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IQVIA

Runs drug trials and sells health data to pharma

Senior Health Data Semantics Consultant

Technology & Systems ConsultingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMontreal, QC, CanadaIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree is required.
  • Three to five years of professional experience, preferably in healthcare and/or life sciences.
  • Good understanding of healthcare data standards and semantic technologies, including FHIR, SNOMED, CDISC, IDMP, RDF/OWL, and FAIR data principles; strong knowledge in selected areas and broader understanding of the semantics and interoperability landscape.
  • Basic understanding of artificial intelligence and knowledge graphs and their applications in healthcare and life sciences, including basic AI literacy.
  • Ability to work with data using Python, SQL, or similar scripting or query languages.
  • Ability to translate business requirements into clear, practical solutions.
  • Ability to work collaboratively across the organization to accomplish team and project goals.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills, including managing competing priorities and meeting deadlines.

Responsibilities

  • Review and analyze client requirements and business challenges, and contribute to proposal development.
  • Identify issues and contribute to developing appropriate solutions, implementation strategies, and roadmaps.
  • Assess the potential business value of semantic technologies and approaches.
  • Develop detailed project documentation, business and technical requirements, and specifications.
  • Support analysts and consultants in developing and structuring presentations, recommendations, and client deliverables.
  • Work with healthcare and life sciences data using relevant standards, semantic technologies, and interoperability approaches.
  • Support projects involving semantic models, knowledge graphs, and artificial-intelligence-related use cases where applicable.
  • Use Python, SQL, or similar scripting or query languages to work with and analyze data.
  • Develop knowledge of consulting services, methodologies, and the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and life sciences industries.
  • In a business analyst capacity, validate client deliverables and provide direction to offshore project teams.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams to support successful project delivery.

Desired Qualifications

  • An advanced degree or relevant educational background in a computational, medical, life sciences, or related discipline is valued.
  • Knowledge of consulting methodologies, tools, and techniques relevant to the functional area is preferred.
  • Understanding of relevant industry trends, developments, and the competitive landscape is preferred.

About the Company

IQVIA

Runs drug trials and sells health data to pharma

IQVIA runs clinical trials for drug, biotech and medical device companies and sells them the health data, software and analytics they use to develop and market treatments. Its research arm designs studies, recruits trial sites and patients, and manages trials through to regulatory filing. Its commercial arm sells market data, consulting and software that pharma sales and marketing teams use to plan product launches. Clients pay through multi-year service contracts and data and software subscriptions. IQVIA was formed in 2016 when clinical research firm Quintiles merged with health data company IMS Health, and it is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Durham, NC
Founded
1998

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