Company overview
- Sector
- Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Sub-sector
- Pharmaceuticals
- Mandate (derived)
- Sales, Marketing & BD
- Parent headquarters
- England, United Kingdom
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $58,700,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 33,947
- India headcount
- 1,000+
GCC locations
- Chennai
- Bengaluru
GCC notes
Drug discovery AI, clinical data platforms and digital health product engineering
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .GIS
- .NET
- 10x Genomics
- 24-7 Media
- 3M 360 Encompass - Health Analytics Suite
- ABAP
- ABB Robotics
- AC500 PLC
- ACL
- ADP GlobalView Payroll
- ADP SmartCompliance®
- AI
- ALEX
- ANGEL LMS
- ARGUS Developer
Public leadership
Harish Dash
Country Head-Digital and IT
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Key roles
Data Scientists (Clinical/Drug Discovery); Bioinformatics Engineers; Software Engineers (Digital Health); Regulatory Data Analysts; AI/ML Research Engineers
Research overview
AstraZeneca plc is a UK-headquartered global biopharmaceutical company (LSE/Nasdaq listed) focused on oncology, cardiovascular/renal/metabolic, respiratory/immunology and rare diseases, operating in 100+ countries.
- India launch
- 2014
- Maturity
- Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC
The India footprint spans IT infrastructure, application development, Global Business Services, R&D/site-management support and digital/data science roles across Chennai (now the 'Global Innovation & Technology Centre') and Bengaluru - a broad, multi-domain capability center.
Timeline
- 2014
AstraZeneca launched its Global Technology Centre (GTC) in Chennai, its first insourced IT facility, at Tata Ramanujan Info Park (~150,000 sq ft).
- 2024
AstraZeneca marked 45 years of operations in India, reporting over 4,500 employees across commercial, operations, technology, innovation and R&D functions.
Real estate
site: Chennai Global Technology Centre; location: Tata Ramanujan Info Park, Chennai; size: ~150,000 sq ft
Hiring signal
- Open roles
- 30
- As of
- 2026-08-26
- Data Scientist / Analyst
- Senior Statistical Programmer
- Platform Lead - Pharmacovigilance/Patient Safety
- Scientific Communications & Medical Information Analyst
- DevOps Lead / Platform Engineer
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.