside talented Engineers and Data Scientists

Building scalable and high-performant code

Mentoring less experienced colleagues within the team

Implementing ETL and Feature Extractions pipelines

Monitoring cluster (Spark/Hadoop) performance

Working in an Agile Environment

Refactoring and moving our current libraries and scripts to Scala/Java

Enforcing coding standards and best practices

Working in a geographically dispersed team

Working in an environment with a significant number of unknowns – both technically and functionally.

Our ideal candidate: Essential experience

BSc or MSc in Computer Science or related field

Strong analytical and problem solving skills with personal interest in subjects such as math/statistics, machine learning and AI.

Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms

Proficient in Scala, Java and SQL

Strong experience with Apache Spark, Hive/Impala and HDFS

Comfortable in an Agile environment using Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI)

Experience refactoring code with scale and production in mind

Familiar with Python, Unix/Linux, Git, Jenkins, JUnit and ScalaTest

Experience with integration of data from multiple data sources

NoSQL databases, such as HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB

Experience with any of the following distributions of Hadoop - Cloudera/MapR/Hortonworks.

Bonus points for experience in:

Other functional Languages such as Haskell and Clojure

Big Data ML toolkits such as Mahout, SparkML and H2O

Apache Kafka, Apache Ignite and Druid

Container technologies such as Docker

Cloud Platforms technologies such as DCOS/Marathon/Apache Mesos, Kubernetes and Apache Brooklyn.

We know that meaningful results require not only the right approach but also the right people. Regardless of your role, we invite you to reimagine healthcare with us. You will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve human health outcomes.

Whatever your career goals, we are here to ensure you get there!

We invite you to join IQVIA™.

IQVIA is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We believe that a work environment that embraces diversity will give us a competitive advantage in the global marketplace and enhance our success. We believe that an inclusive and respectful workplace culture fosters a sense of belonging among our employees, builds a stronger team, and allows individual employees the opportunity to maximize their personal potential.

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