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 Consultant – Snowflake
Career Level: D1
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to shape a modern data platform that turns complex data into faster, smarter decisions? In this role, you will help define and evolve our Snowflake platform, enabling teams across AstraZeneca to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performing data solutions that directly influence how we discover and develop life-changing medicines.
You will join a mission-focused team accelerating our digital journey—uniting technology and expertise to improve how we interpret data and make decisions. Imagine empowering hundreds of data engineers with self-serve tooling and guardrails, all while integrating Snowflake with a rich ecosystem of adjacent platforms to drive real business impact. If you want to see your platform thinking translate into outcomes for patients and the company, this is where you can do it.
Accountabilities:
Platform Architecture and Enablement: Translate engineering use cases into scalable, secure Snowflake designs and configurations that unlock efficient use of warehouses, tasks, data sharing, Snowpark, and dynamic tables—so teams can deliver faster without compromising safety.
Service Maturity and Integration: Extend and mature the Snowflake service by integrating with adjacent platforms and services such as Databricks, Kafka, data catalog/lineage tools, and API gateways; build and optimize self-serve templates for onboarding, environments, and pipelines to reduce time-to-value.
Privacy, Access, and Governance by Design: Assess, architect, and implement complex access control and data privacy solutions using RBAC, ABAC, row/column-level security, masking policies, tags, and data domains—simplifying governance to improve cost efficiency and operability.
Automation and Operational Excellence: Automate metadata management, cost controls, and operational insights; design reporting for cost governance, reliability (SLOs/SLIs), and adoption metrics; drive CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and test automation for Snowflake objects and integrations to create a repeatable, reliable platform.
Reliability, Performance, and Guardrails: Optimize compute, storage, and concurrency through warehouse sizing, caching, clustering, and materialization strategies; establish benchmarking, tuning practices, and guardrails that keep performance consistent at scale.
multi-functional Partnership: Collaborate with teams across AstraZeneca to standardize patterns, codify standard methodologies, and accelerate delivery—balancing platform safety, compliance, and speed to improve impact.
Essential Skills/Experience:
Enable data engineers: Act as a senior technical authority within the Snowflake platform team—translate engineering use cases into scalable, secure platform designs and configurations that unlock efficient use of Snowflake features (warehouses, tasks, data sharing, Snowpark, dynamic tables).
Mature and extend the service: Integrate Snowflake with adjacent platforms and services (e.g., Databricks, Kafka, data catalog/lineage, API gateways), evaluate and enable new Snowflake capabilities, and build/optimize self-serve tooling and templates for onboarding, environments, and pipelines.
Design for privacy and control: Assess, architect, and implement complex access control and data privacy solutions—leveraging RBAC, ABAC, row/column-level security, masking policies, tags, and data domains—while simplifying governance to improve cost efficiency and operability.
Automate operations and governance: Automate metadata management, cost controls, and operational insights—design and implement reporting for cost governance, reliability (SLOs/SLIs), and adoption metrics; drive CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and test automation for Snowflake objects and integrations.
Champion reliability and performance: Optimize compute, storage, and concurrency (warehouse sizing, caching, clustering, materialization strategies); establish performance benchmarking, tuning practices, and guardrails.
Partner across AZ: Collaborate with BTGs and product teams to standardize patterns, codify standard methodologies, and accelerate delivery—balancing platform safety, compliance, and speed.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Deep expertise in SQL and Python for Snowflake, including Snowpark and UDFs
- Hands-on experience with Databricks, Kafka, and streaming data integrations
- Practical knowledge of data cataloging, lineage, and tagging strategies at scale
- CI/CD for data platforms using Git-based workflows and pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
- Infrastructure as Code for Snowflake and cloud resources (e.g., Terraform)
- Designing and implementing SLOs/SLIs, observability, and performance benchmarking for data platforms
- Cost optimization strategies and chargeback/showback models in Snowflake
- Experience operating in regulated environments with strong compliance requirements
- Strong stake holder management, communication, and the ability to influence platform adoption
- Relevant certifications (e.g., SnowPro Advanced, cloud provider certifications)
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.
Why AstraZeneca:
Join a team where platform engineers and data experts come together to unlock bold thinking and turn insights into impact for patients. You will work with modern data technologies at global scale, build trusted partnerships across the business, and see your solutions drive measurable outcomes—from faster experimentation to smarter decisions. We value kindness alongside ambition, give you the freedom to innovate, and back you with the investment and support to grow while contributing to a mission that truly matters.
Call to Action:
If you are ready to shape a high-impact Snowflake platform and see your work translate into outcomes that matter, step forward and help us build what’s next!
Date Posted
02-Feb-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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