Job Title: Senior Consultant - AWS Cloud

Career Level - D2

Introduction to Role:
Are you ready to take on more ownership and be empowered to lead? As a Senior Consultant - AWS Engineer, you'll be part of our IT team, working in a truly Agile and DevOps environment. You'll be a self-starter who is comfortable stepping up and taking ownership, willing to constantly explore and challenge the status quo.

Accountabilities:
Your role will involve interacting with business users, understanding their requirements and converting them into technical design. You'll design and implement technology standard methodologies, guidelines and reusable processes. You'll also test and quality assess new D&A solutions, ensuring they are fit for release. Your work will make business data and information assets available as data services and artefacts for consumption by the wider AZ enterprise.

Essential Skills/Experience:
- Experience in AWS Services (like EMR, EC2, S3, Athena, Lambda, Redshift) and Pyspark
- Experience working in a fully CI/CD managed environment. Tools such as git, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Code Commit, Bamboo or similar
- Excellent SQL coding skills
- Excellent Data Modelling skills (RDBMS concepts, Normalization, dimensional modelling, star/snowflake schema etc.)
- Experience in scripting using Python, Unix etc.
- Hands on experience with an orchestration capability is critical. Airflow is the preferred tool, but similar will be considered
- Experience of working with a range of BI & analytics architectures. These may include traditional data warehousing, visualization, analytics
- Experience and familiarity with data modelling (entity relationship diagrams, conceptual models, logical models, star schemas, third normal form).
- Experience of delivering data & analytics solutions using different delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall)
- Familiar with one or more data visualization tools (Microstrategy and/or Power BI)
- Complex problem-solving capability and ever improvement approach.
- Must be analytic, creative and self-motivated.
- Willing to work in a cross-cultural environment
- Ability to work effectively independently or as part of a team to achieve objectives.
- Excellent communication & documentation skills
- Eager to learn and develop new tech skills as required.

Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Domain knowledge (processes & data): Pharma Compliance, Regulatory Reporting etc.
- Working knowledge of Snaplogic, Databricks and Snowflake
- Stakeholders Engagement
- Good Story telling capability
- People/Process Management skills
- Proficient in communicating with the business stakeholders
- ITSM knowledge preferred

Educational background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT or equivalent.

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?
Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth. Focused and committed, and backed with the investment to succeed, we're driving cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry. 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!

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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.