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 Consultant - Data Ops Engineer
Career Level - E
Introduction to role
Operations IT is a global IT capability supporting the Global Operations organization. We partner with various Operations capability areas including Pharmaceutical Technology Development, Manufacturing & Global Engineering, Quality Control, Sustainability, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Global External Sourcing and Procurement. Our operations span across hub sites in the UK, Sweden, US, and China, as well as our Global Technology Centres in India and Mexico.
Our work directly impacts patients by transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak by combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. With a passion for impacting lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning, and more, we offer a dynamic and challenging environment with countless opportunities to learn and grow. This is your chance to be part of a team that has the backing to innovate, disrupt an industry, and change lives.
Accountabilities
Leadership & Strategy
- Assess current state of platforms, define future state needs, identify gaps, recommend new technology solutions and strategic business execution improvements, and support product roadmap development consistent with overall strategic needs.
- Understand data mesh and data product WoW, apply technology and tools to improve data product WoW.
Data Foundation Platforms
- Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of robust Data Foundation services for Snowflake and integration tools.
- Responsible for both PlatformOps and FinOps where applicable.
- Manage and optimize the technology stack, ensuring alignment with security, architecture, compliance, and performance standards.
- Ensure automation is at the heart of our processes and technologies to ensure effective and responsive delivery timeframes.
- Provide technical support to the project delivery organization throughout the project lifecycle.
- GitHub Actions Development – writing up new actions as per business needs (e.g., composite or dockerized).
Quality Assurance
- Implement and oversee robust quality assurance processes to ensure the accuracy, reliability, and security of data.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of the data foundation platforms.
Essential Skills/Experience
- Strong experience with Snowflake administration and development is essential.
- Extensive experience in implementation & management of data, analytics & AI platforms.
- Extensive experience in CloudOps, DevOps, DataOps, and infrastructure setup and maintenance.
- Experience with Airflow and dbt.
- Experience with Python and Linux.
- Experience with DevOps practices (CI/CD, GitHub Actions).
- FinOps experience - cost optimization in Snowflake, AWS.
- Experience with IaC with Terraform.
- Strong knowledge of BI landscape, data warehouse solutions, including cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake.
- AWS experience with (but not limited to) EC2, S3, IAM, r53, DynamoDB, Lambda, RDS, ECR, EKS, Networking.
- Experience in knowledge graph platforms.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies.
- A proven track record of working in engineering technologies with the technical expertise and ability to make connections between technology and delivering business value. Pharma sector experience is a plus.
- Strong communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills with AZ teams, peers, and third-party suppliers.
- Ability to work in diverse multinational teams and proven ability to influence others to achieve positive outcomes.
- Experience in Docker, Jira, NodeJS, Artifactory, SonarQube (a plus).
Desirable Skills/Experience
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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.
AstraZeneca offers an environment where you can make a positive impact within a team dedicated to delivering more medicines to patients quicker and more affordably. With investment, leadership support, and a clear plan for growth, we are committed to making people's lives better. Our inclusive community supports each other on our journeys while embracing diverse opportunities for global careers.
Ready to make a difference? Apply now to join our team!
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
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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