Overview In this Lead AI & Data Engineer role, you will shape the APD Platform, enabling R&D; teams to access and trust data for advanced analytics and AI use cases. You'll lead hands-on engineering while collaborating with data scientists, software engineers, and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable data and AI capabilities. You will drive reusable patterns, platform standards, and governance to support data-driven decision-making across the organization. This is a chance to influence how AI accelerates drug development in a collaborative, innovation-driven environment.
Compensaciones / Ventajas in-person collaboration ~3 days/week
flexible working arrangements
collaboration with global experts
Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain production-grade data and AI solutions for the APD Platform
Ingest and manage data from structured and unstructured sources with quality controls and governance
Develop and operationalize AI/ML capabilities, including model deployment and lifecycle management
Apply DevOps practices: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerisation, monitoring,



and incident response
Requisitos principales Extensive experience in data/AI/software engineering with technical leadership in a complex enterprise
Strong programming in Python (and/or another modern language); solid SQL, data modelling, APIs, version control, and automated testing
Experience designing and implementing data pipelines, data products, or data platforms in the cloud
Familiarity with one or more cloud platforms and services for storage, compute, databases, analytics, ML, identity, and monitoring
Understanding of ML engineering and MLOps, including deployment, monitoring, reproducibility, and lifecycle management
Experience deploying AI/ML solutions, including generative AI, LLM integration, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI service deployment
CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerisation, observability, agile delivery
Experience with Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, Terrafor

📌 Lead/Senior Data Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Barcelona