AstraZeneca Looking for R&D IT- CLOUD ENGINEERING – LEAD – CHENNAI at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

JOB TITLE : R&D IT- CLOUD ENGINEERING -LEAD – CHENNAI

Career level: E

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 commercialisation 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 and r&d it

It’s a dynamic and results-oriented environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There are countless 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, with support all the way. Diverse minds that work cross- functionally and broadly together.

In R&D IT we are focussed on supporting our highly skilled scientists in our labs who experiment and support complex drug projects and several other business stakeholders to manage Clinical trials, regulatory submissions and Patient Safety processes. The environment is driven by scientific and technical innovation with a high level of diversity in workflows, data and vendors, powered by the adoption of the BizDevOps ways of working that leverages technology and agile ways of working to delivery value, faster.

About the role

AstraZeneca are looking for a technically skilled Cloud Engineering – Lead to work as part of the R&D IT team.

You will specialize in Design and development of Cloud solutions for R&D IT supporting business and IT strategic objectives across the R&D IT portfolio of programs and products. You will ensure that cloud solutions designed are aligned with AstraZeneca architecture standards, blueprints and roadmaps. You will create and review designs and build a balance between immediate business requirements and long term strategic plans. You will also be instrumental in the interpretation of current and influence future architectures applying AstraZeneca architecture guiding principles.

The role will be accountable for driving solution evaluation, selection decisions, buy vs build decisions and proof-of-concept projects and advise on business case development.

This lead should be a highly motivated self-starter, an independent thinker who thrives on finding creative and innovative solutions.

Key responsibilities

Designs and ensures that architectures, solution blueprints for projects or solutions that address business/application/data/infrastructure requirements

Being part of an inclusive and collaborative environment.

Partner with stakeholders across Enterprise Architecture, IT Stakeholders and the Business

Works with Business Analysis and Solution Engineering functions and supports functional & technical requirements management, including driving software selection processes

Accountable for designing comprehensive solutions that meet business requirements and are aligned to AstraZeneca’s Enterprise Architecture, in support of the R&D IT portfolio of programs and products

Partner with project managers, business analysts, and solution engineers to create solutions that are aligned to AstraZeneca architecture standards and principles, leverage common and reusable solutions and services, and meet the financial targets (cost and benefits).

Responsible for designing and implementing cost optimized Infrastructure

Implement and adhere to the security standards and best practises.

Within the solution development lifecycle the role will be accountable for solution evaluation and selection, buy vs. build decisions, and early-phase project estimates which contribute to the business case.

Provides technical & IT expertise support to project teams

Ensures compliance with existing EA guidelines and standards (e.g. AZ Architecture Engagement Process (ISPMM) and EA Software Standards)

Contributes to project and service teams in the development, implementation and maintenance of standard architectural components

Works with third party suppliers as required and contributes to the creation of local or functional design documents

You should apply if you have

Experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google)

Extensive experience designing, and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment for large, regulated businesses.

Exposure and Experience in industry architectural patterns and frameworks

Ability to interpret and communicate highly technical concepts into business language

Hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS

Hands-on experience using compute, storage, database and application integration AWS services

Hands on programming skills in Python, Understanding of packaging for python

Experience in Shell Scripting, SQL

Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services

Experience with deployment methodologies and DevOps principles such as immutability

Experience in DevOps, using continuous integration and continuous development

Understanding and Experience leveraging GIT as source code control and part of a deployment pipeline

Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure. Prior success in automating a real-world production environment.

Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability

Experience with seamless/automated build pipelines used for release management across all environments.

Hands on familiarity with CloudFormation or Terraform

Ability to identify which AWS services (or equivalent with AZURE, GCP) meet a given technical requirement

Knowledge of recommended best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform

In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language, associated frameworks, idioms, and best practices

Adaptability to implement change initiatives quickly and proactively, providing guidance to others in meeting changing needs

Experience of building unit tests, integration tests, system tests and acceptance tests

Able to read and understand technical manuals, procedural documentation

Demonstrable experience in learning new business domains, processes and capabilities

Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to be able to collaborate effectively toward a common goal and deliver solution presentations to internal stakeholders

Deep problem-solving, analytical, risk management skills

Desired skills:
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.

Agile solution design and agile project delivery

Working experience of any of the workflow technology like AirFlow/Luigi/Nextflow

Understanding of web technologies (e.g. load balancers, http, ssl)

Experience in any of the Cloud Compliance tool

Experience having worked in a Matrixed organization in a Hub spoke model

Experience in Life Science domain, and exposure to validated platforms is an advantage

Education requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (Computer Science or similar engineering discipline)

Overall years of experience:
13+ years

WHY JOIN US ?

We’re a network of high-reaching self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering premier technology and data solutions.

We’re not afraid to take ownership and run with it. Empowered with unrivalled freedom. Put simply, it’s because we make a significant impact. Everything we do matters.

SO, WHAT’S NEXT?

Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.

WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE?

Our Social Media, Follow AstraZeneca on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/1603/

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.