Job Title: Lead Consultant (SW Engineering)

Career Level - E

Introduction to Role:
Are you ready to lead a team of highly skilled individuals in the product engineering roles? We are seeking an experienced professional with a blend of Life Sciences domain and technology skills to join our team as a Software Engineering Manager. This role offers the opportunity to work inclusively in a diverse team to drive change and make a real difference!

Accountabilities:
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will work closely with stakeholders to define or validate product requirements, prioritize features, and establish timelines and milestones for successful delivery. You will manage the product development lifecycle, including planning, design, development, testing, and launch. Your role will also involve contributing to code reviews and design/implementation of complex modules. You will monitor product performance, analyze metrics, and provide recommendations for optimization and enhancement.

Essential Skills/Experience:
• Overall 15+ years of experience
• Experience in Cloud Application Architecture, architectural standards and best practices
• Good written, verbal communication, and presentation skills
• Experience in various Design Patterns
• Experience in developing scalable and highly available application solution leveraging techniques like dynamic scaling, CloudFront and caching technologies
• Having 5+ years of experience with Front-end Web development, preferably Angular JS, React JS, NPM, NodeJS, YARN and build responsive front-end development with modern UI/UX
• Hands on experience with 10+ years of experience in programming languages and backend frameworks like Java (>= Java 8), kotlin, Spring Framework, Spring boot, Micronaut, Python, Typescript, nest.js, GraphQL
• Having good knowledge in unit testing frontend and backend frameworks like Junit 5, Apollo, Jasmine, Mocha, Protractor
• Regulatory knowledge, i.e GxP and SaMD is a merit
• Work experience in running SaaS applications in production. Having strong knowledge in IaC code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Ansible), Helm.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, EKS etc
• Experience in RDBMS & NoSQL Databases like MySQL. PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• ORM – JDBC/Hibernate/JPA and SQL queries with MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Security Setup for Web Services – OAUTH , Basic Auth etc.
• Design, Development and troubleshooting RESTful

Desirable Skills/Experience:
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When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives 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 unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca, our work has a direct impact on patients. We're transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines by combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. We're part of a global company that's investing in a bold digital strategy; to become a truly data-led enterprise that disrupts the entire industry. We dare to lead, applying our problem-solving mindset to identify and tackle opportunities across the whole enterprise. Our spirit of experimentation is lived every day through our events like hackathons. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering world-class technology and data solutions. Our work unlocks the potential of science. We optimise and revolutionise AstraZeneca by maximising efficiencies and finding new ways to drive productivity. From automation to data simplification.

Are you ready to disrupt an industry and change lives? Apply now and join us in our journey to becoming a digital and data-led enterprise!

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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.