Senior Director Cybersecurity Engineering, Innovation, and Assurance

About AstraZeneca  

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that pushes the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. More than just a leading pharmaceutical company, we are a vibrant community of innovators dedicated to making a difference in medicine, patients' lives, and society. We foster an inclusive, collaborative culture where you're empowered to push your entrepreneurial spirit, champion diversity, and commit to lifelong learning and growth. At AstraZeneca, you’ll be part of something bigger.  

Our Cutting-Edge IT Environment  

Here our work has a direct impact on patients – transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining pioneering science with leading digital technology platforms and data. All with a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more. Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth. Focused and committed, and backed with the investment to succeed, we’re driving cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry. Ours is a place to innovate, take ownership and run with it. You’re trusted to explore and to find new solutions, experimenting with groundbreaking technology and grappling with challenges in a modern technological environment that might never have been tackled before. It’s a dynamic and exciting environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There are countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that’s exploring new technologies in hackathons, or transforming the roles and work of colleagues, forever. Shape your own path, with support all the way. Diverse minds that work multi-functionally and inclusively together. Be part of a team that has the backing to innovate, disrupt an industry and change lives.  

About the Role  

The Senior Director Cybersecurity Engineering, Innovation, and Assurance will lead a team of senior security engineers, managers, and specialists maintaining corporate wide AI and information security, such that AstraZeneca’s AI and information assets are protected at the highest level of confidentiality, integrity and availability. Working in the office of the AZ Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), the role is responsible for overseeing the AstraZeneca’s AI and information security needs via providing leadership and support for cyber and AI risk management, policy development, regulatory compliance, data privacy and IT security operations.  

The Senior Director Cybersecurity Engineering, Innovation, and Assurance will lead a team that plans, executes, and sustains the full lifecycle of AI controls and cybersecurity capability. The cybersecurity annual planning process and budget are owned by this role. This role is responsible for overseeing AstraZeneca’s business enabling AI and information security needs by bringing an innovator’s perspective and providing strong technology leadership. This role supports emerging AI control protocols and solutions, cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS security, infrastructure security, digital asset development and lifecycle risk reduction, software development risk reduction, annual recurring red team risk reduction and remediation efforts, cybersecurity architecture, IT solution technical and engineering threat modelling, emerging IoT/OT cybersecurity controls, capability innovation, cybersecurity controls assurance and data protection. Expect the scope of this position to evolve as technology, ways of working, and pharmaceutical advances change at a rapid rate. This role is critical to the global cybersecurity effort as it demands cross functional engagement across all IT, cybersecurity, and business functions. Ability to effectively influence, engage, and achieve consensus outcomes is a critical must have for success in this position.  

Typical Accountabilities  

• Maintain continuous awareness of AI controls and cybersecurity technology market developments. Develop requirements, understand and apply engineering trade analys