Clinical Data DevOps Lead
AstraZeneca2 days ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Operate, improve, and scale clinical data solutions across EDC, data review and monitoring, visualization, data transformation, and publication.
- Ensure adherence to IRT and IT standards, CDISC standards, ICH-GCP, 21 CFR Part 11, clinical trial methodology, and software development lifecycle requirements.
- Monitor and drive system change requests, lead release orchestration, and manage outage communications through resolution.
- Advise study teams, partners, vendors, and CROs on clinical data product design, system specifications, integrations, and study lifecycle support.
- Own day-to-day application operations, troubleshoot incidents, manage problems, and maintain Knowledge Base Articles for self-service resolution.
- Establish processes for secure coding, CI/CD, automated testing, cloud operations, and engineering excellence.
- Create and prioritize Epics and Stories in JIRA with product leadership.
- Design and deliver integrations between on-premises and SaaS platforms using APIs, MuleSoft, SnapLogic, and related web service and ETL technologies.
- Optimize data mapping, reporting, analytics, and visualization using SQL, R, and Python.
- Lead application enhancements, upgrades, resilience improvements, performance improvements, usability improvements, and global library maintenance.
- Build and support risk-based monitoring analytics and visualizations for data review, clean patient tracking, missing pages, third-party reconciliation, and data quality checks.
- Collaborate with internal teams and third-party suppliers to define requirements, implementation plans, and measurable delivery outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a life-science-related discipline, with 15 years of total IT, CRO, or pharmaceutical experience.
- Minimum 7–8 years of experience in clinical data management, clinical data analytics, and visualization.
- End-to-end familiarity with clinical trial development processes, clinical trial execution, drug development, and associated system landscapes.
- Strong experience implementing and maintaining EDC systems such as Rave, Inform, and Veeva, and coordinating monitoring and visualization analytics applications.
- Experience with clinical data systems, IRT, third-party data handling, clean patient tracking, missing-page review, data quality checks, third-party data reconciliation, and business intelligence tools.
- Knowledge of relational databases, medical coding, medical dictionaries, coding tools, coding governance models, and clinical data management systems.
- Strong understanding of CDASH, SDTM, SEND, ADaM, CDISC controlled terminology, clinical trial terminology, Architect Loader Specification, ICH guidelines, and 21 CFR Part 11.
- Experience with Spotfire, J-Review, Qlik or QlikView, Tableau, Cognos, Oracle BI, and Informatica.
- Expertise in SQL and R and/or Python for data analysis and visualization.
- Experience developing interfaces and integrations between on-premises and SaaS platforms using APIs, web services, MuleSoft, and SnapLogic.
- Knowledge of identity management solutions based on Azure, Okta, OAuth, Ping Federate, and Active Directory technologies.
- Experience with build tools and CI/CD tools such as Maven, Ant, Gradle, and Sonar or similar tools.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
- Experience using JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, and automated testing tools.
- Experience working in Agile teams using Scrum and SAFe methodologies.
- Experience programming in Java or other object-oriented programming languages.
- Experience with external vendors and CROs supporting standards or EDC integrations with central lab, ePRO, IRT, and data review or monitoring platforms.
- Ability to lead diverse collaborators and communicate with technical personnel and senior stakeholders during urgent or critical situations.
- Accredited SCDM or ACDM certification, vendor data management training, clinical data programming experience, EDC build and global library maintenance experience, and IT delivery framework, Scrum Master, or DevOps Lead certification are desirable.
Benefits
- Work with a global, digitally savvy team supporting life-changing clinical science and real patient outcomes.
- Collaborate across product, platform, architecture, data, study, vendor, and engineering teams with ownership over an important clinical data platform.
- AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, reasonable accommodation, and compliance with employment eligibility requirements.
- The posting is dated 10-Nov-2026 and closes 16-Nov-2026.
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
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.