Senior Consultant-Full Stack

Job Title: Senior Consultant-Full Stack

Career Level - D3

Introduction to Role:
Are you ready to simplify and streamline scientific workflows, data, and applications? As a Senior Consultant - .Net at AstraZeneca, you will work alongside platform leads, architects, BAs, and informaticians to devise technical solutions, estimate and deliver operationally sustainable platform software. You will use your technical acumen to balance between COTS and home-grown solutions, owning their lifecycles and roadmap. This role requires coordinating activities of technical internal and contract employees across multiple locations. 

Are you an experienced software engineer looking for an exciting new challenge? Then why not join our R&D IT Solution Delivery team and play a pivotal role in modernising systems and processes enabling drug discovery in or Early Science Drug Discovery program.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a senior engineer to advance modern software development practices within our team (DevOps/CI/CD/automated testing), building a bespoke integrated software framework (on-premise/cloud/COTS) which will accelerate the ability of AZ scientists to develop new drug candidates for unmet patient needs.

To achieve this goal, we need a strong senior individual to work with teams of engineers, as well as engage and influence other global teams within Solution Delivery to ensure that our priorities are aligned with the needs of our science.  The successful candidate will be a hands-on coder, passionate about software development and also willing to coach and enable wider teams to grow and expand their software delivery capabilities and skills.

At AstraZeneca we believe in the potential of our people and you'll develop beyond what you thought possible. We make the most of your skills and passion by actively supporting you to see what you can achieve in your wider career aspirations.

What you’ll do.

The role will encompass a variety of approaches with the aim of simplifying and streamlining scientific workflows, data and applications, while advancing the use of AI and automation for use by scientists.  Working alongside platform lead, architect, BA, and informaticians you will be working to understand, devise technical solutions, estimate and deliver and run operationally sustainable platform software. You need to use your technical acumen to determine an optimal balance between COTS and home-grown solutions and own their lifecycles and roadmap.

Our delivery teams are distributed across multiple locations and as Senior Engineer you will need to coordinate activities of technical internal and contract employees. You must be capable of working with others, driving ownership of solutions, showing humility while striving to enable the development of platform technical team members in our journey. You will raise expectations within the whole team, solve complex technical problems and work alongside complementary delivery platforms while aligning solutions with scientific and data strategies and target architecture.

Skills & Capabilities

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Lead Full Stack Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in full stack development and the ability to lead and mentor a team of developers to deliver high-quality software solutions.

The role requires strong technical skills, and we consider the below essential capabilities:

• Lead and manage a team of developers, providing technical guidance and mentorship.

• Utilize 10+ years of experience as a full stack developer, employing object-oriented languages such as .Net (ASP.NET/C#.NET, .NET Core), Python, and JavaScript (Node.js/React.js).

• Experience in designing and implementing enterprise-level architecture.

• Develop and optimize complex SQL queries for efficient data retrieval and manipulation (e.g. MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle)

• Experience in Snowflake or any other Data Warehousing would be advantageous.

• Experience or knowledge in AWS / any Cloud implementation is desirable.

• Proficiency in PowerBI Desktop, Power Query, DAX, and data visualization best practices is an added advantage.

• Experiences in CI/CD pipeline implementation like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Gitlab…

• Implementing the best practices and coding standards of the project.

• Experience on SharePoint is desirable.

• Hands on experience in JIRA,Confluence.

• Possess strong analytical and debugging skills, including the ability to create, maintain, and implement test plans.

• Experience with production support and ticket management.

• Passionate about agile, lean development practices, Continuous Integration/Continuous Development, DevOps.

• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to work with others to achieve objectives

• Good team player, and the attitude to work with the highest integrity and lead the team.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Bioinformatics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Maths, Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent degree is preferred. We will consider self-taught engineers without a formal education given that you have evidence of rich history of software engineering.

Experience Requirements:

• 10+ years on software delivery projects, ideally involving teams in multiple locations

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next! Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

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 are committed to disrupting an industry and changing lives. Our work has a direct impact on patients by 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 meaningful impact? Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth.

Are you ready to innovate, disrupt an industry and change lives? Apply now!