Senior Data Engineer (DevOps/DataOps)

As a Senior Data Engineer(DevOps/DataOps) in the Drug Development Data Platform (3DP), you will support solution development, testing, provide technical leadership, and take responsibility for delivery. This is a business facing role and your communication and technical skills are equally important; you will be setting expectations, reportingprogress and managing relationships with senior stakeholders.

You will have a broad range of knowledge and experience across data & analytics. You will work almost exclusively on our AWS data platform. You will join a team that has delivered cloud solutions, such as the development of auto-scaling containerised ETL. Similarly, we have built an automated ETL test harness which integrates with our evolving CI/CD processes.

You'll be part of a team of engineers who work closely with IT colleagues across the world in Mexico, Spain, India, and the UK. You would be a technical point of reference in the team and need a collaborative delivery approach to be successful. We prefer to use Agile but choose the appropriate approach for the team and stakeholders. So, experience of a variety of delivery management approaches will come in useful. You will provide technical support throughout our software development lifecycle, from the initial development of a technical design based on a blueprint, right through to hypercare.

Essential skills and experience

• Good experience of big data, ETL & cloud techniques, and tools (we currently use AWS-based Python, Terraform, Glue,S3, SQS)

• Experience of triaging and addressing tickets via ticketing solutions

• Experience working in the DevOps/DataOps lifecycle

• You must have experience working in a global team

• You are able toliaise with, and build strong relationships with business colleagues

• You will be able to design and document development best practices

• You must have strong analytical and data manipulation ability

• You must have experience of technical leadership in data and analytics

• You will need great interpersonal skills & a collaborative approach to delivery
  

Desirable skills and experience

• You are very likely to have experience of Agile practicesusing tools such as Jira

• Experience of Angular JS, Java, Oracle, and PostgreSQL

• Experience of Snowflake, DBT, Redshift (inc. Spectrum) and Aurora

• Experience of visualisation technologies (we are focused on Power BI)
  

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law.