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 - Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Career Level :E
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to turn Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Data Cloud into engines that deepen patient engagement and accelerate breakthrough medicines? Can you picture leading a high-impact roadmap that converts sophisticated data into significant, compliant experiences across millions of touchpoints?
As Lead Consultant, you will architect and operationalize multi-channel marketing capabilities that connect our scientific breakthroughs to the people who need them. Working closely with marketing leaders and technical teams, you will design scalable data models, automate journeys, and extend platforms to deliver measurable outcomes—speed to market, precision personalization, and trusted data activation.
This role is made for a hands-on leader who flourishes with ownership, clarity of outcomes, and real-world impact. You will start by stabilizing and optimizing current journeys, then guide adoption of new Salesforce features that unlock performance at global scale, always with the patient in mind.
Accountabilities:
Salesforce Solution Design: Design, develop, and maintain custom solutions within Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Data Cloud that directly support business goals and patient engagement outcomes.
Data Cloud Modeling and Segmentation: Create and optimize data models, queries, and custom objects to power advanced segmentation, personalization, and analytics that lift campaign performance.
Campaign Orchestration: Build and automate sophisticated multi-channel journeys using Journey Builder, Email Studio, Mobile Studio, and related tools; quantify impact and iterate quickly.
Automation and Reusability: Develop reusable templates, automations, and workflows that compress cycle times and improve operational efficiency across markets.
API and Integration Engineering: Develop and handle APIs, automation scripts, and custom components to extend platform capabilities and connect data reliably across the enterprise.
Compliance and Data Governance: Embed GDPR, CCPA, and internal standards into data handling and activation; champion privacy-by-design and audit-ready processes.
Performance Optimization: Supervise platform health end to end, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements to ensure high availability, resilience, and speed at scale.
Issue Resolution and Reliability: Fix and resolve technical issues across integrations, data processing, and campaign execution; implement root-cause fixes that prevent recurrence.
Platform Advancement: Know the latest with Salesforce releases and standards; lead proofs of concept and guide adoption that unlocks new business value.
Documentation Excellence: Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for custom developments, integrations, and workflows to enable repeatability and visibility.
Enablement and Training: Deliver training and support to marketing and technical teams on Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Data Cloud protocols; raise capability and self-sufficiency.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Overall, 10+ years of development experience with a minimum of 8+ years of MarTech development, with a solid focus on Salesforce Marketing and Data Cloud.
- Design, develop, and maintain custom solutions within Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) and Salesforce Data Cloud, tailored to meet specific business needs.
- Create and optimize data models, queries, and custom objects in Salesforce Data Cloud to support advanced segmentation, personalization, and analytics.
- Develop and manage APIs, automation scripts, and custom components to extend the capabilities of SFMC and Data Cloud.
- Work with marketing teams to build and automate sophisticated multi-channel campaigns within SFMC, using Journey Builder, Email Studio, Mobile Studio, and other SFMC tools.
- Develop reusable templates, automations, and workflows within SFMC to streamline campaign execution and improve operational efficiency.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) in all data handling processes.
- Supervise the performance of SFMC and Data Cloud, identifying and implementing opportunities for optimization to ensure high availability and efficiency.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to platform integrations, data processing, and campaign execution.
- Stay up to date with the latest Salesforce releases, features, and standard processes, continuously enhancing the organization’s use of the platforms.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for all custom developments, integrations, and workflows within Salesforce platforms.
- Deliver training and support to marketing and IT teams on SFMC and Data Cloud standards, ensuring effective platform utilization.
- Strong programming skills in languages such as AMPscript, SQL, JavaScript, and Apex, with experience in API development and automation.
- Expertise in Salesforce Data Cloud, including data modelling, data integration, and customer data management.
- Proficiency in Salesforce Marketing Cloud tools, including Journey Builder, Email Studio, and Automation Studio.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Knowledge of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) and their implications on marketing data processing.
- Superb communication, problem-solving and analytical skills
- Familiarity with modern development practices and the software development life cycle.
- Ability to handle multiple priorities, meet deadlines and produce quality results under pressure.
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite daring 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 bold world.
Why AstraZeneca:
Here, technology and science advance side by side to deliver medicines that change lives. You will work at the heart of a high-reaching digital strategy with the investment, trust, and freedom to experiment—bringing unexpected teams togethfuel spark ideas, running proofs of concept that become real capabilities, and seeing your work ripple across the enterprise to reach patients. We value perseverance alongside ambition, encourage open collaboration, and offer countless opportunities to learn—hackathons, multi-functional projects, and modern platforms—so your impact grows with every release.
Call to Action:
Ready to lead with Salesforce expertise and turn data into life-changing impact? Send us your CV today and shape what comes next.
Date Posted
13-Feb-2026Closing Date
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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