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: Technical Product Lead
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Introduction to role:
Are you ready to turn complex supply chain data into intelligent products that accelerate medicines to patients? Do you thrive at the intersection of product leadership, sophisticated analytics and real-world impact?
As a Lead Technical Product Manager, you will oversee the strategy and delivery of data and AI products. These products help with planning, sourcing, and delivery in our global operations. You will partner with experts across manufacturing, supply chain, and technology to shape a product portfolio that boosts reliability, speed and agility, while introducing GenAI capabilities that elevate decision-making and productivity.
This is a hands-on leadership role that blends product thinking with technical depth. You will translate business objectives by developing technical plans, define scalable solution architectures, govern engineering delivery, and lead multi-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes. Your work will help the organization improve service levels, reduce operational risk, increase supply chain transparency, and ultimately accelerate the delivery of life-changing pharmaceutical products to patients.
- AccountabilitiesProduct Strategy and Alignment: Lead the development of technical products aligned with business goals, focusing on high-value supply chain outcomes and measurable impact.
- Solution Architecture Leadership: Define and govern end-to-end solution architecture for Data, Analytics, AI, and Digital Supply Chain products, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and business objectives.
- Data, AI & Innovation Enablement: Drive the adoption of Data, Analytics, AI, and Generative AI capabilities to enhance supply chain visibility, decision-making, and operational efficiency. Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, accelerating innovation through practical and scalable implementations
- Technical Delivery & Execution: Lead multi-functional delivery teams across Data Engineering, Knowledge Graph, Application Development, Analytics, and AI workstreams. Ensure successful execution through effective planning, dependency management, governance, and delivery excellence.
- Stake-holder & Vendor Leadership: Partner with business stake-holders, enterprise architects, product teams, and external vendors to align priorities, manage risks, and drive successful outcomes.
- Provide technical leadership across delivery partners while ensuring consistency to architecture, quality, and operational standards.
- Roadmap Decomposition: Break down feature epics into technical tasks, manage dependencies across teams, and remove blockers to maintain delivery momentum. Resource Optimization: Optimize resource allocation through data-driven prioritization, balancing short-term wins with long-term platform health.
- Scaling, Governance & Continuous Improvement: Establish operating models, governance frameworks, and reusable technology patterns that enable the long-term balanced growth of supply chain digital solutions. Drive continuous improvement through engineering excellence, data quality, observability, and platform optimization.
- Essential Skills / Experience
- Experience delivering large-scale Digital products in Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Logistics, Operations, or related domains. Proven ability to lead end-to-end delivery of complex technology programs involving multiple multi-functional teams and vendor partners.
- Strong Solution Architecture experience, including defining scalable application, integration, and data architectures aligned to enterprise standards. Hands-on experience with modern cloud-based Data Platforms and Data Engineering solutions, including data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving patterns.
- Experience working with enterprise-scale cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, or equivalent) and cloud-native architecture principles. Experience designing and implementing Enterprise Knowledge Graph solutions, including graph data modelling and platforms such as Neo4j.
- Experience with modern Data Warehousing solutions including Snowflake or similar cloud-based technologies. Solid understanding of API-led integration, application architecture, and modern web application delivery, including front-end frameworks (ex:React.js) and back-end/API technologies(ex:Node.js, FastAPI).
- Demonstrable ability to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps and generate tangible business impact comes. Strong stake-holder management, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to engage business, architecture, engineering, and vendor teams.
- Experience working within Agile product delivery environments. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related subject area, with equivalent experience also considered.
- Desirable Skills / Experience
- Experience within Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences, Healthcare, or other regulated industries.
- Experience with Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, and Decision Support solutions.
- Familiarity with Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Advanced Analytics use cases.
- Exposure to Generative AI, Conversational AI, Agentic AI, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
- Experience developing digital twin or control tower solutions for supply chain management. Experience establishing engineering governance, architecture review processes, and technology standards.
- Master's Degree, MBA, or other sophisticated qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant team.
Why AstraZeneca:
Join a global technology and data community that partners across boundaries to unlock the potential of science through digital products. Here, diverse minds gather—engineers, data scientists, product leaders, and supply chain experts in the same room—sparking bold ideas and turning them into reality. We are doubling down on our data-led ambition, investing in modern platforms and empowering teams to experiment, learn fast and scale what works. You will find the freedom to own outcomes, the backing to tackle complex challenges, and a culture that values courtesy alongside ambition. Your work will have a direct line of sight to patients, improving how medicines are made and delivered worldwide.
Call to Action:
Seize this opportunity to lead data and AI products that transform supply chains and accelerate patient impact—bring your expertise to AstraZeneca and help shape what’s next today!
Date Posted
04-Jun-2026Closing Date
17-Jun-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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