Job Description

Database Administrator

Responsibilities

As a Database Administrator with IQVIA, you’ll be responsible for design and/or modification of design of existing databases to solve database processing problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time and form of desired results. You’ll be tasked to:

Ensures that databases meet required operational standards and performance levels (as measured by reliability, response time, query execution time, etc.).
Act as senior consultant for lower staff providing technical advice and consultation on database analysis and database design reviews.
Prepares recommendations based on potential database design and implementation approaches implementation approaches as well as backup and recovery strategies.
Participates in the administration, monitoring, tuning and support of databases in the production environment

Skills & Experience

Candidates interested in joining IQVIA as a Database Administrator should have:

Demonstrate analytical, interpretative and problem-solving skills
Well-developed written and verbal communication skills including presentations, meeting and workshop facilitation, business and report writing
Strong capability in juggling priorities so that deadlines are met while retaining consistently high-quality outcomes
Hands on experience administering high availability MS SQL and/or Oracle databases.
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with others in and across the organization to accomplish team goals

Qualifications & Other requirements

In addition to the skills and experience above, candidates interested in joining IQVIA as a Database Administrator should have:

Strong academic track record including bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related discipline or knowledge acquired through equivalent experience and a minimum of eighth (8) years of information technology experience with a minimum of five (5) years of experience in the database administration area
Oracle and distributed databases experience are nice to have.
Excellent conversational and business English (written and oral); additional languages an advantage
Experience working with distributed teams, preferably onshore-offshore combination

Valid through: 1/19/2021

About IQVIA

IQVIA, formerly Quintiles and IMS Health, Inc., is an American multinational company serving the combined industries of health information technology and clinical research. It is a provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services, focused primarily on Phase I-IV clinical trials and associated laboratory and analytical services, including consulting services. It has a network of more than 58,000 employees in more than 100 countries. As of 2019, IQVIA was reported to be one of the world's largest contract research organizations. In 1982, Dennis Gillings founded and incorporated Quintiles Transnational in North Carolina. Quintiles Transnational established Quintiles Pacific Inc. and Quintiles Ireland Ltd. in 1990. In 1991 Quintiles GmbH was established in Germany and Quintiles Laboratories Ltd. was established in Atlanta, Georgia. In September 1996, Quintiles purchased Innovex Ltd. of Britain for $747.5 million in stock. Quintiles went public in 1997 and completed a successful secondary stock offering. Over the course of 2016, concluding on October 3, Quintiles underwent a $17.6 billion merger with IMS Health, becoming QuintilesIMS. As a result of the merger, the OneKey worldwide healthcare professionals database developed by Cegedim Relationship Management became part of QuintilesIMS. In November 2017, the company adopted the new name of IQVIA, and changed its ticker symbol on the NYSE from Q to IQV.

Total Jobs:

145

Total Experts:

Average Pay:

$127,676

Total value of jobs:

$66,775,000

% Masters:

32%

Learn More About IQVIA view all icon

* Ladders Estimates