Market Access Application Engineer Jr

Introduction to Role

Are you ready to harness automation and AI to keep critical market access systems running at peak performance and help medicines reach patients faster? Do you thrive where precision, accountability and rapid problem-solving are essential in a regulated environment?

In this junior engineering role, you will support and evolve the technology that underpins pricing, contracting, payments and forecasting across multiple markets. You will join a high-energy team that blends engineering rigor with curiosity, using modern tools to monitor, troubleshoot and improve a confidential, tightly controlled platform. Your work will restore service quickly, prevent incidents before they happen and deliver automations that free our colleagues to focus on patient impact.

This is a hands-on opportunity to learn from experienced engineers and business partners, working across applications, data flows and integrations. You will translate business needs into technical actions, engage vendors and internal teams, and contribute to a culture that values learning, ownership and thoughtful risk management.

Accountabilities

• Platform Reliability and Monitoring: Maintain high availability by proactively monitoring business applications and middleware interfaces; run start-of-shift checks, end-of-shift handovers and daily source-to-target data validations to catch issues early.
• Incident Response and Root Cause Analysis: Triage, troubleshoot and resolve incidents on the Market Access platform; execute structured root cause analysis to prevent recurrence and shorten time to restore.
• Data Integrity and Operational Excellence: Validate critical data flows from source to target systems; protect accuracy and timeliness for pricing, contracts and payments that directly influence business decisions.
• Continuous Improvement and Automation: Identify and implement optimizations using scripting, integration tooling and AI—including early exploration of LLM-based solutions—to reduce manual effort and improve user experience and system resilience.
• Compliance by Design: Embed SOx controls and quality procedures into everyday work; document evidence, manage change rigorously and coordinate closely with quality management stakeholders to pass audits with confidence.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with business process owners, vendor teams and support groups; translate technical issues into clear business language, facilitate effective communication and maintain high customer satisfaction.
• Project Participation: Contribute as a team member across Market Access projects, supporting delivery alongside business-as-usual responsibilities.
• Ways of Working and Prioritization: Use incident and agile management tools, apply structured prioritization to focus on what matters most and sustain a disciplined cadence in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Growth and Team Culture: Learn through innovation, share learnings openly, own mistakes, ask for help early and help build a reliable, trusting team.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Degree-level education in computer science or a related discipline.
• Foundational knowledge across core platform technologies: SnapLogic, Unix/Linux and shell scripting, Python, and SQL.
• Basic understanding of emerging technologies and concepts, particularly AI and its practical applications.
• Ability to prioritize competing business needs based on criticality and impact.
• Attention to detail, especially when validating data and monitoring system behaviour.
• Able to translate technical concepts into clear, everyday language for business users.
• Strong analytical skills: structured problem-solving, root cause analysis, active listening, observation and fact-checking.
• Proactive mindset with the ability to collaborate efficiently within fast-paced, evolving teams.
• Effective communicator with a high sense of accountability and initiative, committed to supporting team performance and collective goals.
• Good spoken and written English language skills.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience with incident management tooling and on-call or shift-based support routines.
• Familiarity with agile tools and practices for continuous improvement and delivery tracking.
• Beginner-level experience with Oracle or MySQL databases.
• Exposure to Large Language Model implementation within applications (prompt design, integration, evaluation).
• Basic understanding of Databricks, including notebooks, Spark or Delta Lake for data engineering tasks.
• Awareness of SOx audit controls and quality management processes in a regulated environment.
• Familiarity with MoSCoW or comparable prioritization methodologies.
• Exposure to market access, pricing, contracting or financial forecasting processes in life sciences or other regulated industries.
• Hands-on experience building or monitoring integration pipelines in platforms like SnapLogic.
• Experience with Linux automation, scheduling or observability tooling.
• Comfortable collaborating across time zones with vendors and internal partners.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash 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 work with modern data and integration technologies, explore AI in real use cases and see how your engineering directly supports patients' access to our medicines. We bring diverse experts together to solve problems that haven't been tackled before, pairing ambition with kindness and learning with ownership. With meaningful investment behind our digital strategy, you will have the tools, mentorship and freedom to experiment through events like hackathons, build real solutions at scale and grow your craft while contributing to breakthroughs that matter.

Call to Action

If you're ready to grow fast, strengthen a mission-critical platform and push the boundaries of automation and reliability to help patients access therapies sooner, send us your application and let's shape what's next together.

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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.