Lead Consultant -I&O Edge , Database & Middleware

Job Title: Lead Consultant - I&O Edge, Database & Middleware

Career Level - E

Introduction to Role:
Join us at AstraZeneca as a Lead Consultant in our IT department, where you'll be driving innovation in the realm of Enterprise Edge & Hybrid Cloud technologies. This role is pivotal in ensuring that AZ technical solutions are delivered to AZ defined reference architecture and technology standards. You'll be working on strategic planning over a 1-5 year horizon, developing architecture standards, roadmaps, and blueprints across a broad range of Edge, Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and Technical Domains. 

Accountabilities:
As a Lead Consultant, you'll be responsible for providing enterprise thinking and solution design support in the Enterprise Edge – RDBMS capability. You'll also provide support/consultancy in other domains. You'll take ownership for and lead the development and implementation of technology roadmaps and strategies. You'll work with Operations, Business Analysis, and Solution Engineering functions and support functional & technical requirements management. You'll also ensure that solution architectures and designs are highly resilient and address business, application, information, and infrastructure architectural requirements.

Essential Skills/Experience:
- Strong networking skills with good internal/external links and Open Source/Community awareness.
- Well developed communication and facilitation skills.
- Ability to interpret and communicate technical information into business language.
- Awareness of developments in the Enterprise edge, and understanding of its potential impact to AZ IS.
- Core skills (or equivalence) to include a majority of the following Scripting, programming, Jira, Linux, Windows, Storage & Backup, Configuration Knowledge in Ansible, Chef Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), VMWare, Logging (EFK, Splunk), Monitoring (Prometheus), Database – Oracle/MS SQL /MySQL /MongoDB/ Postgress/(Open Source), AI & ML techniques.

- Demonstrates initiative, strong customer orientation, and cross-cultural working.
- Experience in developing/maturing an architectural practice.
- Development knowledge and experience of scripting or programming languages.
- Proven business acumen.
- Understanding of the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry and of competitor activity.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca, we're not just about creating life-changing medicines; we're about disrupting an industry and changing lives. Our work has a direct impact on patients, transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. We dare to lead, applying our problem-solving mindset to identify and tackle opportunities across the whole enterprise. Our spirit of experimentation is lived every day through our events like hackathons. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering world-class technology and data solutions. 

Ready to make a difference?

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