Senior Software Engineer - Digital Lab

Do you want to use your expertise in Software Engineering to make an impact on advancing the technology in one of the world's most forward-thinking and connected BioPharmaceutical companies? Then this role might be for you!



About us

At AstraZeneca, in Early Science, we have highly skilled scientists generating ideas and performing experiments in the support of complex drug discovery projects. Our environment is driven by scientific and technical innovation with a high degree of diversity in workflows, data, vendor solutions and in-house builds. Your work will have a direct impact on the science we do, and you have an opportunity to enable our scientists to undertake science not possible today.



What you'll do

In this role you will join a globally distributed team of DevOps engineers in our Digital Lab platform. You will be responsible for designing and implementing software and data solutions to make our science easier to do, easier to learn from, and offer faster delivery and higher quality across all therapeutic areas. Design and build novel products and features to address long-standing problems in drug discovery with a focus on producing amazing user experiences that are more than the sum of their parts.

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Develop all levels of the technical stack even if you are more experienced in some layers
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Propose and implement changes to our data models, core architecture, and codebase
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Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize a vibrant software engineering culture
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Support junior software engineers through mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development

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Collaborate in the transformation of an estate of siloed systems into an ecosystem that delivers great user experiences
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Plan, implement and support core infrastructure with an overall objective to improve the scalability, reliability, performance, and availability


Essential for the role

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The role requires senior level technical skills.
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You are passionate to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn modern technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities.

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You have excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, collaborative, and cross-functional interface skills.
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We see that you are well versed in .Net technology and will take the responsibilities which include participating in the entire software development life cycle, debugging applications and configuring existing systems.
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Ultimately, you'll use your expertise in the .NET framework and .Net Core to deploy high-quality applications.


Desirable for the role

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Experience in writing code in Python

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Experience in writing code in VBA (Visual Basic for Application)
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Extensive experience in defining overall API architecture, API implementations, integration and deployment.
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Experience in backend Databases (RDBMS, NoSQL, GraphDB) and also preferably their AWS Cloud counterparts (RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB/DocumentDB, Neptune, etc…)
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Experience with DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices (Jenkins, etc.)
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Experience in Agile methodologies (Kanban and SCRUM)

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Experience working with GitHub
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Some experience in cloud services, preferably AWS
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Some experience in asynchronous messaging and microservice architecture
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Some experience in container and serverless architecture (Docker, Kubernetes etc.)



Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we're opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.



Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you.



Where can I find out more?



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