Icon plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisationFrom molecule to medicine, we advance clinical research providing outsourced services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisationsWith our patients at the centre of all that we do, we help to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of lifeOur people are our greatest strength, are at the core of our culture, and the driving force behind our successIcon people have a mission to succeed and a passion that ensures what we do, we do well.
Healthcare intelligence expertsSymphony health, part of the icon plc family, comprises curious thinkers and intellectual problem solvers driving the healthcare data industry forwardWe leverage our large, integrated healthcare data repository and our analytic expertise to build customized, agile data solutions which answer the questions our clients - life science manufacturers, payers, and providers - have today, as well as those they’ll have tomorrowTogether, we can help patients get the right drugs at the right times via our core offerings:
Integrated dataverse (idv®) - shs integrates a broad set of patient, prescriber, payer and clinical data together into our idv® to provide clients with the most comprehensive view of drivers of biopharmaceutical market demandShs delivers a comprehensive perspective on the real dynamics that drive business in the healthcare and life sciences markets.
Vantage™ applications & symphony healthcloud™ – shs offers a comprehensive suite of cloud-enabled applications to support commercial analytics and hosted data integration and management solutionsLeveraging their extensive experience with healthcare data, shs integrates and ensures the quality of data from a wide variety of sources, including claims, registry, lab and electronic health record (ehrs).
Consulting & services (c&s) – shs offers a comprehensive set of retrospective and prospective commercial analytics, enabling clients to leverage shs and other data to improve brand performanceWith deep expertise in patient analytics, promotion optimization, media measurement, targeting & segmentation and managed markets, shs offers our clients access to the expertise and analytics necessary to make effective decisions and improve their performance.
Our c&s unit is expanding in response to increased client demand for applications, cloud-hosting and data integration servicesBy leveraging shs’s comprehensive data assets, vantage applications, healthcloud platform and data integration capabilities, the hds practice offers customized, technology-enabled services to clients and acts as a key interface with internal technology and operations teams.
Responsibilities
What will you do? the healthcloud consultant is a proficient aws engineer who is responsible for designing and implementing aws tenants hosted by symphony or part of a symphony client’s tenantThe position requires a deep knowledge of aws, networking technologies, security standards and practices that can be leveraged to build and manage multiple client tenants simultaneouslyBecause we are a data services/consulting organization, a successful candidate will be effective connecting and managing various client aws environments and will demonstrate strong presentation skills for client-facing consultingMastery is required of our standard commercial data environment (cde) which includes the following elements:
Ec2 winserver
Ec2 linux server
Auto scalability and cost evaluation
Redshift / snowflake / athena
Build data warehouses and data models
Data normalization, standardization, error logging, exception handling techniques in dw and aws
Documentdb with mongo compatibility
Openvpn server, rds and nat gateway setup
Setup ai, ml and data science platforms like sagemaker, r
S3 data repository and sftp connections
Python and api integration
Db/aws performance tuning (esp large data volume with concurrent usage)
Essential duties and responsibilities:
Aws tenant building - the aws engineer is actively involved in the design of multiple client environments and ensures they are set up and maintained according to best practicesThis includes network setup and sso with various systems, interacting with aws environment and infrastructure recommendations based on client requirements.
Aws tenant management - the aws engineer is actively involved in security, user setup and maintaining aws resourcesAdministers, monitor and deploy systems and services on aws and other remote serversEnsures the availability, performance and scalability of proposed infrastructure.
Documentation – the aws engineer is responsible for maintaining the documentation of client environments to include the population of network topology drawings and runbooks that detail what was built and how.
Client/project team meetings - the aws engineer is responsible for demonstrating the aws environment capabilities of symphony hds in client meetings, communicates how the implementation will occur, manages their tasks to complete and contributes in client project team meetings—these are usually daily scrums as required.
Aws product offerings – contributes to the expansion of technology platforms for new, existing and/or potential hds product offerings.
Data architecture/data modeling – aws engineer will apply storage and network optimization techniques to create data martsThis role will also interact with large data volumes with a variety of data sets and apply database administration and query optimization techniques.
Lead – group of etl/aws developers
Qualifications
10+ years of experience in dw or aws
Aws certified solution architect – recommended
Aws developer associate - recommended (or oracle certified dba/security professional)
Successful project experience deploying, automating, maintaining and managing aws cloud-based production system, with demonstrated skills ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and security of productions systems.
Demonstrated project team and consulting experience for either external clients or internal departments
7+ years’ experience as a multi-tenant support aws engineer - solid hands-on working experience with configuring and maintaining resources on aws
7+ years’ experience with databases (redshift, documentdb, mongodb, postgressql)
5+ years’ experience with documentdb with mongo compatibility
5+ years’ experience with ec2 instances (configuration, ebs, snapshot, etc.)
3+ years’ experience with s3 / emd
2+ years’ experience with writing python scripts to develop bulk redshift loads
Network configuration (vpc, subnet, acls, elastic ip, …)
Security (iam, policies) - expertise with cloud security, such as managing users, roles, and privileges through iam
Etl (glue), pentaho, spectrum, talend, informatica
Lambda, athena, glacier , snowflake
Visualcron, autosys
Excellent verbal and oral communication skills
Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience may be considered in place of the education and experience stated aboveAll employees must read, write and speak fluent english and host country language.
This job description is intended to present the general content and requirements for the performance of this jobThe description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.
Benefits of working in icon: our success depends on the knowledge, capabilities and quality of our peopleThat’s why we are committed to developing our employees in a continuous learning culture – one where we challenge you with engaging work and where every experience adds to your professional developmentAt icon, our focus is to provide you with a comprehensive and competitive total reward package that comprises, not only an excellent level of base pay, but also a wide range of variable pay and recognition programsIn addition, our best in class employee benefits, supportive policies and wellbeing initiatives are tailored to support you and your family at all stages of your career - both now, and into the futureIcon, including subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassmentAll qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran statusIf, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know.
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