AstraZeneca seeks a Director-level AI Engineer in Barcelona to set technical direction for Generative AI, AI Agent, and Digital Twin initiatives across general operations. This forward-deployed leadership role combines hands-on technical authority with enterprise-wide accountability for AI engineering standards and delivery excellence.
Responsibilities
- Define reference architectures, design patterns, and delivery playbooks for GenAI, AI Agents, and Digital Twins across teams
- Embed with critical programmes to unblock technical challenges, review designs and code, and ensure production readiness
- Establish technical review forums and communities of practice to share learning and raise engineering capability
- Partner with project leads to assess risks, dependencies, and scope AI initiatives; provide hands-on technical consultancy
- Mentor engineers across teams and represent AI Engineering in governance and leadership forums

Requirements




- Bachelor's degree in operations research, mathematics, computer science, or related quantitative field
- 10+ years delivering ML/AI projects; 5+ years as technical lead, principal engineer, or architect
- Advanced Python expertise and familiarity with database systems such as Snowflake or Neo4j
- Deep hands-on expertise designing, building, and productionizing generative AI and agentic systems at scale
- Strong understanding of software development, algorithms, optimization, and scaling across multiple initiatives
- Proven track record setting technical direction and raising standards without formal line management authority
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-influencing skills with credibility to advise senior leaders

📌 Director, Operations IT (España)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 España