JOB TITLE: INFORMATION ENGINEER

CAREER LEVEL: D2

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

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Develop applications and workflows to enable semantic enrichment
• Develop vocabularies, ontologies and knowledge graphs to help model and integrate structured and unstructured data from across our external and internal data sources
• Work closely with engineering and platform teams to deliver a robust data layer to support applications. Including consistency checking, maintenance analysis and debugging.
• Work closely with data scientists, machine learning, engineering and platform teams to derive key insights from the data sources
• Help develop NLP and data processing workflows to extract key information from unstructured and semi structured sources

ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIRED

• Developing REST based endpoints for micro services or serverless architecture
• Three years of experience developing REST based services in Java/Nodejs/Python
• Developed applications using Spring boot
• Experience in designing data model and queries using NO SQL databases like MONGODB, Dynamo DB
• Experience developing application using serverless framework, AWS API Gateway, AWS lambda, Redis cache
• Experience in complete application development lifecycle from design, development, deployment and production troubleshooting
• Experience in OAUTH, JWT and other security implementations.
• Experience in dev op tools like Bamboo Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git and Bitbucket

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?

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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.

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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.