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【Alexion Japan】Snowflake Data Platform

AstraZeneca · Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan · Global

Health Tech
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Not yet analysed
Demand78
Career growth76
Healthcare fit30
Remote potential40
5-year outlook
Strong long-term compensation outlook due to scarce Snowflake and enterprise data architecture skills and continued pharma investment in data, analytics, and AI. Exact pay will depend heavily on location, seniority, and local market conditions.
Clinical license
Not required
Applicant reach
narrow
Seniority
lead
Employment type
full-time
Date found
2026-11-05

Intelligence details

Flexible work details

Engagement type
Permanent
Hours
Full-time

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Why this is worth applying to

Worth applying only if you are a clinician with deep hands-on data engineering and Snowflake architecture experience. Most clinicians without enterprise data platform experience should treat this as a long-term target rather than an immediate transition role.

Who should apply

Clinicians with health informatics, clinical data engineering, or healthcare data platform backgrounds who also have strong Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, data modeling, governance, and enterprise architecture experience. Best suited to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, or healthcare graduates who have moved into senior data/analytics roles.

CV angle

Frame clinical and healthcare experience as domain context, then lead with real enterprise data platform achievements: Snowflake architecture, data modeling, ELT with dbt/Fivetran, RBAC/security design, governance, BI/analytics enablement, and stakeholder leadership. Do not present clinical duties as the core qualification; use them to show healthcare domain understanding and cross-functional credibility.

Skills to highlight

  • Snowflake platform architecture
  • Enterprise data modeling and layered data design
  • Data governance and role-based access control
  • ELT and transformation architecture with dbt and Fivetran
  • BI, advanced analytics, and AI workload enablement
  • Architecture governance and design authority
  • Stakeholder management across engineering and business teams
  • Performance, scalability, and cost optimization

Role summary

Principal data architect role leading the design, evolution, governance, and technical standards for AstraZeneca/Alexion's APJ Snowflake enterprise data platform. The position requires deep hands-on Snowflake expertise plus architecture leadership across data integration, security, analytics, and AI use cases.

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