Enterprise Data & Analytics Platforms Director

We are seeking an expert and visionary leader to join our team as the Enterprise Data & Analytics Platforms Director in our Operations IT department. This role will be instrumental in shaping and implementing our data and analytics strategy to support business objectives and achieve our 2030 vision.  

The Enterprise Data & Analytics Platforms Director will play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining an integrated data ecosystem, maximising advanced analytics to drive business insights, and ensuring data quality and security across our operations while efficiently leading AstraZeneca resources.  

The successful candidate will lead a high-performing team responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.  

Key Responsibilities:  

Strategy and Leadership  

• Collaborate with AstraZeneca Operations leadership and business partners to define and implement the data and analytics platform strategy aligned with operations business goals.  

• Manage and lead a team of data and IT professionals, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.  

Data Infrastructure and Architecture  

• Lead all aspects of the design, implementation, and maintenance of a scalable, self- optimising data infrastructure on AWS.  

• Ensure the reliability, performance, and security of data platforms to align with AstraZeneca enterprise standards.  

• Implement and lead platform operations and cloud resources, focusing on cost optimization and operational efficiency through a mature DevOps model.  

Data Analytics and AI Platforms  

• Lead all aspects of the design, implementation, and optimization of robust Data Foundation services and platforms to ensure delivery.  

PlatformOps  

• AWS Environment management  

• AWS Infrastructure provisioning, upgrades and monitoring  

FinOps  

• Develop strategies to lower the AWS & Snowflake costs  

• Finance management - MTP, Budget, Chargeback, licences management, contract renewals  

• Lead and optimize the technology stack, ensuring alignment with security, architecture, compliance, and performance standards, for:  

• Storage platforms – Snowflake, S3 etc  

• Integration platforms – DBT, snaplogic, Fivetran etc  

• Ensure automation is at the heart of our processes and technologies to ensure effective and responsive delivery timeframes.  

Data & Infrastructure Observability Platform  

• Develop, communicate, and implement an observability platform for five key pillars: Data Quality, Pipeline, Infrastructure, User, and Cost.  

• Implement strategy to reduce AWS and snowflake costs

Innovation and Continuous Improvement  

• Keep up-to-date with industry trends, new technologies, and standard methodologies in data and analytics (preferably pharmaceutical sector). 

• Look to use the newest technologies in AI agentic frameworks to deliver a self-healing and self-optimising data platforms.  

What you bring  

• Extensive experience in CloudOps, DevOps, <