Job Title: Associate Engineer
Location:TRIL GTC Chennai
GCL: C1

Job description:

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. The Science & Enabling Units IT is AZ’s global IT capability function supporting key business areas operating out of sites across the US, UK, Sweden, India & Mexico.

We are looking for a hardworking Data engineer who will leverage tools & technology standard methodologies to improve delivery performance & data engineering capabilities in the D&A space.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide data engineering (ETL, ODS, Marts, Reports) support to R&D IT portfolio
• Deliver cost-effective, solutions to support data engineering activities, for example data ETL workflows
• Test and quality assess new D&A solutions, to ensure they are fit for release: code assurance, Unit and System Integration Testing, Data testing, release management control and support of UAT processes
• Ensure that business data and information assets are made available as data services and artefacts for consumption by the wider AZ enterprise

Required skills:

• Experience of working with a range of data analytics architectures. These may include: traditional warehousing, distributed computing, visualization analytics
• Experience with & knowledge of Talend including:
• Use of enterprise version of Talend Software preferably in a virtualized environment like AWS
• Development of both standard ETL jobs deployed on JobServers and services (REST, SOAP) deployed on Talend ESB infrastructure
• Familiar with using version control (branching, merging etc), ideally Git
• Knowledge of working with Talend project branches, merging them and publishing and deploying code to runtime environments
• Knowledge of techniques for optimising Talend code
• Experience in Talend best practices for error handling, optimization, job layout, job design and naming conventions
• Experience and familiarity with data models and artefacts
• Any DB experience like Redshift, Netezza, Teradata, etc
• Interpret data, process data, analyze results and provide ongoing support of productionized applications
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to resolve production issues
• Understanding of business area/process in scope
• Willing to work in a cross-cultural environment. Ability to work effectively independently or as part of a team to achieve objectives
• Eager to learn and develop new tech skills as required
• Good written and verbal skills, proficient English

Desired skills:

• Domain knowledge (processes & data): Pharma R&D
• Experience of working with NoSQL, virtualization, data streaming etc
• Amazon Web Services: Connecting, loading and reading data from AWS database technologies like MySQL, Aurora, AWS Redshift, PostgresSQL
• Experience with Talend Metadata Manager and Talend Data Preparation an advantage
• MS Power BI knowledge or any other reporting tools
• Agile/Scrum process
• ITIL knowledge.

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.

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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.