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
GCL: D1/D2
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to keep critically meaningful laboratory information management and biological sample storage platforms running perfectly so scientists can move faster to deliver life-changing medicines. In this role, your engineering decisions will directly protect research continuity, data integrity, and the pace of discovery across a complex, global environment!
You will be the technical backbone for our Biobank and LIMS ecosystem, integrating SaaS applications with enterprise systems, strengthening data pipelines, and automating support workflows. Can you picture yourself turning sophisticated integration challenges into simple, resilient services used by teams worldwide? Join a team that uses modern integration, data, cloud, and emerging AI capabilities to help the enterprise run at speed for patients.
Accountabilities:
LIMS and Biobank Application Support: Lead the stability and performance of LIMS and Biobank SaaS products, ensuring high availability, swift recovery, and strong vendor engagement to protect research operations.
Integration Engineering (MuleSoft): Design, develop, and support robust APIs and integration flows with comprehensive error handling and monitoring that make data and processes flow reliably across systems.
Data Fix (Snowflake and PostgreSQL): Investigate, validate, extract, and reconcile data to resolve issues quickly and improve data quality and audit readiness.
Automation and Scripting: Build lightweight tools and utilities in Python or Ruby to eliminate manual effort, reduce incident volume, and accelerate root-cause analysis.
Cloud Operations (AWS): Support applications and integrations hosted on AWS, applying core cloud concepts to improve reliability, scalability, and cost awareness.
Service Management (ITIL): Lead incident, problem, change, and service request processes with clear ownership, strong communication, and measurable service improvements.
Agile Release Delivery: Chip in across planning, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-release stabilization for major releases, bringing predictability and speed to delivery.
Cross-Functional Teamwork: Partner with application, infrastructure, security, data, business, and vendor teams to align priorities, remove blockers, and deliver outcomes that matter to end users.
Operational Excellence and Knowledge: Build and maintain user documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge articles that enable consistent, high-quality support at scale.
AI-Enabled Support Innovation: Explore and pilot GenAI and agentic solutions to enhance troubleshooting, knowledge management, and operational efficiency, turning learning into measurable productivity gains.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- 7+ years of IT/software engineering experience, preferably within the Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences industry.
- Strong experience supporting LIMS and/or Biobank SaaS products.
- Hands-on experience with SaaS application support, incident fix, integrations, releases, and vendor coordination.
- MuleSoft Developer experience with MuleSoft certification.
- Good solid understanding of Snowflake and PostgreSQL, including SQL.
- Basic scripting/programming experience in Python or Ruby.
- Basic knowledge of AWS cloud services and concepts.
- Understanding of ITIL principles and IT service management processes.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Experience participating in major application release projects.
- Strong analytical, fixing, problem-solving, and social skills.
- Ability to work efficiently across geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or a related rigor.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
Practical experience working with AI agents, Generative AI, LLM-based tools, or AI-powered automation.
Experience creating basic AI agents using enterprise AI platforms or LLM frameworks, AWS or ITIL/Agile certification.
Knowledge of GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, and ALCOA+ principles.
Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, application monitoring, and automated testing.
Experience working with global teams and external SaaS/product vendors.
Why AstraZeneca:
Here, your engineering craft powers science at scale. You will join a high-performing, digitally fluent community that is integrated across the enterprise, using modern platforms and data-driven practices to remove friction and speed progress for teams focused on patients. We bring diverse authorities together to challenge assumptions, co-create aggressive solutions, and move quickly—balancing ambition with support, and patience with candor. You will see the impact of your work in how reliably our scientists operate each day, while gaining access to modern technology, complex global problems, and the freedom to turn practical ideas into real outcomes.
Call to Action:
Take the next step to own critical Biobank platforms, sharpen your impact across integrations and data, and help speed medicines to patients—your next breakthrough starts here!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Date Posted
04-Sept-2026Closing Date
17-Sept-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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