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Here, employees are supported to share diverse perspectives and are made to feel valued, energised, and appreciated for their ideas and creativity.\nDepartment - Data & Analytics, R&D IT\nR&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.\nThe 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.\nWe have taken on a meaningful goal: helping to transform antibody discovery at AstraZeneca by significantly shortening the time it takes toidentifya clinical candidate, supported by world-class technology and advanced data and AI capabilities.\nRole\nAs a Senior Data Engineer on the Drug Development Data Platform (3DP),you'llcontribute to solution development and testing, offer technical guidance, and share responsibility for delivery. 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Wegenerally favourAgile, 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'lloffer technical guidance throughout our software development lifecycle - from early concept development through toidentifyingopportunities to reduce operating costs in existing production services.\nKey Accountabilities\nDesign, build, enhance, andmaintainscalable ETL/ELT pipelines for efficient data ingestion and processing.\nDesign, develop, andmaintainREST APIs intended for system integration.\nSupport stakeholders - including data, design, product, and executive teams - with technical data questions.\nHelp keep the AWS base infrastructure wellmaintained.\nTune SQL queries and ETL pipelines for performance.\nIdentifyopportunities for efficiency and automation.\nInvestigate data issues, analyse end-to-end pipelines, and partner with users to resolve them.\nStay current with developments in recent technology and industry practices.\nMaintain and refine a front-end application.\nEssential Skills and Experience\nSolid development skills, with practical knowledge of Python, source control (Git), and versioning.\n\nExperience with big data, ETL, and cloud tools and techniques (we currently use AWS-based Python, Terraform, Glue, S3, SQS, and ECS).\n\nA mindset oriented toward automated testing.\n\nGood hands-on experience within the AWS ecosystem.\n\nA DevOps-first approach, with extensive experience using GitHub / GitHub Actions (or similar tools).\n\nSQL experience (PostgreSQL preferred).\n\nExperience triaging and resolving tickets.\n\nExperience working within a globally distributed team.\n\nAbility to design and document development best practices.\n\nGood experiencein API design (documentation, REST, etc.).\n\nSolid analytical and data manipulation skills.\n\nExperienceprovidingtechnical guidance within data and analytics teams.\n\nGreat interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach to delivery.\n\nComfortable partnering with, and building trusted relationships with, business colleagues.\n\nSome exposure to front-end development and JavaScript/TypeScript, with a stronger focus on data and backend work.\n\nDesirable Skills and Experience\nFamiliarity with Agile practices, using tools such as Jira.\n\nExperience with visualisation technologies (we focus on Power BI).\n\nA good understanding of AI code-generation opportunities, capabilities, and limitations.\n\nExperience with Terraform (IaC).\n\nExperience with Iceberg, Glue, and/or Hive.\n\nDate Posted\n19-oct-2026Closing Date\n30-oct-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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