Job Title:   Senior Consultant
Location: TRIL GTC 
GCL : D2

Job Summary

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business with a primary focus on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines. Our purpose as a company is to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines and greater efficiency & innovation in healthcare.

As science moves forward, technology has to keep pace. AstraZeneca IT started a major global transformation program to create a world class IT organization, including radically reinventing the current IT operating model and organization design; supplier ecosystem optimization and insourcing; establishment of a network of global Technology Centers; significant Infrastructure and Technology transformation; cultural change and risk management.

A key part of this transformation program has been recently achieving the industry’s fastest deployment of Veeva’s mobile customer relationship management platform to 30,000+ users in 80+ countries to improve salesforce productivity and effectiveness.

We are now looking for a Veeva COE Integration Team Lead to further exploit Veeva / Salesforce Integrations platforms on related to RAC and Veeva CRM Integrations on specific to US.

The Veeva COE Team Lead will be part of AstraZeneca’s Solution Delivery Center Application Engineering team, based out of our state-of-the-art IT facility in Chennai.

This leader will be accountable for the design and delivery of Veeva CRM and projects in support of Platform Architects as well as other platforms required for the delivery of applicable services.

This leader will regularly communicate with and influence leaders and peers across the AZ IT organization and will represent the Veeva COE Team’s delivery to business and IT stakeholders in all stages of project lifecycle, including requirement gathering, design workshops, PI planning and build.

Job Description

Role and Responsibilities

The Veeva COE Technical Lead will have the following primary responsibilities:

• Provide Functional and Technical Leadership to Veeva COE Application Engineering team in support of AstraZeneca’s IT insourcing strategy
• Serve as an internal consultant and SFDC/Veeva Integration expert for IT and business partners across all business areas (Commercial, Medical, R&D)
• Lead build, test, and deploy activities of key Veeva platform initiatives
• Perform analysis for proposing solution/technical design for various market requirements
• Help refine business requirements, set priorities, manage expectations, resolve issues, and work with the other members of the technical team to deliver innovative solutions.
• Create project deliverables and standards (e.g., including process standards)
• Manage release work plans and delivery timelines
• Lead process improvement initiatives with a view to increase release throughput and quality

Essential Skills and experience

• Minimum 8 – 10 years with people management skills and direct hands-on experience on Integration tools like Mule and .Net
• Good functional understanding of CRM capabilities , RAC  , SOA webservices
• Good technical understanding of Veeva CRM and Veeva proiduct capabilities
• In-depth knowledge of RAC system and its associated technologies (Postgres, Oracle PLSQL )
• A broad understanding of the CRM business knowledge and technical architectures in both OBU and BBU
• Exposure to Web Services/ETL Integration products (Mule and Snaplogic)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Veeva and Salesforce.com Admin Certification
• Ability to work within both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Advanced level of proficiency in planning, change management and problem solving and able to resolve issues of a highly complex and strategic nature
• Experience of driving and leading innovative solutions
• Experience of leading development teams with a demonstrable track record of motivational and achievement-oriented leadership
• Experience as a direct line manager with responsibility for performance management and development plans.

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.