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: Lead Cheminformatics Engineer
Career Level: E
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to redefine an industry and change lives? In Early Science, we have a team of highly skilled scientists generating ideas and performing experiments that support complex drug discovery projects. Our environment flourishes with scientific and technical innovation, with diverse workflows, data, vendor solutions, and in-house builds. As a Lead Cheminformatics Engineer, you'll work alongside Computational and Medicinal Chemists, Software and Data Engineers, Architects, and Analysts to design and implement scientific solutions end-to-end. Your scientific knowledge and technical acuity will be essential in solving and providing innovative solutions, ensuring smooth experiences for our scientists and software development team. Your work will directly impact the science we do, enabling our scientists to undertake groundbreaking research that is not possible today. Are you ready to make the impossible possible?
Accountabilities:
Join our distributed team of cheminformaticians, scientific software engineers, and devops engineers in our Augmented-DMTA platform. Here's what you'll do:
Be a domain expert with knowledge of cheminformatics and computational chemistry tools used in drug discovery.
Work with ground breaking technology stacks in a cloud environment to solve scientific challenges for drug discovery.
Design and implement scientific software and data solutions to enhance the ease, learning, delivery speed, and quality across all therapeutic areas.
Create novel products and features to address long-standing problems in drug discovery, focusing on producing exceptional user experiences.
Collaborate with product, design, data science, software engineering, and scientists to build ground breaking experiences and services.
Propose and implement changes to our drug discovery data models, core architecture, and codebase.
Develop all levels of the technical stack with a strong focus on scalable backend services.
Help less experienced software engineers through mentoring and feedback.
Proactively review and improve the scalability, reliability, performance, and availability of drug discovery services.
Advocate for meticulous engineering practices: code reviews, automated testing, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc.
Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with new technologies, participate in technology communities, and mentor other engineering community members.
Propose engineering solutions for scientific problems using critical thinking and analysis skills.
Essential Skills/Experience:
The role requires senior-level technical skills, and we consider the below essential capabilities:
Expertise in Cheminformatics, ML, or a related field and experience working with one of the cheminformatics toolkits.
Expertise in one or more languages like Python, Java, Node.js with the willingness and ability to quickly adapt to a new language.
Some experience with end-to-end web development with at least one of the web frameworks: FastAPI, Flask, Spring, Django, etc.
Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases and knowledge of query optimization techniques.
Proficiency in Linux environments.
Demonstrable abilities with coding standard methodologies including testing, code review, and version control.
Excellent teamwork, verbal, and written communication skills.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
The following skills would be advantageous for your application but are not considered crucial:
CI/CD experience with some automation tooling like Jenkins, TravisCI, Github actions, etc.
Demonstrable high proficiency in data structures and design patterns.
Experience in chemistry data standardization, transformation, and harmonization combining multiple data sources.
Experience in cloud services and tools.
Experience with data and/or compute pipelining tools either generic or cheminformatics-specific ones.
Basic understanding of Machine Learning concepts and MLOps.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with GitOps.
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.
At AstraZeneca, you'll be part of a dynamic environment where innovation is at the forefront. Our work has a direct impact on patients by transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak by combining ground breaking science with leading digital technology platforms and data. With a passion for impacting lives through data analytics, AI, machine learning, and more, you'll join us at a crucial stage of our journey to become a digital and data-led enterprise. Here you can design your own path while being supported all the way. It's a place for lifelong learning where everything we do matters.
Ready to take ownership and lead? Apply now to join us on this exciting journey!
AstraZeneca 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
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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