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 Bioinformatician
GCL: D2
Introduction to role
Are you ready to tackle some of the most challenging informatics problems in the drug discovery clinical trial phase? Join us as a Senior Bioinformatician and be part of a team that is redefining healthcare. Your work will directly impact millions of patients by advancing the standard of drug discovery through data processing, analysis, and algorithm development. Collaborate with informaticians, data scientists, and engineers to deliver ground breaking solutions that drive scientific insights and improve the quality of candidate drugs. Are you up for the challenge?
Accountabilities
- Collaborate with scientific colleagues across AstraZeneca to ensure informatics and advanced analytics solutions meet R&D needs.
- Develop and deliver informatics solutions using agile methodologies, including pipelining approaches and algorithm development.
- Contribute to multi-omics drug projects with downstream analysis and data analytics.
- Create, benchmark, and deploy scalable data workflows for genome assembly, variant calling, annotation, and more.
- Implement CI/CD practices for pipeline development across cloud-based and HPC environments.
- Apply cloud computing platforms like AWS for pipeline execution and data storage.
- Explore opportunities to apply AI & ML in informatics.
- Engage with external peers and software providers to apply the latest methods to business problems.
- Work closely with data scientists and platform teams to deliver scientific insights.
- Collaborate with informatics colleagues in our Global Innovation and Technology Centre.
Essential Skills/Experience
- Masters/PhD (or equivalent) in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, AI/ML, Genomics, Systems Biology, Biomedical Informatics, or related field with a demonstrable record of informatics and Image analysis delivery in a biopharmaceutical setting.
- Strong coding and software engineering skills such as Python, R, Scripting, Nextflow.
- Over 6 years of experience in Image analysis/bioinformatics, with a focus on Image/NGS data analysis and Nextflow (DSL2) pipeline development.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms preferably AWS (e.g. S3, EC2, Batch, EBS, EFS etc) and containerization tools (Docker, Singularity).
- Experience with workflow management tools and CI/CD practices in Image analysis and bioinformatics (Git, GitHub, GitLab), HPC in AWS.
- Experience in working with any multi-omics analysis (Transcriptomics, single cell and CRISPR etc ) or Image data (DICOM, WSI etc) analysis.
- Experience working with any Omics tools and databases such as NCBI, PubMED, UCSC genome databrowser, bedtools, samtools, Picard or imaging relevant tools such as CellProfiler, HALO, VisioPharm particularly in digital pathology and biomarker research.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with team members and partners to achieve objectives.
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Experience in Omics or Imaging data analysis in a Biopharmaceutical setting.
- Knowledge of Dockers, Kubernetes for container orchestration.
- Experience with other workflow management systems, such as (e.g. Apache Airflow, Nextflow, Cromwell, AWS StepFunctions).
- Familiarity with web-based bioinformatics tools (e.g., RShiny, Jupyter).
- Experience with working in GxP-validated environments.
- Experience administering and optimising a HPC job scheduler (e.g. SLURM).
- Experience with configuration automation and infrastructure as code (e.g. Ansible, Hashicorp Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Cloud Developer Kit).
- Experience deploying infrastructure and code to public cloud, especially AWS.
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.
At AstraZeneca, we are driven by a shared purpose to push the boundaries of science and develop life-changing medicines. Our innovative approach combines ground breaking science with leading digital technology platforms to empower our teams to perform at their best. We foster an environment where you can explore new solutions and experiment with groundbreaking technology. With countless opportunities for learning and growth, you'll be part of a diverse team that works multi-functionally to make a meaningful impact on patients' lives.
Ready to make a difference? Apply now to join our team as a Senior Bioinformatician!
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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