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
Director - Software Development, Cell Therapy IT
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to build the digital backbone that delivers next‑generation cell therapies to patients at scale?In this role, you will build and deliver the software platforms that power end‑to‑end activities related to cell therapy across development, manufacturing, and supply. Your work will directly influence how quickly and safely therapies move from treatment sites to manufacturing lines and back to patients.
You will lead a global engineering organization to compose, build, and industrialize enterprise-grade systems—spanning a Cell Orchestration platform built on Salesforce, AWS- services, and agentic AI automation. Partnering closely with operational and technology leaders, you will define a modern, scalable stack and translate strategy into robust, compliant solutions that drive speed, quality, and reliability. Based in Chennai, India, you will be at the center of a high-impact mission with global reach. How will you scale intelligent automation to orchestrate one of the most complex supply chains in healthcare?
3. Accountabilities:
- Technology Planning and Architecture: Define and evolve a scalable technology strategy and reference architecture that underpins cell therapy operations from vein-to-vein, aligning platform choices with business outcomes.
- Platform Leadership: Lead the build and delivery of the Salesforce-based cellular coordination system, ensuring it is robust, scalable, secure, and fit for regulated environments.
- SDLC Ownership and DevSecOps: Own end-to-end software delivery from design to deployment and support, embedding DevSecOps, automation, and built-in quality to accelerate releases and reduce risk.
- Integration and Interoperability: Orchestrate integrations across Salesforce Service & Life Sciences -Cloud, MuleSoft, mobile-first apps, AWS services, and event streaming (e.g., Kafka) to enable seamless data and workflow continuity.
- Regulatory and Compliance Readiness: Bake compliance into every phase (GxP, HIPAA, FDA, GDPR), establishing traceability, validation, and auditability without slowing down delivery.
- Agentic AI Development or similar Automation experience is essential. Support advancing agentic AI to build autonomous software agents. They complete complex operational tasks and make decisions safely and at scale.
- Technical Roadmap: Life Sciences Cloud: Guide the industrialization of Agent-force Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud and the Advanced Therapy Module to enable next-generation cell therapy delivery.
- Engineering Excellence and GenAI-Enabled SDLC: Establish best- practices for full-stack engineering and leverage GenAI for code generation, testing, and SDLC automation to boost productivity and quality.
- Talent Leadership and Culture: Build and mentor a high-performing global-team of engineers and solution architects, cultivating innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Vendor and Partner Management: Manage external partners to deliver quality, secure, and compliant solutions, optimizing for value and speed.
- Innovation and Future-Readiness: Stay ahead of LLMs, autonomous agents, and cloud-native advances; translate emerging tech into practical upgrades that modernize systems and unlock new capabilities.
4. Essential Skills/Experience:
- Bachelor's - degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of software development experience, including 5+ years in a leadership role within life sciences, biotech, or manufacturing IT environments.
- Experience managing sophisticated Salesforce environments and multi-cloud implementations.
- Experience in leading multiple Product Development teams globally with engineering and delivery ownership
- Experience building and deploying software solutions in regulated environments (GxP , HIPAA, FDA).
- Expertise in modern development tools and platforms: AWS, Azure, Python, Salesforce (Service Cloud and Life Sciences), MuleSoft, Confluent / Kafka.
- Expertise delivering digital solutions across patient engagement, R&D, and product commercialization.
5. Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Salesforce certifications (e.g., Salesforce Application Architect, System Architect, Platform Developer II).
- Familiarity with AI/ML features within Salesforce ecosystem (Einstein, predictive analytics).
- Understanding of GenAI use cases in software development and automated testing.
Hands-on experience with Agentic AI tools and frameworks
- Solid background in system architecture, secure coding practices, and cloud-native design.
6. Why AstraZeneca:
Join a purpose-led team where advanced technology meets scientific ambition to change what’s possible for patients. Here, unexpected teams—engineers, data scientists, and operational leaders—get in the same room to tackle problems that matter, with the investment and freedom to experiment through hackathons, prototypes, and scaled delivery. You will help build the digital capabilities that accelerate medicines to those who need them, supported by a collaborative culture that values kindness alongside ambition, rigorous standards alongside creativity, and continuous learning at every step.
7. Call to Action:
If you’re ready to lead the platforms and AI-powered systems that deliver cell therapies faster and more reliably, take charge from Chennai. Develop what comes next.
Date Posted
19-Aug-2026Closing Date
30-Aug-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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