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: Senior Analyst - Data Catalogue Specialist
Career Level - D
Introduction to role
The GBS Data Office (GDO) supports Commercial and Enabling Units business areas. As a Data Catalogue Specialist, you will be responsible for the systems, business rules, and processes that ensure data is findable, accessible, and fit for use by one or more business units. This role achieves its objectives through the capture of metadata and the development of the data catalogue.
Accountabilities
Data Catalogue
Support the Data Catalogue Principal to define Information Asset Registers across business areas to help profile information risk/value.
Participate in projects to mitigate and control identified priority risk areas.
Take responsibility for nominated markets/business areas, develop domain knowledge, and leverage internal customer relationships to respond to localized use cases.
Act as point of contact for nominated business areas or markets.
Support initiatives to enhance the reusability and clarity of our data by making it available in our global data catalogue.
Support the capture of user requirements for functionality and usability, and document technical requirements.
Work with IT partners to collect metadata for relevant data sets and lineage, and populate the catalogue.
Work with data stewards and business users to enrich catalogue entries with business data dictionary, business rules, glossaries.
Execute supervising controls to assure metadata quality remains at a high level.
Support catalogue principles and data governance leads for tool evaluation and UAT.
Essential Skills/Experience
Demonstrable experience of working in a data management, data governance or data engineering domain
Strong business and system assessments skills
Proven experience with Data Catalogue, Search and Automation software (Collibra, Informatica, Talend etc)
Ability to interpret and communicate technical information into business language and in alignment with AZ business
Solid grasp of metadata harvesting methodologies and ability to build business and technical metadata sets
Strong engagement, communication and collaborator leadership skills, including good interpersonal, presentation and influencing skills
High level of proficiency with common business applications (Excel, Visio, Word, PowerPoint & SAP business user)
Desirable Skills/Experience
Proven experience of working with Commercial or Finance data and systems (Veeva, Reltio, SAP) and consumption
Domain knowledge of life sciences/pharmaceuticals; manufacturing; corporate finance; or sales & marketing
Experience with data quality and profiling software
Experience of working in a sophisticated, diverse global organisation
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 daring world.
At AstraZeneca, you will be part of a team of specialists that is needed to our growth. Here, entrepreneurial and innovative thinking is encouraged to make things happen in a creative yet rigorous environment. Our global network allows us to use combined skills and expertise to find new solutions that accelerate our impact. The company is committed to investing in your growth and development, keeping you ahead of your peers. We value respect, inclusivity, and flexibility, ensuring you feel at home from day one.
Ready to make an impact? Apply now!
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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