Why choose AstraZeneca India?
Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Ownership takers
If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.
Challenge seekers
Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.
Proactive collaborators
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.
Responsibilities
Job Title: Senior Data Engineer - Data Pipelines
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to architect FAIR data platforms that accelerate discovery and turn complex science into deployable insights? Do you want your engineering decisions to remove data friction, power analytics, and help deliver life-changing medicines faster?
In this role, you will design and operate the data foundations our scientists and analysts rely on to explore disease biology, generate evidence, and make bold decisions. You will work across high-performance computing and cloud environments to create secure, scalable pathways for data to move from experiments to models to actionable results.
You will join a collaborative, curious team that fuses data and technology with cutting-edge science. By building canonical models, trusted pipelines, and resilient infrastructure, you will help reduce time-to-insight, improve reproducibility, and enable the next wave of breakthroughs.
Accountabilities:Data Platform Architecture: Design and implement robust, secure, and scalable data platforms and services that enable discovery, access, and reuse (FAIR) and remove barriers to scientific analysis.
Modeling and Warehousing: Define canonical data models and dimensional schemas; build lakehouse/warehouse layers that optimize storage and query performance to speed up evidence generation.
Data Integration: Create reliable ingestion frameworks for structured and unstructured data; standardize metadata, lineage, and cataloging to make data findable and trustworthy.
Governance and Quality: Establish and enforce standards for data quality, access control, retention, and compliance; implement monitoring and observability for proactive issue detection and continuous improvement.
Infrastructure Engineering: Operate solutions across Unix/Linux HPC and AWS cloud environments; engineer for reliability, cost efficiency, scalability, and sustainable performance.
Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: Translate scientific and business requirements into clear architectural designs; partner with CPSS stakeholders, R&D IT, and DS&AI to co-create solutions that deliver measurable value.
Engineering Excellence: Apply version control, CI/CD, automated testing, design patterns, and code review to ensure maintainability, resilience, and a high bar for software craftsmanship.
Enablement and Information Exchange: Produce documentation, reusable components, and mentorship that uplift data engineering practices across teams; mentor peers and champion platform adoption.
Essential Skills/Experience:Data platform architecture: Design and implement robust, secure, and scalable data platforms and services that enable discovery, access, and reuse (FAIR).
Modeling and warehousing: Develop canonical data models, dimensional schemas, and lakehouse/warehouse layers; optimize storage and query performance.
Data integration: Build reliable ingestion frameworks for structured and unstructured data; standardize metadata, lineage, and cataloging.
Governance and quality: Establish standards for data quality, access control, retention, and compliance; implement monitoring and observability.
Infrastructure engineering: Operate solutions across Unix/Linux HPC and cloud environments (AWS preferred); ensure reliability, cost efficiency, and scalability.
Collaboration: Translate scientific and business requirements into architectural builds; partner with CPSS collaborators, R&D IT, and DS&AI to co-create solutions.
Engineering excellence: Apply version control, CI/CD, automated testing, design patterns, and code review to ensure maintainability and resilience.
Enablement: Produce documentation, reusable components, and guidance to uplift data engineering practices across teams.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
Hands-on expertise with Python or Scala and distributed data processing frameworks (Spark, PySpark); experience with SQL at scale.
Experience with modern lakehouse and warehouse technologies (Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg or Hudi, Redshift, Snowflake, Athena, BigQuery) and data modeling tools and practices (Dimensional, Data Vault).
Familiarity with orchestration and data workflow tools (Airflow, Argo, Dagster), event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), and metadata/governance platforms (Collibra, Alation, AWS Glue).
Cloud engineering skills in AWS services relevant to data (S3, EMR, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, ECS/EKS) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Operating experience in Unix/Linux HPC environments, job schedulers (SLURM), containerization, and secure data access patterns for scientific workloads.
Observability and reliability practices (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch), cost optimization, and performance tuning for large-scale analytics.
Strong communication skills to align diverse collaborators, translate domain concepts into technical builds, and drive adoption through documentation and enablement.
Relevant certifications or demonstrated leadership in data platform architecture, governance, or cloud engineering.
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to
inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge
perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that
doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual
flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
Why AstraZeneca:
At AstraZeneca you will engineer where impact is immediate and visible—your pipelines will shape evidence, accelerate decisions and help bring new treatments to people sooner. We bring experts from different fields together to solve hard problems quickly, backed by modern platforms across HPC and public cloud so your work runs at scale. Leaders remove barriers, teams share knowledge openly and we value kindness alongside ambition, giving you room to innovate while staying grounded in real patient outcomes.
Call to Action:
If you are ready to architect the data flows that move science into the clinic, send us your CV and tell us about the toughest pipeline you have built and scaled.
Date Posted
24-Dec-2025Closing Date
05-Jan-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Lifelong learning
Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.
Autonomy and reward
Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.
Health and wellbeing
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.
Inclusion and diversity
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.
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