Engineer Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Location Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Job ID R-230693

Date posted 08/07/2025

Job Title: Engineer

Introduction to role:-

Are you ready to make a significant impact in the world of biopharmaceuticals? AstraZeneca, a global leader in innovation-driven prescription medicines, is seeking a dedicated Data Engineer to join our Commercial IT Data Analytics & AI (DAAI) team. With operations in over 100 countries and headquarters in the United Kingdom, AstraZeneca offers a unique workplace culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. As a Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in supporting and enhancing our data platforms built on AWS services. Your expertise in ETL, Data Warehousing, Databricks, and AWS applications will be vital in ensuring business continuity and driving efficiency. Are you up for the challenge?

Accountabilities

• Monitor and maintain the health and performance of production systems and applications.
• Provide timely incident response, solve, and resolution for technical issues raised by users or monitoring tools.
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring issues and implement preventive measures.
• Investigate data anomalies, solve failures, and coordinate with relevant teams for resolution.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to support deployments and configuration changes.
• Maintain and update technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and knowledge bases.
• Ensure alignment to service-level agreements (SLAs) and minimize downtime or service disruptions.
• Manage user access, permissions, and security-related requests as per organizational policies.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide after-hours support as needed.
• Communicate effectively with collaborators, providing status updates and post-incident reports.
• Proactively find opportunities for automation and process improvement in support activities.
• Support data migration, upgrades, and transitions as required.
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery exercises as required..

Essential Skills/Experience

• Education Background: B.E/B.Tech/MCA/MSc/BSc
• Overall Years of Experience: 3 to 5 years of experience
• Solid experience with SQL, data warehousing, and building ETL pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, including EMR, EC2, S3, Athena, RDS, Databricks, and Redshift.
• Skilled in working with columnar databases such as Redshift, Cassandra or BigQuery.
• Good understanding of ETL processes and data warehousing concepts.
• Familiarity with scheduling tools (especially Airflow is a plus).
• Able to write complex SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, and reporting.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work well with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in complex data environments

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience with Databricks or Snowflake
• Proficient in scripting and programming languages such as Shell Scripting and Python
• Familiar with CI/CD using Bamboo
• Proficient in version control systems, including Bitbucket and GitHub
• Preferably experienced with release management processes
• Significant prior experience in an IT environment within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry

At AstraZeneca, we are committed to driving exciting transformation on our journey to becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Our work connects across the entire business to power each function, influencing patient outcomes and improving lives. By unleashing the power of our latest innovations in data, machine learning, and technology, we turn complex information into life-changing insights. Join us to work alongside leading experts in our specialist communities, where your contributions are recognized from the top.

Ready to take the next step? Apply now to become part of our dynamic team!

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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.