Posted date Oct. 16, 2026 Contract type Full time Job ID R-261980
Why choose AstraZeneca India?
Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Ownership takers
If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.
Challenge seekers
Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.
Proactive collaborators
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.
Responsibilities
Job ID R-261980 Date posted 10/16/2026
Job Title: Senior Analyst - Data Quality
Career Level: D1
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to turn complex healthcare data into trusted insights that power smarter decisions for brands and, ultimately, better outcomes for patients? In this role you will be a hands-on internal consultant to a specific brand team, ensuring the data that fuels our commercial analytics is accurate, consistent and fit for purpose. You will connect thorough data quality practices with advanced analytics to help shape strategy across segmentation and targeting, patient opportunity identification, return on investment analyses, and market simulations.
Based in Chennai, you will collaborate with Marketing, Medical, Market Access, Sales, Forecasting and other commercial partners to design and deliver robust analytical solutions. You will set a higher standard on how we source, engineer, validate and interpret syndicated and custom datasets, including longitudinal patient-level data. Do you thrive on building confidence in data so teams can move faster and act with clarity?
Accountabilities:
Data Quality Strategy and Governance: Define, implement and continuously improve data quality frameworks, standards and controls that ensure accuracy, completeness and timeliness of syndicated, custom and longitudinal datasets used for brand analytics.
Analytical Solution Design: Design, build and validate predictive and prescriptive analytical solutions that enable brand teams to make evidence-based decisions, ensuring data lineage, reproducibility and model transparency throughout.
Longitudinal Data Stewardship: Lead the integration, harmonization and quality assurance of claims, EMR and other patient-level data to unlock reliable insights across patient journeys and market dynamics.
Segmentation and Targeting Excellence: Develop and operationalize high-quality customer segmentation and targeting approaches, linking data quality checks directly to downstream field effectiveness and resource allocation.
Measurement and return on investment analytics: Drive robust test-and-learn designs, return on investment analyses and performance measurement, embedding controls to reduce bias and increase confidence in outcomes.
Market Simulation and Patient Flow Modelling: Translate data into actionable simulations and patient flow models, ensuring inputs and assumptions meet defined quality thresholds to inform brand and access strategies.
Collaboration and Influence: Partner with cross-functional leaders to identify business questions, prioritize enhancements, and embed new analytic capabilities and quality practices across teams.
Capability Development: Champion modern platforms and methods, mentor colleagues in advanced analytics and data engineering guidelines, and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and curiosity.
Innovation and External Scanning: Monitor advances in analytics and data engineering within and beyond pharma, piloting relevant techniques and technologies to strengthen data quality and insight generation.
Ethics and Compliance: Uphold the highest standards of ethics, compliance and transparency in all data and analytics activities, ensuring responsible use of patient-level and commercial data.
Essential Skills/Experience:
Quantitative Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience from an accredited college or university is required in one of the following or related fields: Engineering, Operations Research, Management Science, Economics, Statistics, Applied Math, Computer Science or Data Science. An advanced degree is preferred (Master’s, MBA or PhD).
2+ years of experience in Pharmaceutical / Biotech / Healthcare analytics or secondary data analysis.
5+ years of experience in application of advanced methods and statistical procedures on large and disparate datasets.
4+ years of recent experience and proficiency with PySpark, Python, R, SQL.
Working knowledge on platforms like Databricks.
Working knowledge of data visualization – PowerBI, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Qlikview, D3js or similar tools is a plus
Experience in MS Office products - Excel and PowerPoint skills required.
Proficiency in manipulating and extracting insights from large longitudinal data sources, such as Claims, EMR and other patient level data sets.
Experience with IQVIA data sets
Ability to derive, summarize and communicate insights from analyses
Organization and time management skills
Expertise in managing and analyzing a range of large, secondary transactional databases is required.
Statistical analysis and modelling background
ML a plus
Statistical Analysis & Modelling: Design of Experiments, Time Series, Regression, Applied Econometrics and Bayesian methods.
Data Mining, Predictive Modelling & Machine Learning algorithms.
Optimization & Simulation.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with a significant number of business leaders and cross-functional business partners.
Strong communication and influencing skills with demonstrated ability to develop and effectively present succinct, compelling reviews of independently developed analyses infused with insight and business implications/actions to be considered.
Strategic and critical thinking with the ability to engage, build and maintain credibility with Commercial Leadership Team.
Strong organizational skills and time management; ability to manage diverse range of simultaneous projects.
Knowledge of AZ brand and Science (Oncology in particular).
Experience using Big Data, is a plus. Exposure to SPARK is desirable
Should have Excellent Analytical, Problem Solving ability. Should be able to grasp new concepts quickly
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
Why AstraZeneca:
Here you will join a high-performing, digitally savvy community that blends scientific purpose with practical impact, placing ethics and transparency at the heart of everything we do. You will work shoulder to shoulder with colleagues across the enterprise, harnessing modern platforms and data to drive meaningful change for patients and the business. We bring together diverse problem solvers to ignite bold ideas, support each other with kindness and ambition, and give you the autonomy to turn insight into action while growing your craft on projects that truly matter.
Call to Action:
Step into this role to elevate the quality of data that powers critical brand decisions and accelerate your impact on patients’ lives—submit your application and shape what science can achieve next.
Date Posted
16-Oct-2026
Closing Date
18-Oct-2026 AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
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Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Sales Representative Oslo, Norway There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Sales Representative California, United States Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
Sales Representative Petaling Jaya, Malaysia There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Lifelong learning
Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.
Autonomy and reward
Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.
Health and wellbeing
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.
Inclusion and diversity
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.
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