Role Overview
A senior engineering leadership role responsible for the technical direction, hands-on delivery, and production scaling of AI solutions across enterprise enabling functions — including HR, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Audit, Compliance, and Business Development.
This is a builder-leader role. The Engineering Director combines deep hands-on AI engineering — designing and shipping multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and governed AI applications — with the technical leadership required to drive a team from opportunity identification through to production deployment. They bring a rare and deliberate combination: the ability to move from idea to working proof-of-concept in days, alongside significant depth in AI governance, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance — not as adjacent knowledge, but as a core professional discipline that shapes how they build, assess, and operate AI systems.
The role sits within the Enterprise AI function and works in close partnership with enterprise technology, data engineering, technology governance, legal, information security,



and functional stakeholders to deliver AI that is production-grade, auditable, and compliant from the first commit — not retrofitted at the end. Given geographic considerations, the role carries particular responsibility for navigating multi-jurisdictional data sovereignty, regulatory divergence, and cross-border AI governance — ensuring systems are defensible under all applicable regulatory regimes.
Context
Enabling functions — HR, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Audit, and Compliance — govern how an organisation hires, contracts, spends, reports, partners, audits, and maintains compliance. They represent high-value AI opportunities and high-consequence environments — where outputs carry regulatory, financial, and reputational weight. Realising value at scale requires engineering leadership that can navigate complex data landscapes, build for reuse, and embed governance, human oversight, and

📌 Engineering Director (Barcelona)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Barcelona