Application Engineer for Quality Control Systems – Reports to QC Service Lead (Operations)

Working under guidance of more senior Application Engineers, the role will be involved in analyzing requirements, implementing or testing components, as well as supporting IT applications enhancements, release and maintenance, which may require a close collaboration with third party suppliers.

The main responsibilities of the role are to:

• Ensure optimum performance and stability for multiple systems for the Laboratory and Manufacturing Quality Systems (LIMS, EMPOWER, SMARTLAB, ELN, etc.) for AstraZeneca Operations, including providing workarounds and identifying areas for improvement or solutions to permanently address the issue.
• Provide 2nd/ 3rd line support (technical queries, bug fixes and small enhancements relating to application and platform), complying with Astra Zeneca standards, change control procedures.
• Take ownership of issues through from delivery or issue resolution or escalation, as appropriate.
• Support development activities by helping in code build and deployment, tool configuration management and administration, application environment set up, change and release management.
• Demonstrated ability to apply technical knowledge to multiple systems and support multiple business groups.
• Develop specialist knowledge in relevant systems, documenting and sharing that knowledge, as required, with global teams.
• Liaise with multiple stake holders including users, infrastructure/middleware teams, 3rd party software vendors for resolving issues and potential process improvements.

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