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Senior Consultant-Data Engineer

Posted date Dec. 11, 2024
Contract type Full time
Job ID R-208454
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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 ID R-208454 Date posted 12/11/2024

Job title - Senior Consultant-Data Engineer

Career Level - D2

Leverage technology to impact patients and ultimately save lives Do you have expertise in, and passion for, information technology? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the IT strategy in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.
ABOUT OUR IT TEAM
It’s a dynamic and results-oriented environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There arecountless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that’s exploring new technologies in hackathons, or redefining the roles and work of colleagues, forever. Shape your own path, withsupport all the way. Diverse minds that work cross- functionally and broadly together.
At AstraZeneca, we're not just about creating life-changing medicines; we're about creating a culture of innovation and collaboration. We have taken on an ambitious goal of revolutionizing antibody discovery at AstraZeneca by significantly reducing the time it takes to discover aclinical candidate using world-class technology and advanced data & AI capabilities. To support this initiative, we are building Augmented Biologics Discovery Platform within the R&D IT. We're looking for a Data Engineer with a focus on data testing and validation. In this role you will join a global team of engineers (software, data, MLOps), architects, BAs, PMs, in our Augmented Biologics Platform to support biologics and antibody drug discovery.
The following will form part of the role
Responsible for designing and implementing software-based solutions to make our science easier to do, easier to learn from, and offer faster delivery and higher quality across biologics discovery.
Design and build novel products and features to address long-standing problems in drug discovery with a focus on producing amazing user experiences that are more than thesum of their parts.
Collaborate with product, design, data science, and our scientific teams to build cutting- edge experiences and services.
Propose and implement changes to our data models, core architecture, and codebase. Develop data products with state-of-the-art data technologies even if you’ve not worked with those before
Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help developand evangelize a vibrant software engineering culture.
Collaborate in the transformation of an estate of siloed systems into an ecosystem thatdelivers great user experiences.
Plan, implement and support core infrastructure development collaboratively with an overall objective to improve the scalability, reliability, performance, and availability.
Passionate to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community.
Working with cutting edge technology stack in cloud environment
The skills required.
Experience designing, implementing data products supporting bespoke analytics and AI applications.
Proficiency in languages such as Python, Java for data manipulation, analysis, andengineering tasks.
Strong hands on experience on python framework(Ex: Dataframes, Pandas, Regix, oracledb etc..)
Proficiency in database management systems such as SQL and NoSQL databases
(e.g.,OracleMySQL,PostgreSQLMongoDB) for data storage and retrieval.
Strong Knowledge of creating and consuming APIs (FastAPI , RESTful, etc.) is importantfor integrating the backend with other systems and services.
Familiarity with cloud platforms such asAWSfor deploying and managing data engineering solutions.
Solid experience using data related services in AWS Data services like DMS, SCT,RDS, Aurora, Redshift etc.
Experience of data analysis – profiling, investigating, interpreting, and documenting data structures.
Experience in performance tuning SQL and understanding ETL pipelines. Knowledge of
ETL processes and tools (e.g.,Informatica, Talend, etc) for data ingestion,transformation, and loading into target data systems
Extensive experience in troubleshooting data issues, analyzing end to end data pipelines and in working with users in resolving issues.
Good experience in consuming or exposing web services (i.e. SOAP, REST).
Proficiency in using version control systems like Gitfor managing codebase changes and collaboration with other data engineers and developers.
Excellent verbal and written skills for effective communication with a variety of personas including, engineers, testers, architects, product managers, scientists, etc.
The following skills would be advantageous for your application but are not considered
Essential:
Design, develop, and deploy production-grade scalable data products using containertechnologies like Docker and Kubernetes with a focus on data testing and validation.
Production experience delivering CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD, TravisCI, Git).
Experience working in Bioinformatics / Computational or molecular biology domain.

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.

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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.

Sales Representative Oslo, Norway

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.

Sales Representative California, United States

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.

Sales Representative Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

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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