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 - Workplace Agentic AI Governance
GCL: E
Introduction to role
Join us as a Lead Consultant for Workplace Agentic AI Governance & Copilot Studio Platform Engineering, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of enterprise AI agents. You will be responsible for architecting, implementing, and operating governance and engineering capabilities across M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and related services. Your expertise will guide the definition of control baselines, automation of policy enforcement, and engineering of secure environments for experimentation and scaling. Collaborate with architecture, engineering, product, and compliance teams to ensure secure-by-design delivery, measurable risk reduction, and operational excellence.
Accountabilities
- Define technology strategy, reference architecture, and roadmap for AI agent platforms.
- Design and own the agentic AI control library and implement automated policy enforcement.
- Engineer tiered environments with segregation of duties and controlled ALM pipelines.
- Author solution design patterns and maintain a catalog of approved components.
- Define identity, access, and data protection models.
- Govern integration and connector usage with risk-tiered approvals.
- Implement telemetry, observability, and reporting for platform compliance.
- Define CI/CD pipelines for agents and integrate security scans.
- Establish model and prompt governance with evaluation harnesses.
- Lead AI incident response and engineer resilience patterns.
- Maintain audit readiness and evidence management.
- Operationalize Responsible AI policies through controls and transparency artifacts.
- Build engineering playbooks and mentor teams on secure design and governance operations.
Essential Skills/Experience
- Enterprise AI/Automation Governance Engineering: Hands-on implementation of governance for low-code/no-code (Power Platform, Copilot Studio), including environment strategy, DLP, and policy enforcement.
- Microsoft Copilot Ecosystem Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of M365 Copilot and Copilot Studio configuration, plugins, data grounding, tenant settings, and feature enablement; experience with Graph API, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365 admin controls.
- Power Platform Administration and Development: Strong experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, solution packaging, ALM pipelines, Power Platform CLI, environment provisioning, and DLP policies.
- Identity, Security, and Data Controls: Practical application of Entra ID (app registrations, consent, Conditional Access), RBAC, managed identities, secrets management (Key Vault), Purview data governance/classification, sensitivity labels, and Defender integrations.
- Architecture and Patterns: Ability to produce reference architectures, threat models, and design patterns for agentic AI (prompt governance, grounding, connector risk management, human oversight).
- Risk and Compliance Operations: Working knowledge of AI risk scenarios, privacy (PII/PHI), data classification, and cybersecurity; experience implementing control testing, telemetry, and reporting for audits.
- Stakeholder and Supplier Management: Experience collaborating with architecture, product, engineering, security, and compliance; managing third-party suppliers and connectors with contractual and technical controls.
- Global Operations and Communication: Proven delivery across multi-time zone environments; ability to translate complex technical topics into stakeholder-specific language.
Experience Level
- 12+ years in technology architecture/engineering/governance, with deep hands-on experience in Microsoft Copilot ecosystem, Power Platform, and agentic AI platforms.
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Governance Boards and Component Catalogs: Running technical review boards, maintaining reusable component catalogs, SBOMs, and dependency governance.
- Responsible AI Standards: Familiarity with industry RAI frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC AI standards, Microsoft Responsible AI recommendations) and their technical operationalization.
- Testing and Evaluation: Experience with red-teaming LLMs, synthetic test generation, adversarial prompt testing, and evaluation metrics (accuracy, safety, usefulness).
- Platform Feature Integration: Track record enabling new Copilot/Copilot Studio features, agent builder capabilities, and managing technical risk, rollouts, and deprecations.
- DevSecOps for AI: Experience integrating security testing, policy-as-code, and observability into pipelines for agent solutions; infra-as-code for platform configurations.
- Documentation and Enablement: Excellent user documentation, playbooks, and facilitation for engineering teams; strong customer orientation and cross-cultural collaboration.
At AstraZeneca, we are at the forefront of transforming healthcare through modern science combined with leading digital technology platforms. Our work directly impacts patients by developing life-changing medicines. We empower our teams to innovate continuously in a dynamic environment where you can explore new technologies in hackathons or transform roles forever. With a focus on collaboration across diverse expertise areas within our Technology group, we drive exponential growth by creating new ways of working. Join us to be part of a global company investing in a bold digital strategy to disrupt the entire industry.
Ready to take on this exciting challenge? Apply now to join our team!
Date Posted
06-Jan-2026Closing Date
13-Jan-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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