AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused pharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

As a high-performing team, we are united and motivated by our shared purpose – to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We come to work each day to make a difference – to patients, society, and our company.

Here you will experience a fast paced and agile environment as we continue to support the business on a journey of evolution and growth, driven by new, exciting technology and digital innovations. It’s challenging and sometimes demanding, and that’s why we love it.

About our IT team

It’s a dynamic and results-oriented environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There are countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that’s exploring new technologies in hackathons, or redefining the roles and work of colleagues, forever. Shape your own path, with support all the way. Diverse minds that work cross- functionally and broadly together.

What you’ll do

You will be one of the senior technical engineers in the Snowflake team – needing to understand the what our data engineers are trying to achieve and developing the enterprise service to help make it happen. This might involve integrating a new ETL tool with Snowflake, working with CI/CD pipelines to enable teams to achieve transformation, metadata management and serving of data, along with useful guides to onboard users and teach standard patter.

As a platform engineer you must have technical skills, along with the ability and willingness to learn new skills and technologies in a fast-paced environment We are looking for someone who gets excited at the thought of solving tough challenges.

You should apply if

• You have previously played a role as a Platform service engineer for one or more of Data engineering platforms & services, especially Snowflake

• You have administered enterprise platform services and are familiar with the configuration work an d practices to make it work seamless (e.g. Role / Policy / Tag based Access provisioning, connectivity, CI / CD – Continuous Integration & Deployment, service request automation, proactive service monitoring & alerting, data lifecycle management)

• You have experience working with SQL programming to query Snowflake metadata to gather insights and visualize on Platform usage, adoption, service operational status & alerts, governance & observability; Metadata management & reporting; Business application & Data products jobs cost and performance optimization, management & tuning guidelines

• You have awareness of GxP and SOX compliant platforms and services, and understand the importrance of data security & protection, masking, anonymization, logging & auditing, row & column level access controls; Backup & Disaster recovery.

Expectation   of   working in the   of fice 3 days a week statement: When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working give 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   of fice. But that doesn’t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation   of   being in the   of fice while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique   and   ambitious world.