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In this role, you will lead the DevOps backbone for our clinical data products, ensuring data is assembled, transformed, and published to rigorous CDISC standards and used to power risk-based study monitoring. Your work will directly accelerate decision-making across our trials and, ultimately, benefit patients who rely on our medicines.\nYou will join a high-performing, agile team partnering closely with Product and Platform leadership, Release Management, and Solution/Integration Architects. Together, you will set and embed guidelines in software engineering, solution design, enterprise integration, and project delivery. Do you thrive at the intersection of engineering rigor, clinical data standards, and real-world impact?\nAccountabilities:\nPlatform DevOps Ownership: Operate, improve, and scale data solutions for clinical trials across EDC, data review/monitoring, and visualization to deliver reliable data capture, transformation, and publication aligned to CDISC and risk-based monitoring strategies.\nStandards and Compliance Leadership: Ensure adherence to IRT and IT standards; apply ICH-GCP and 21 CFR Part 11; review study team cases and provide final go/no-go decisions for custom functionality.\nChange and Release Orchestration: Monitor and drive system change requests end-to-end; ensure changes follow lifecycle and risk guidelines; lead outage calls and communications through to resolution.\nTechnical SME for Studies: Advise study teams, partners, and vendors on clinical data product design and support throughout the study lifecycle; guide preparation of system specifications and documentation.\nIncident and Problem Management: Own day-to-day application operations; identify and troubleshoot issues; create and maintain Knowledge Base Articles to speed incident resolution and enable self-service.\nEngineering Excellence: Establish standard processes for secure coding, CI/CD, test automation, and cloud operations; create and refine Epics/Stories in JIRA; prioritize with product leadership for maximum value.\nIntegration and Data Engineering: Design and deliver integrations between on-prem and SaaS platforms using APIs, MuleSoft, and SnapLogic; optimize data mapping, reporting, and analytics using SQL and R/Python.\nCollaborator and Vendor Partnership: Collaborate with internal teams and third-party suppliers to define requirements and implementation plans; ensure delivery meets expectations and drives measurable outcomes.\nContinuous Improvement and Upgrades: Lead application enhancements and upgrades; improve platform resilience, performance, and usability; support global library maintenance where applicable.\nRisk-Based Monitoring Enablement: Build and support analytics and visualizations (Spotfire, Qlik, Tableau, J-Review, Cognos) that power proactive data review, clean patient tracking, missing pages, third-party reconciliation, and data quality checks.\nEssential Skills/Experience:\nClinical Data Technology Domain:\nBachelor or master’s degree in computer science or life science related rigor with IT/CRO/Pharma experience with total of 15 years of experience\nMinimum 7-8 years working experience in clinical data management, clinical data analytics and visualization. Experience in programming related to clinical data is a plus.\nAccredited Certifications from SCDM/ACDM or any vendor offered data management trainings.\nEnd to end familiarity with clinical trial development processes and its associated system landscape.\nStrong experience in implementation and maintenance of EDC (such as RAVE, Inform, Veeva) and coordination of Monitoring and Visualization Analytics Applications.\nKnowledge of the drug development process and clinical trial execution as they relate to data collection, management, analytics, and reporting.\nAnalytical and technical skills and experience with analytic software applications (i.e., Spotfire, J-Review, Qlik, Tableau).\nExperience working with EDC, IRT, third party data handling and another clinical systems implementation.\nExperience in Clean patient tracker, data review, missing pages, data quality checks, 3rd party data reconciliation and business intelligence tools like Cognos, Oracle, BI, Tableau, Spotfire, QlikView, Informatica.\nExcellent understanding of common industry standard business practices as related to clinical trials (study set up, clinical operations, data management and reporting).\nEDC build (Rave)/Inform and global library maintenance support experience a plus.\nKnowledge of relational databases and experience using multiple clinical data management systems.\nKnowledge of general medical coding in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry including knowledge of medical dictionaries, coding tools, and coding governance models.\nSolid understanding of CDASH, SDTM, SEND or ADaM, and CDISC controlled Terminology in context of clinical data.\nSolid understanding of clinical trial terminology and Architect Loader Specification.\nStrong knowledge of ICH/G guidelines, 21 CFR Part 11, clinical trial methodology and software development lifecycle activities.\nExpertise and/or experience in specialized analysis and reporting standards development skills (e.g., clinical coding, clinical dictionaries, and data analysis & reporting capabilities.\nExperience with external vendors and CROs to support Standards or EDC integrations with third party platform (Central Lab, ePRO, IRT, Data Review/Monitoring, etc.)\nIT Engineering:\nExpertise and engineering attitude to help design and implement a Clinical Data Solutions adhering to Products on Platform Strategy.\nConfirmed ability to handle diverse collaborators and ensure delivery to a high degree of satisfaction.\nShown ability to work independently in a dynamic, fast paced environment.\nConfidently communicate and social skills to lead customers, from technical personnel to senior stakeholders, in urgent or critical situations.\nKnowledge of Identity management solution based on AZURE, OKTA, Oauth, Ping Federate/AD technologies.\nUnderstanding database concepts and ability to use data to optimize reporting, data mapping and programming.\nExpertise in SQL, and R and/or Python for data analysis and visualization.\nExperience in development of Interfaces/Integration between on-premises and SaaS Platform enabled Products using API’s, Web Services (MuleSoft) and ETL (SnapLogic) tech enablers.\nSome Knowledge of using/creating build tools and CI/CD (maven, ant, gradle, Sonar or similar tools).\nExperience with Cloud Platforms such as AWS, AZURE.\nProven background in using JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Automated Testing tools.\nExperience of working in agile teams using methodologies such as SCRUM and SAFe.\nExperience programming in Java or other object-oriented programming languages.\nExperience delivering or developing workshop material, training, gap analyses, or requirements gathering sessions with business and system collaborators.\nCertification in IT delivery framework, Scrum Master, DevOps Lead role.\nDesirable Skills/Experience:\nClinical data programming experience.\nEDC build (Rave)/Inform and global library maintenance support experience.\nWhy AstraZeneca:\nJoin a global, digitally savvy team that powers the enterprise behind life-changing science. Here, engineering excellence meets real patient impact: you will work across boundaries with product leaders, architects, and data guides, using modern cloud and integration technologies to simplify how clinical data flows and decisions are made. We move with pace and purpose, bringing unexpected teams into the same room to unleash bold thinking, then giving you the ownership to turn ideas into reality. We balance ambition with support, valuing patience alongside high performance, and we keep ethics, compliance, and clarity at the center of everything we do.\nCall to Action:\nSeize this opportunity to lead an important clinical data platform and transform complex trial data into decisive action-take the next step and make your impact felt today!\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.\nDate Posted\n10-Nov-2026Closing Date\n16-Nov-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. 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