You’ll Influence The Lives Of Millions Globally
Do you want to be part of one of the general leading innovators in the biopharmaceutical business in shaping the technology that reinforces everything we do that helps AstraZeneca push the boundaries and turns ideas into life changing medicines? The Drug Development Data Platform team here at AZ plays a key role introducing process and technology improvements such as Data Mesh, Agile, DevOps and the very latest engineering tools to maximise velocity and business value.

Apply Your Expertise In A Dynamic Team
You will join the Drug Discovery Data Platform leadership team, delivering data and digital capabilities across Target Identification and discovery through design, make, test and analyse.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will lead multidisciplinary teams delivering trusted data products, analytical products and AI-enabled solutions across the full lifecycle—from discovery and architecture through engineering, deployment, adoption, monitoring and continuous improvement.
Your work will include:




Building discoverable, interoperable and trusted data products for scientific and business users.
Developing AI solutions such as predictive analytics, intelligent search, knowledge assistants, RAG, agentic workflows and automation.
Setting standards for data engineering, APIs, analytics, machine learning and generative AI.
Providing hands-on technical leadership through architecture, design reviews, prototypes, code contributions, performance optimisation and production support.
Improving delivery through Agile, DevOps, DataOps, MLOps and LLMOps practices, automation and self-service capabilities.
Working with product managers, architects, data owners, scientists and stakeholders to prioritise opportunities and deliver measurable outcomes.
Coaching senior engineers and technical leads and promoting responsible, well-governed use of AI.
You will primarily work with our AWS data and analytics ecosystem, while co

📌 Data Engineering Lead (Barcelona)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Barcelona