About the role
Are you ready to power the business to have a bigger impact on patients' lives? Embrace the novel opportunity to work at a business that puts patients first. In Early Science, we have highly skilled scientists in our labs who experiment and support complex drug projects. The environment is driven by scientific and technical innovation with a high level of diversity in workflows, data, and vendors. The Accelerated Pharmaceutical Development (APD) platform drives digitization in two business areas, cutting across both complex synthetic modalities & biologics, that combined deliver AstraZeneca’s chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC) which are crucial activities when developing new pharmaceutical products.

AstraZeneca’s R&D; IT organisation is seeking a Lead AI & Data Engineer to join the APD Platform Data & AI team in Barcelona. This senior individual-contributor role will provide hands-on technical leadership while supporting the design, development,



and operation of scalable data and artificial intelligence capabilities that enable research and development teams to access, manage, analyse, and derive value from trusted data.

As part of the APD Platform, you will work with data engineers, AI specialists, software engineers, architects, product managers, scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and reusable platform capabilities. You will contribute to solutions that support data-driven decision-making, advanced analytics, machine learning, and emerging AI use cases across the R&D; organisation.

Key responsibilities
- You will design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain production-quality data and AI engineering solutions for the APD Platform. This will include developing data pipelines, data products, analytical services, machine learning capabilities, and AI-enabled applications that meet business, scientific, quality, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
- You will collaborate with stakeholders to understan

📌 Lead AI (Barcelona)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Barcelona