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 Manager - Data Engineering Lead
Career Level: E
Introduction to role
Are you ready to disrupt an industry and change lives? At AstraZeneca, we are on a mission to transform our ability to develop life-changing medicines by combining ground breaking science with leading digital technology platforms and data. As a Senior Manager - Data Engineering Lead, you will be at the forefront of this transformation, driving the success of our data platform initiatives. Based at the Chennai GITC, you will lead a team of data engineers, develop and implement the data engineering strategy, and ensure the quality and reliability of our AWS and Databricks-driven data platforms. Your expertise in Databricks, PySpark, and AWS will be essential in implementing industry best practices and standards. Are you ready to make the impossible possible?
Accountabilities
As the Data Engineering Team Lead for the US data platform, your key accountabilities will include:
1. Leadership and Mentorship:
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, secure data infrastructure and tools to support data analytics and science teams.
- Mentor and manage a team of Data Engineers to produce high-quality, dependable, and scalable data products.
2. Technical Expertise:
- Demonstrate expert understanding of AstraZeneca’s application development processes in the implementation of data products.
- Function as an integral member of DevOps teams, participating in development tasks, with firsthand experience in ETL tools and expertise in PySpark and Databricks.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior members of the data engineering team.
3. Collaboration:
- Work closely with Product Engineers and the CriticalOps team to share standard processes across all product release cycles for consistency.
- Collaborate with data engineers to deeply understand data sources, transformations, and dependencies.
- Develop and maintain a collaboration plan with Capability partners and business collaborators to ensure effective communication and alignment.
- Partner with vendor managers to streamline the onboarding process for contract resources and ensure high-quality deliverables.
4. Innovation and Process Improvement:
- Drive the adoption of innovative technologies and tools to enhance data engineering processes and efficiency.
- Recommend and implement improvements to enhance the reliability, efficiency, and quality of data processing pipelines.
Essential Skills/Experience
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Skills and Experience:
- Strong expertise in Databricks and PySpark.
- Minimum 10 years of data engineering experience.
- Proficiency with the AWS suite of applications.
- Comprehensive understanding of quality engineering principles and standard methodologies.
- Excellent leadership and team management abilities. Minimum 5 years of technical leadership and people management experience.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot and deliver solutions in complex data environments.
- Experience in developing and implementing quality engineering strategies.
- Demonstrated experience in leading and mentoring quality engineering teams.
- Experienced in Agile Development techniques and methodologies.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical partners.
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Certifications in AWS and Databricks.
- Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python.
- Rigorous diligence and a commitment to maintaining high-quality standards.
- Firsthand experience with data pipeline and data integration processes.
- Familiarity with data governance and data management practices.
- Solid understanding of data modeling, ETL processes, and data warehousing concepts.
- Experience working in agile and exciting environments.
- Prior considerable experience working in Pharmaceutical or Healthcare industry IT environment.
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 empower our employees to lead, innovate, and take ownership. Working here means you'll be a self-starter who is comfortable stepping up, exploring new possibilities, solving challenges, and continuously pushing boundaries. Our dynamic environment offers countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether it's through hackathons or redefining roles. With investment behind us, there's no slowing us down as we drive cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry.
Ready to make a meaningful impact? Apply now to join our team!
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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