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
Location: TRIL GTC
GCL :D2
Company
AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca, we're proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.
Department – Data Engineering, R&D IT
R&D IT is a global IT capability supporting Drug Research, Drug Development, Product & Portfolio Strategy, Medical Affairs, Finance, HR, Compliance, Legal and Global Business Services. We are organized around 7 key capability areas: Business Partnering, Solution Delivery, Architecture, Application Support, Data & Analytics, Change & Operations, operating out of sites across the US, UK, Sweden, India and Mexico.
The Data & Analytics team provides technical support to analytics and data insight services and solutions critical to the Data & AI/ML emerging strategy and mission of R&D IT and AZ. Data & Analytics is organized into teams specializing in Information Architecture, Data Engineering, Visual Engineering, Knowledge Management, Data Science, Data Analysis and Information Governance.
Role
The Data Catalogue engineer will be responsible for design, development, configuration and supporting the Collibra platform. He will play a key role in Setting up, configuring and managing Data Governance Center.
The Data Catalogue engineer as part of DataOps team will work in an agile way with on-shore Data Catalogue lead, Metadata lead, development teams, including the on-shore BI engineers and analysts, business sponsors and solution architects to support the platform within R&D IT.
The role will be an integral and respected part of the data engineering team, whose input and expertise will be instrumental in ensuring the success of Data Catalogue delivery.
Key Accountabilities
- Works with BAs and stakeholders to help clarify requirements and use cases to get them ready for execution.
- Helps develop AZ Collibra cookbook and best practice guidance.
- Designs, implements, deploys and configures custom and out of the box Collibra workflows to meet use cases and requirements.
- Implements custom forms associated with custom workflows
- Implements any data-driven logic associated with custom workflows, e.g. checking user access request against metadata attributes held in Collibra.
- Set up users, roles, groups in Collibra to ensure custom workflows have desired effect with users of the tool.
- Implements single sign-on for Collibra using SAML protocol.
- Implements data integrations with Collibra, using both Collibra catalogue capability and Collibra Connect to ingest data from AZ repositories, including AWS S3 and ER Studio.
- Packages Collibra releases for promotion through environments.
- Developing and maintaining procedures for system maintenance (including upgrade, backup and restore).
- Meeting SLA for incident resolution.
Highly Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- 5+ Years of Experience in Design, Deployment and Administration of Collibra implementations.
- Experience in Life cycle management activities like upgrade of server to newer versions.
- B.Tech/ M.Tech/MSc in Computer Science.
- A strong understanding of databases and source systems.
- Experience developing complex custom Collibra workflows and forms.
- Experience developing data integrations with Collibra using Mulesoft.
- Experience implementing single sign on with Collibra.
- Experience packaging Collibra releases.
Additional skills and experience sought
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
- Good written and verbal skills, fluent in English.
- Development skills: Java, web development (HTML, CSS, XML, APIs (REST), JSON)
- ETL experience: Talend
- Integration experience: Mulesoft, Java, JSON, Groovy, DB Skills, Integration experience a plus, etc. XML, SOAP, WSDL, XSD, REST.
- Test Driven Development, Cloud based application development
- Unix/Linux/Windows, Cloud/ AWS
- Full time to start (potentially moving to part time after go live)
- DataWeave, a JSON-like language to write, maintain and support complex mappings for any data type(for batch and real-time data integration)
- Experience of delivering solutions within IT projects delivered through Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Experience of working with a range of data architectures.
- Supporting a data centric application.
- Working with APIs (support or development).
- Working knowledge of the Pharma industry is a plus.
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, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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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