AstraZeneca is looking for a technical data engineer to manage our Snowflake Enterprise Data Management Platform Service AstraZeneca is looking for a technical data engineer to manage our Snowflake Enterprise Data Management Platform Service. Our data platforms are fundamental to enable AstraZeneca’s bold ambition to be the pioneers in science, leaders in our disease areas - transforming patient outcomes. We are looking for a strong technical data engineer to join the team and help to manage our emerging Snowflake service.

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.

HIGHLIGHT THE SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES NEEDED

As a platform engineer you must have deep 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 and have a good understanding of Cloud services and SaaS and used good governance practices, standards and industry best practices with an enterprise mindset.

· You have administered enterprise platform services focussed on Role / Policy / Tag based Access provisioning & control, environments & configuration management, SSO – Single Sign-On, Authentication & Authorization, Platforms connectivity, CI / CD – Continuous Integration & Deployment – For ex., Jenkins, Source code management – For ex., GIT / Bitbucket, service request automation, proactive service monitoring & alerting, data lifecycle management.

· You have good exposure to RDBMS concepts and experience working with SQL programming to querySnowflake 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 importance of data security & protection, masking, anonymization, logging & auditing, row & column level access controls; Backup & Disaster recovery.

· You have good experience and exposure to ITIL service management Concepts [Configuration, Knowledge, Service Catalog, Service Levels, Incident, Problem, Request, Release, Change] and have examples of where you have been able to embed best practices in this area through appropriate day to day operational ways of working.

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

recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation 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.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite ambitious 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 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 outstanding and bold world.

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.