Senior Consultant - Snowflake Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Location Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Job ID R-230528

Date posted 01/07/2025

Job Title: Senior Consultant – Snowflake

Career Level: D1

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to drive innovation and optimize services in the realm of Enterprise Data Management? At AstraZeneca, we are on a mission to pioneer scientific breakthroughs and transform patient outcomes. As a Senior Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our Enterprise Data Platform and engineering Enterprise Data Assets & Products. Join us in our journey to leverage cutting-edge technologies, scale AI solutions, and unlock the true potential of data.

Accountabilities

• Ensure the service is in ‘Always ON’ mode and maintain at least 99% service availability for users.
• Optimize the service for improved pipeline performance and cost efficiencies.
• Address feature/connector usage, design, and implementation queries from the data engineering community.
• Contribute to service response and resolution times compliance.
• Manage and resolve incidents and service requests from data engineers.
• Implement change requests for platform and new data asset & product pipelines.
• Design, build, test, and deploy data ingestion and consumption pipelines.
• Enhance and maintain CI/CD and test automation solutions.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation, create ‘Knowledge Base’ and ‘How-To Do’ articles.
• On-board new data assets, products, and applications to the Snowflake data platform.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Have very good knowledge, skill & experience with Snowflake as a technology and its features & capabilities.
• Have acquired certifications in Snowflake as a technology.
• Have played the role of a Snowflake data platform admin and a data engineer on Snowflake platform.
• Have very good knowledge, skill and experience on Infrastructure management, SaaS, Cloud, AWS, Networking, Privatelink.
• Have very good knowledge, skill & experience with managing access controls, policies, data privacy & governance.
• Have very good knowledge, skill & experience on data extract, load, transformation & visualization.
• Have very good knowledge, skill & experience working with databases, SQL, python.
• Have very good knowledge, skill & experience working with Snowflake metadata and generating costs governance and operational reports.
• Have very good knowledge, skill and experience with CI / CD.
• Have good knowledge on Snowflake’s Cortex AI features and capabilities.
• Have worked with data & analytics platforms eco-system such as Fivetran, DBT Cloud, MWAA, PowerBI.
• Have the ability to learn new capabilities and someone who embraces life-long learning.
• Have worked with ServiceNow and JIRA.
• Have very good verbal & written communication skills.
• Have very good planning and presentation skills.

Desirable Skills/Experience

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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, your work directly impacts patients by empowering our business to perform at its peak. We combine cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms to drive exponential growth. Here, you can innovate freely, explore new solutions, and tackle challenges that have never been addressed before. With countless opportunities to learn and grow, you'll be part of a diverse team that values collaboration and inclusivity. Our commitment to ethical standards ensures that everything we do positively impacts lives across the globe.

Ready to make a difference? Apply now to join us in shaping the future of healthcare through data-driven innovation!

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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.