Job Title - Lead Consultant - Data & Insights Sr.Analyst

Career Level - E

Leverage technology to impact patients and ultimately save lives

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, information technology? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the IT strategy in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation 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. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

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.

About the role

The Data and Insights Analyst will be assisting with translating the data that we derive from the Management, Monitoring, Security & ServiceNow Tools and Platforms into actionable insights. Working under guidance of more senior employees, the role holder will be involved in analysing requirements, implementing components of solutions as well as supporting solution enhancements and maintenance, which may require a close collaboration with third party suppliers. The Data & Insights Analyst will adhere to the established AstraZeneca lifecycle methodology and practices. This may include maintaining program libraries and technical documentation of individual components within solutions.

Typical Accountabilities

• Handle data effectively from different sources, and build scripts that will make the custom data platform flexible and scalable across data sets

• Make use of specialist tools and statistical methods to extract the data needed, research new ways to make use of the data, respond to data-related queries and analyse to identify trends.

• Collaborate with Senior stake holders across IT and Business to gather requirements, understand challenges, provide insights based on in-depth assessment of data from infrastructure tools and solutions, and build relationships.

• Create and maintain rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis integrating various reporting components from multiple data sources

• Align with organizational methods and develop information-model and standard documents for data sets

• Build a Proactive environment, plan and drive the journey towards being Prescriptive and Predictive.

• Self-initiated curiosity with an eye for performance, investigating and identify areas for improvement

• Gathers and collates information on existing and upcoming infrastructure solutions and services

• Develops technical expertise and shares knowledge as required with project teams working on the development, implementation, maintenance, and improvement of IT Infrastructure Operations solutions

• Proven success in a collaborative, team-oriented environment

Education, Qualifications, and Experience

Essential

• "9-12 years of IT experience but 3-5 years of relevant data and insight experience ".

• Strong experience in EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis), SQL and programming with and Python/R

• Higher education with demonstrated capability to perform in a complex IT environment

• Prior experience in an Information Services/Information Technology environment with good business acumen

• Experience of working within a quality and compliance environment and application of policies, procedures, and guidelines

• Evidence of designing, testing, and maintaining solutions

• Experience of sharing knowledge/ information and implementing any changes

• Well versed in ITIL V3.0 practices and process

• Good experience and/or awareness and/or drive in/to create actionable insights for IT Operations from IT systems that can support the operations of a world class IT function.

Desirable

Degree level education in computer science or Masters.

Skills and Capabilities

Essential

• Global engagement exposure or working in a global team.

• Good team player and stake holder engagement

• Experience of Data Analysis enabling tool kits

  • Data Handling (ETL)

  • Splunk (Search expert, data science analyst , developer role)

  • Python or R

  • Statistical Methods

  • Snowflake, DBT, collibra

  • PowerBI

  • DBT and collibra

  • Machine Learning implementation experience

• Awareness of the end-to-end processes and activities in the build and support of Data solutions

• Experience in the use of metadata cataloguing tools

Desirable

• Demonstrate initiative, strong customer orientation, and cross-cultural working

  • ServiceNow Data Insight Experience

  • AI-OPS

  • GxP, SOX compliance

• Quality and Audit exposure (D)

  • Experienced in applying a risk-based methodology to data and information management

• Lean

WHY JOIN US?

We’re a network of high-reaching self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering premier technology and data solutions.

We’re not afraid to take ownership and run with it. Empowered with unrivalled freedom. Put simply, it’s because we make a significant impact. Everything we do matters.

SO, WHAT’S NEXT?

Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.

WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE?

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We 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

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AstraZeneca 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. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.