Senior Data Engineer

Here, the answers aren’t always available. So, you’ll need to bring a fearless, self-starter mindset to navigate uncharted territories. You’ll harness your ceaseless energy to discover and make the necessary connections with colleagues to shape the future and achieve maximum impact., As a Senior Data Engineer on the Drug Development Data Platform (3DP), you’ll contribute to solution development and testing, offer technical guidance, and share responsibility for delivery. This is a partially business-facing role, so your communication and technical skills are equally valued - you’ll be helping to set expectations, share progress, and build relationships with stakeholders.

You’ll bring a broad range of knowledge and experience across data and analytics, working almost exclusively on our AWS data platform. You’ll join a team responsible for key systems that make clinical trial data available to stakeholders through scalable, cloud-based ETLs managed via a web application.

You’ll be part of a team of engineers who work closely with IT colleagues across Mexico, Spain, India, Poland, and the UK. You’ll serve as a technical point of reference within the team, and a collaborative delivery approach will help you thrive. We generally favour Agile, though we choose the best-fit approach for each team and set of stakeholders, so familiarity with a range of delivery methods is welcome. You’ll offer technical guidance throughout our software development lifecycle - from early concept development through to identifying opportunities to reduce operating costs in existing production services.

Key Accountabilities

• Design, build, enhance, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for efficient data ingestion and processing.

• Design, develop, and maintain REST APIs intended for system integration.

• Support stakeholders - including data, design, product, and executive teams - with technical data questions.

• Help keep the AWS base infrastructure well maintained.

• Tune SQL queries and ETL pipelines for performance.

• Identify opportunities for efficiency and automation.

• Investigate data issues, analyse end-to-end pipelines, and partner with users to resolve them.

• Stay current with developments in recent technology and industry practices.

• Maintain and refine a front-end application., Your wellbeing means a lot to us, and we’re here to support you through all of life’s ups and downs. That’s why we offer an unpaid leave policy, annual leave, reduced-hours timetables and a host of benefits, including a retirement plan, long service award, and health and travel insurance.

Ready to make an impact in your career? If you’re passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we’ll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for., Seize ownership and excel with autonomy to enjoy the constant rush of ground-breaking discovery. Your ability to anticipate sudden shifts and adapt swiftly will prove critical as you make your mark in an environment that rewards initiative and resilience., * Solid development skills, with practical knowledge of Python, source control (Git), and versioning.

• Experience with big data, ETL, and cloud tools and techniques (we currently use AWS-based Python, Terraform, Glue, S3, SQS, and ECS).

• A mindset oriented toward automated testing.

• Good hands-on experience within the AWS ecosystem.

• A DevOps-first approach, with extensive experience using GitHub / GitHub Actions (or similar tools).

• SQL experience (PostgreSQL preferred).

• Experience triaging and resolving tickets.

• Experience working within a globally distributed team.

• Ability to design and document development best practices.

• Good experience in API design (documentation, REST, etc.).

• Solid analytical and data manipulation skills.

• Experience providing technical guidance within data and analytics teams.

• Great interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach to delivery.

• Comfortable partnering with, and building trusted relationships with, business colleagues.

• Some exposure to front-end development and JavaScript/TypeScript, with a stronger focus on data and backend work.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with Agile practices, using tools such as Jira.

• Experience with visualisation technologies (we focus on Power BI).

• A good understanding of AI code-generation opportunities, capabilities, and limitations.

• Experience with Terraform (IaC).

• Experience with Iceberg, Glue, and/or Hive.

AstraZeneca Spain is a rising force in our global business. With headquarters in Madrid and our global hub in Barcelona, we’ve become an important international centre of excellence in the fight against critical disease. Boasting vibrant universities and business schools, the Barcelona ecosystem is a place where scientists can thrive. We attract a diverse workforce from across the globe, shining a beacon for innovation in a country that’s committed to clinical development.

We invite you to bring your talents to Barcelona where our respiratory medicine R&D and Global Marketing centre offers opportunities in R&D, IT, Commercial and HR. Or join us in Madrid and shape our growth in our BUs (Respiratory, Oncology & CVRM ), and a range of Corporate functions. Additionally, you can find sales roles throughout the country. Together, we’re contributing to a world-leading pipeline of therapeutics and delivering life-changing medicines to patients.

Who do we look for?

Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca Spain, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world’s most complex diseases. Alongside technical expertise, colleagues have the resilience, energy and collaborative mindset to change lanes, work with different teams and start projects from scratch.

Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Madrid or Barcelona, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that’s powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day., AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-focused biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. We’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies - we’re proud to nurture a workplace culture that encourages innovation and collaboration. Here, employees are supported to share diverse perspectives and are made to feel valued, energised, and appreciated for their ideas and creativity.

Department - Data & Analytics, R&D IT

R&D IT is a global IT capability supporting Drug Research, Drug Development, Product & Portfolio Strategy, Medical Affairs, Finance, HR, Compliance, Legal, and Global Business Services. We are organised around seven key capability areas: Business Partnering, Solution Delivery, Architecture, Application Support, Data & Analytics, and Change & Operations - with colleagues based across the US, UK, Sweden, India, and Mexico.

The Data & Analytics team provides technical support for the analytics, data, and insight services that are central to the Data and AI/ML strategy of R&D Science IT and AstraZeneca. The team is organised into groups specialising in Information Architecture, Data Engineering, Visual Engineering, Knowledge Management, Data Science, Data Analysis, and Information Governance.

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What we offer

We’re driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, inclusivity, balance and sustainability. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you., Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do, and our different views, experiences and strengths enrich our culture. There’s no salary gap at AstraZeneca, and the number of female employees has increased by four per cent over the last three years. We’ve also made all positions fully accessible., We’re committed to harnessing the power of science to become a more sustainable business. We’ve reduced our carbon footprint by over 9,000 kg of CO2 over the last two years, and we lead the European GoGreen Project, which aims to introduce environmentally friendly options in our fleet of corporate vehicles.