Senior Software Engineer (Imaging)

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, Software Engineering? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven BioPharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

ABOUT OUR IT TEAM

Here our work has a direct impact on patients – transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. All with a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more. 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. Ours is a place to innovate, take ownership and run with it. You’re trusted to explore and to find new solutions, experimenting with leading-edge technology and grappling with challenges in a modern technology environment that might never have been tackled before. It’s a dynamic and challenging environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There are countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that’s exploring new technologies in hackathons, or transforming the roles and work of colleagues, forever. Shape your own path, with support all the way. Diverse minds that work cross-functionally and inclusively together. Be part of a team that has the backing to innovate, disrupt an industry and change lives.

ABOUT THE ROLE?

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, Senior Software Engineer, specializing in imaging informatics to join our growing R&D IT team. The imaging estate at AZ is large, complex, and utilized, in one form or another, across all science units, TAs, and phases of drug development, from discovery to late science. The biomedical imaging platform has been developed to facilitate multi-domain image data management including collection, storage, processing, search, and distribution. You will take a senior engineering role in the design and implementation of platform components supporting multiple integrated workstreams in the areas of our core imaging platform for storage and processing of images and auxiliary projects to support specialized imaging domains and use cases.

Key Responsibilities

• As a senior imaging Software Engineer you are responsible for the design and build of imaging platform components supporting all imaging domains including (Pathology, Radiology, Microscopy, Mass Spectrometry, and In-vivo imaging domains)
• You are expected to interact with business analysts and other stakeholders to interpret requirements for platform components and solicit additional requirements as needed, research new technologies, and implement innovative solutions in a highly independent manner.
• Senior engineers at AstraZeneca are expected to support and mentor less experienced developers and technical support staff such as project managers, business analysts, and software test engineers.
• You are responsible for monitoring and maintenance of platform systems and integration of existing systems; also, for maintaining system’s performance to meet or exceed industry and internal standards.
• You are responsible for implementation of software in a secure manner to meet or exceed industry and internal security standards.
• You are expected to be a vocal senior contributor to Scrum meetings like daily scrum, backlog refinement, sprint retrospective, etc…

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED?

• Software development experience.
• Solid object-oriented design principles with knowledge of software design patterns as highly desirable.
• Ability to analyse user requirements, software, and code.
• Python and/or Java programming languages with ability and willingness to pick up one or the other as needed.
• Strong SQL skills desirable.
• Cloud development experience with strong preference for AWS. Familiarity with the following AWS service stack preferred: S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, ECS, Cloudwatch.
• AWS certification a major plus.
• Strong commitment to testing with experience in unit testing libraries – experience with behaviour driven development practices and principles a strong plus.
• Ability to work with GIT version control in a team development environment.
• CI/CD methods and principles using Jenkins or similar tool set.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology, especially Scrum.
• Knowledge of an image informatics data domain such as medical imaging and DICOM a major plus.
• Integrity and trust -- unwavering commitment to "doing the right thing".
• Good communication and facilitation skills.
• Good written and verbal skills, fluent English.