Senior AI Tech Lead

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. The role is within the ATS CAITI Development Team focused on Agentic AI solutions.

Experience:

• 8+ years in software engineering roles with hands‑on leadership as a senior developer, tech lead, or lead engineer delivering complex systems.
• Proven experience leading technical execution across the SDLC including integration, testing strategy support, and production release readiness.
• Experience delivering AI‑enabled or data‑intensive products in regulated or enterprise contexts is strongly preferred.

Agentic & Technical Background:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or equivalent practical experience spanning product management, software delivery, and AI/data systems.
• Strong engineering fundamentals in software design, APIs/integration, data flows, and distributed systems considerations.
• Working knowledge of architecture principles including security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Strong CI/CD and engineering hygiene including automated testing, code review discipline, environment readiness, and operational awareness.

• Lead hands‑on technical execution for Agentic AI capabilities across PoC, MVP, and Production, ensuring delivery and production‑grade quality.
• Translate architecture and product intent into a clear build plan including components, sequencing, integration approach, and technical risks.
• Define and enforce engineering practices: coding standards, PR/review quality bar, branching strategy, and "done" criteria for agentic workflows.
• Implement and guide development of key agentic components such as orchestration logic, tool/API integrations, retrieval patterns, guardrails, and human‑in‑the‑loop flows.
• Own technical unblock and troubleshooting including resolving complex defects, integration issues, performance bottlenecks, and environment/build pipeline problems.
• Drive release readiness from a technical standpoint including dependency readiness, versioning, deployment checks, rollback considerations, and operational handover inputs.
• Ensure vendor‑delivered technical work aligns to standards through review, integration oversight, and quality controls.
• Collaborate with QA/Validation to ensure the solution is testable and traceable with appropriate evidence generation through the SDLC.
• Partner with the Solutions Architect to ensure adherence to enterprise patterns, security/privacy expectations, and architectural constraints.
• Post‑release, drive reliability and performance tuning, manage technical debt, and improve observability to support ongoing stability of agentic behaviors in production.

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