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. AstraZeneca is one of only a handful of pure-play biopharmaceutical companies to span the entire value chain of a medicine from discovery, early- and late-stage development to manufacturing and distribution, and the global commercialization of primary care, specialty care-led and specialty care medicines that transform lives. At AstraZeneca, we're proud to have an extraordinary workplace culture that drives innovation and teamwork. Here, we encourage our teams to express diverse perspectives - making you feel valued, energized and rewarded for your ideas and creativity.

AstraZeneca is currently looking for a Platform Engineer to join our R&D IT Solution Delivery Team to manage and maintain our Analytics & Reporting platform, that is GxP compliant, part of Clinical Development Platforms and supporting mission critical function of running clinical trials run both internally and across external partners. It is broadly classified into SAS Grid and EntimICE software suite that comprises of various technologies. You will be a part of our core platform team which is migrating towards a BizDevOps operating model therefore will be responsible to work cross functionally with other team members such as Platform Lead, Product Analyst, Release Manager, Business Analysts and key stakeholders such as BRM, Product Owners etc.

Key responsibilities:

• Participate in business requirement gathering and design activities with business & IT stakeholders as part of scrum team
• Perform delivery activities through Design/Build/Test/Deploy phases for regular releases on A&R platform
• Deploy vendor-provided patches and any version upgrades on EntimICE and SAS Grid platforms
• Responsible to maintain the configuration specification documentation both for functional and integration configuration.
• Generate and implement ideas to simplify/streamline our integration landscape in alignment with integration design and patterns.
• Serve as an SME on the A&R platform for IT and business partners across regions and business areas.
• Work with the Globalscape/Snaplogic team to edit/update/maintain integration interfaces.
• Work with software vendors on product requirements and issues related to the platform, security set-up and functional configuration.
• Responsible to solve day-to-day incidents, service requests and work towards incident-reduction and automation.

Essential:

• 5 years of relevant IT experience
• Extensive experience working with Spring Boot, Groovy Scripting and UNIX shell scripting
• Experience using development tools such as Eclipse, NetBeans and IntellijIDEA
• Knowledge of support processes like Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and experience working in support teams.
• Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, Git, automated testing tools such as JIRA (Zephyr), HP ALM, Selenium
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with people across the globe with diverse cultures and backgrounds.
• Experience of working in agile teams using methodologies such as SCRUM, Kanban and SAFe.
• Demonstrate willingness and attitude to take on different roles within Platform team as when opportunity arises

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent degree is preferred but not required.

Preferred skills:

• Understanding of SAS & EntimICE administration concepts.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and utilization of Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of MVC frameworks and message broker software (e.g. Rabbit MQ)
• Knowledge of BASE SAS, R & Python
• Knowledge of Splunk, Snaplogic & reporting with Power BI
• Familiar with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and non-SQL databases such as Mongo DB
• Passion for learning, innovating and delivering valuable software to people.

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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.