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 – SAP BASIS
Career Level: E
Introduction to role:
This is an opportunity to lead innovative SAP operations that power the development of life-changing medicines. Join us at the center of our SAP landscape transformation! We are modernizing our SAP platforms, scaling S/4HANA, and applying agentic AI and AIOps to deliver zero-touch, resilient operations.
You will partner with architects, BASIS engineers, application teams, and cloud specialists as we streamline end-to-end SAP operations across ABAP and HANA. How would you design automation agents and self-healing pipelines that cut toil and accelerate recovery, while improving reliability where it matters most—supporting the science, manufacturing, and supply chains that reach patients?
Accountabilities:
Platform Architecture and Sizing: Guide high-level architecture decisions, system sizing, and infrastructure requirements for large-scale SAP systems, ensuring designs meet performance, security, and cost objectives.
End-to-End Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and continuous improvement ideas to define objectives and deliver outcomes that elevate the SAP estate.
Integration Strategy: Advise on technical approaches for systems integrating with SAP, aligning interfaces, identities, and data flows for robust, scalable operations.
Roadmap and Transformation: Define the SAP platform roadmap and recommend best practices for digital enablement, migrations, and modernization across the enterprise.
Product Ownership for Technology-Enhanced Operations: Lead the SAP operations product with advanced capabilities as a senior individual contributor—design to production—setting vision, guardrails, and measurable impact.
Agentic AI within Operations: Define and lead all aspects of agentic AI that automates detection and remediation, creates self-healing pipelines, and orchestrates event-driven workflows aligned to run/operate SLOs.
AIOps and Observability: Lead implementation of observability, predictive analytics, and AIOps to reduce toil, improve MTTR, and enhance resilience spanning the ABAP and HANA systems.
Autonomous Remediation: Design AI agents to auto-detect and remediate BASIS issues, from enqueue server failures and dialog queue build-ups to long-running jobs, start/stop anomalies, and HANA memory pressure.
Zero-Touch Automation: Integrate AI-powered runbooks with Ansible and hyperscaler automation (AWS Systems Manager, Azure Automation, GCP Cloud Ops) to enable closed-loop actions and zero-touch recovery.
Cloud Reference Architectures: Define reference architectures for SAP on cloud—networking, HA/DR, security, backup/recovery, scaling—with infrastructure as code and immutable/desired-state configurations.
Influence and Partnership: Drive technical outcomes without formal line management authority, crafting architecture and partnering across BASIS, application, data, security, and cloud teams to deliver business value.
Essential Skills/Experience:
Deep understanding of SAP Basis workstream and hands-on leadership across SAP components such as SAP ECC, SAP APO, SAP BW, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Fiori, SAP BO, SAP GRC, and SAP SLD.
At least one full lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementation and support experience.
Cloud implementation and migration experience on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure hyperscalers.
Knowledge of hardware infrastructure (IBM/HP/Dell) running SAP systems.
In-depth skills and expertise in Service Management, Release Management, and Technical Deployment.
Good communication skills, leadership abilities, and customer management.
Working knowledge of latest SAP offerings such as SAP BTP, Cloud ALM, SAP Build, SAP Data Sphere, SAP Integration Suite, and migration/greenfield S/4HANA patterns.
Infrastructure as code (Terraform), configuration management (Ansible), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/GitLab), and OS-level automation for Linux distributions commonly used by HANA.
Practical use of AI agents or machine learning for anomaly detection, runbook automation, and remediation; ability to engineer event models and guardrails for safe operations.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
SAP certifications (e.g., Basis/HANA, S/4HANA) and hyperscaler certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Splunk, OpenTelemetry) and SRE practices.
Advanced HANA performance tuning, capacity planning, and memory management expertise.
Experience with S/4HANA brownfield/greenfield migration patterns and near-zero-downtime upgrade methods.
Automation at scale using Ansible, Terraform modules, and GitOps or equivalent experience practices; immutable infrastructure and desired-state configurations.
Integration with enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow for incident, change, and automated remediation workflows.
HA/DR design across multiple regions/zones, backup/recovery strategies, and resilience engineering.
Security-first architecture for SAP on cloud, including identity, zero-trust networking, audit, and compliance.
Experience in regulated environments (e.g., GxP) and familiarity with validation approaches.
Cost optimization and FinOps practices for SAP workloads on cloud.
Why AstraZeneca:
Join a technology organization that pairs scientific ambition with leading digital platforms to unlock the full potential of data, AI, and automation. We bring unexpected teams in the same room unleashing bold thinking—from hackathons to production-grade solutions—backed by investment and a clear mandate to scale. Your SAP and AI expertise will directly accelerate the delivery of breakthrough medicines, while you develop modern ways of working with colleagues who value kindness alongside ambition.
Call to Action:
Step into a role where your architecture, AI innovation, and leadership will build zero-touch SAP operations that matter—submit your details today and join us as we build the next chapter of digital transformation!
Date Posted
23-Jun-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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