Associate Director Data Engineering role at AstraZeneca's Barcelona R&D; center focused on building data infrastructure and pipelines for oncology data products. The position requires a Master's-level data engineer with 5+ years of experience to advance the data stack, automation, and observability capabilities while ensuring data reliability and governance.

Responsibilities

- Design and maintain ETL infrastructure and data pipelines for data products and analyses
- Collaborate with data scientists to define data requirements and build systems to meet organizational needs
- Implement data ingestion, transformation, and storage systems following FAIR principles
- Monitor and optimize reliability, scalability, and performance of data systems




- Establish and maintain data governance policies for security, privacy, and data integrity

Requirements

- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Bioinformatics
- 5+ years of relevant data engineering experience
- Proficiency in Python and scientific libraries (pandas, numpy, scipy, polars)
- Experience with structured and unstructured data sources (HDFS, SQL, NoSQL)
- Expertise in scientific compute environments (HPC, cloud, Unix/Linux)
- Deep knowledge of FAIR data principles and data quality techniques

📌 Associate Director Data Engineering (España)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 España