Senior Director - Enterprise AI Platforms

Senior Director - Enterprise AI Platforms

Location: Barcelona, Spain

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.  

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week.  

Our dedication to sustainability is also central to our culture and part of what makes AstraZeneca a great place to work. We know the health of people, the planet and our business are interconnected, which is why we’re taking ambitious action to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevention.  

About the Role 

Our goal is to build the enterprise AI platform that enables the next generation of pharmaceutical innovation - putting the world's most capable and secure AI infrastructure in the hands of thousands of scientists, researchers, and developers across AstraZeneca. As the Senior Director Enterprise AI Platforms, you will be a key strategic leader driving the development and deployment of pioneering AI solutions within our global biopharmaceutical business. Join us in our quest to revolutionize healthcare and make a meaningful impact on patients' lives worldwide! 

We're looking for an exceptional product and technical leader who has built enterprise AI platforms at scale, deeply understands what makes data scientists and ML engineers successful, regularly ships platforms that other teams bet their research and business outcomes on, and is eager to dive into everything from ML infrastructure architecture to scientific community building. The best candidates will be extremely hands-on, obsessed with developer and scientist experience, and opinionated about a future where researchers have all the AI tools they can imagine at their fingertips. 

You'll lead a team of AI engineers and product managers globally who work on everything from ML platform design and SDK development, to cost optimization and resource management, to documentation and developer tools, to enterprise partnerships and regulatory compliance. You'll partner with our research, IT, and business teams to balance cutting-edge AI capabilities with production reliability and GxP compliance. Ultimately, you'll help us build the platform that scientists choose when they're developing the most important therapeutic breakthroughs in the world. 

Responsibilities 

Strategic Leadership: Own the complete vision for how scientists and developers build with AI at AstraZeneca, from the core ML infrastructure to the tools, SDKs, and integrations that make AI accessible across every research and development environment. 

Scientific Champion & Ecosystem Builder: Build partnerships that extend our AI platform's reach through integrations, ecosystem programs, and distribution relationships with cloud providers and technology vendors. Engage directly with major partners on business relationships and technical decisions, participating in architecture reviews and shaping product roadmaps based on pharmaceutical deployment patterns. 

Enterprise Platform Product Leadership: Ship capabilities that enable production at scale: security controls, GxP compliance frameworks, enterprise authentication, and SLAs for mission-critical drug discovery applications. Design platforms that enterprise architects and regulatory teams can confidently adopt, with monitoring, governance, and documentation that answers both technical and compliance questions. Partner with internal customer