Job Title: Associate Director, RDU IT Data Engineering
Global Career Level: E
Role: Individual contributor role
Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore.
Local candidates who can join immediately are preferred.
About Alexion
At Alexion, our mission is to transform the lives of people affected by rare diseases through the development and delivery of innovative medicines as well as supportive technologies and healthcare services.
Introduction to role
As Associate Director, RDU IT Data Engineering, this role leads the design and delivery of next-generation, patient-centric data and AI platforms that power rare disease innovation. Acting as a hands-on technical leader, it builds highly scalable, reliable, and secure data products and pipelines on modern cloud platforms, embedding AI throughout the lifecycle to increase speed, quality, and resilience. The position supports responsible AI use in daily workflows. This includes AI copilots that speed up development and automated testing that improves quality.



It also involves observability tools that detect issues early and governance that helps meet GDPR, HIPAA, and FAIR principles passionate about trustworthy data products. It raises the bar on engineering excellence while mentoring others in protected and effective AI use to help transform complex data into meaningful impact for patients.
Accountabilities
Solution delivery
Design and build cloud-native ELT/ETL data pipelines and domain-oriented data products on AWS and Snowflake that are scalable, cost-efficient, and resilient.
Define and implement patterns for batch, micro-batch, and event-driven integrations; optimize for performance, reliability, and security.
AI-accelerated development
Use AI copilots to scaffold SQL/Python/dbt code, generate unit/integration tests, suggest query optimizations, and infer schemas/mappings.
Employ AI to auto-generate technical docs, lineage summaries, and code comments; integrate prompt standards and review checkpoints into PR workflows.
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📌 Associate Director, RDU IT Data Engineering (Bengaluru)
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