Technical Lead, API

IQVIA Digital is seeking a skilled and data-savvy Technical Lead, to help build and scale API-driven solutions that power our digital health ecosystem. This role goes beyond traditional backend development—it's about understanding the flow, structure, and value of data across digital platforms and ensuring seamless integration between systems. You will work closely with data engineers, product teams, and digital strategists to create APIs that not only serve functionality but also enable intelligent data exchange and insights generation.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable APIs that facilitate secure and efficient data exchange across digital health platforms.
- Collaborate with data teams to understand data models, pipelines, and governance requirements.
- Translate complex data requirements into API specifications that support analytics, reporting, and machine learning use cases.
- Ensure APIs are optimized for performance, security, and interoperability, including support for healthcare data standards (e.g.HL7).
- Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to the evolution of IQVIA’s digital data ecosystem.
- Monitor and troubleshoot API performance and data flow issues in production environments.
- Be the local technical lead and manage team for guidance, development, accountability.

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years of experience in backend or modern data engineering, API development, with a strong  experience with API architecture and design (REST best practices, auth, versioning, reliability).
• Solid cloud-native experience on AWS/GCP (API gateway, containers, serverless, observability).
• Proven ability to act as a technical lead – design reviews, mentoring engineers, setting standards.
• Comfortable with Python (or similar) enough to review code and contribute to key paths, even if not a pure Python specialist.
• Experience with Snowflake/BigQuery and data-engineering workflows.

Nice-to-haves

• Deeper, hands-on Python/FastAPI experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes/EKS or GKE.
• Healthcare / AdTech background.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

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

IQVIA 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. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.