Innovation Technologist - Emerging Technologies
Location
Chennai | India
Job description
Job Title: Innovation Technologist - Emerging Technologies
Career Level - E Introduction to role: The Innovation Technologist is a key role within the Emerging Technologies Innovation Lab. You will be expected to have a broad knowledge of Technology, staying abreast of key technology trends. Subject matter experts are expected to provide globally meaningful tech leadership for AstraZeneca in a constantly evolving landscape, rapidly specializing in the latest areas of new technologies. You will showcase, deliver, and prove business value through Proof of Technology (PoT) assessments, work with business stakeholders to deliver Proof of Value (PoV) projects, and where success has been proven help scale the technology into the relevant production teams.
Responsibilities - You will proactively lead scouting initiatives across the technology landscape to identify new emerging trends, technologies, and opportunities
- Establish yourself as a subject matter expert to give a globally relevant tech leadership for AstraZeneca on evolving specialist technology areas
- Build, develop, configure, and maintain technology solutions required for evaluations or PoT's, iterating or pivoting as required
- You will provide technical leadership to support broader innovation team conversations with business
- Translate business requirements and ideas for Innovation into leads, Scouting tech, or turning PoT's, into deliverable outcomes to ensure business value realisation is achieved
- You will be responsible for delivering technology positioning documentation and white papers for new and emerging technology areas
- Ensure Innovation delivery activities are carried out in alignment with required processes and governance
- Manage and run the Tech Innovation infrastructure. This includes our cloud accounts, source control systems, license servers, etc
Skills And Competencies - Software engineering skills are essential to this role. You will need to be confident getting hands on architecting and programming PoTs. This could be using an existing tech stack already in use in the business, from scratch, or using new frameworks and libraries. You may be working by yourself, or as part of a larger team. Flexibility is essential
- Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to navigate Senior Stakeholders through uncertainty
- Able to work with external partners to influence, extract and deliver timely product innovation
- You will be proficient at producing Executive briefings, White Papers and articulating strategies
- Able to work with ambiguity and prioritise a demanding workload in an exciting and dynamic space.
- Fervent desire to keep abreast of the latest trends and developments across the innovation landscape
- You will have a passion and desire to get hands on, willingness, drive and ability to learn new skills rapidly
- Familiarity with Design Thinking, Lean principles, Agile and customer led UX
- Validated experience and track record of delivering and implementing solutions with Continuous Development lifecycles
Demonstratable Experience, - Track record of delivering innovative technology enabled business change
- Knowledge or experience of demonstrating cloud compute and services (AWS, GCP or Azure)
- Knowledge of multiple programming languages. We mostly end up working with C#, Python, and JavaScript; but experience with C++, Java, Go, Rust, etc would be advantageous.
- Experience in Databases (relational and NoSql)
- DevOps – rapid prototyping
- Working knowledge of the latest Data Science trends, strategies, and technologies. Computer Vison, object detection, text extract, synthetic data sets etc
- Exposure to, or strong knowledge of real-time 3D technologies, including AR/VR technologies. This would include asset creation, and experience creation. Unity is our engine of choice, but expose to other engines such as Unreal would also be acceptable
- Proof of solo development on projects, as well as working as part of a team. Knowledge of source control and project management methodologies.
- Knowledge of the drug discovery value chain and medicines development, as well as the restrictions this applies to technologies available for us to use
Required Qualifications - Degree in software engineering, computer science, or a suitable number of years of relevant experience
Desired Qualifications - AWS Associate or Professional (Architect, Developer) or GCP/Azure equivalent
Apply now to learn more about this exciting opportunity with a world renowned pharmaceutical brand!
AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law.
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