【Alexion Japan】Snowflake Data Platform
AstraZeneca7 days ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the APJ Snowflake data platform target architecture and technical standards.
- Design scalable architecture patterns for enterprise data ingestion, transformation, storage, consumption, analytics, and AI workloads.
- Establish enterprise data architecture, data-layer, data-modeling, data-product, and integration patterns across APJ markets.
- Define Snowflake security, role-based access-control, separation-of-responsibilities, and sensitive-data handling architecture.
- Set standards for Fivetran-based ingestion, dbt transformation, ELT/ETL architecture, reusable models, and source-to-Snowflake integration.
- Serve as technical design authority by leading architecture reviews, challenging proposals, approving critical decisions, and identifying risks, dependencies, and technical debt.
- Define platform resilience, data protection, recoverability, business continuity, and disaster recovery architecture.
- Develop AI-ready data architecture and support governed enterprise-data consumption by AI and Generative AI applications.
- Guide Data Engineers and partner with BI, Analytics, Data Science, AI, Security, Identity, business, and global technology teams.
- Conduct architecture discussions with Japanese stakeholders and bridge global architecture standards with APJ and Japan requirements.
- Remain hands-on in reviewing designs, troubleshooting complex Snowflake issues, and guiding practical implementation.
Requirements
- Mandatory deep hands-on Snowflake experience covering enterprise architecture, solution design, data warehousing, security and access architecture, advanced SQL, data modeling, performance, scalability, production troubleshooting, and data integration architecture.
- Strong practical experience with dbt, Fivetran, enterprise data warehousing, data modeling, data integration, data quality, data governance, Git-based development, CI/CD concepts, and cloud data architecture.
- Ability to challenge and guide Principal and Senior Data Engineers rather than operating only as a high-level solution architect.
- Business-level Japanese proficiency for independent architecture discussions, requirements translation, and communication with Japanese stakeholders.
- Business-level English proficiency for collaboration with APJ and global technology, architecture, security, and data teams.
- Preferred pharmaceutical or life sciences industry experience.
- Preferred experience architecting large-scale enterprise Snowflake platforms and working with pharmaceutical commercial and customer data.
- Preferred experience with Master Data Management, data governance and data quality frameworks, Power BI-supported platforms, AI/ML or Generative AI solutions, and multiple APJ markets.
- Preferred experience establishing architecture standards and conducting technical design reviews.
About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes prescription medicines for patients and healthcare systems. Its portfolio spans oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolism, respiratory and immunology, and rare diseases (expanded by the 2021 acquisition of Alexion). Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, it is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, generating revenue primarily from drug sales and partnerships.