Why choose AstraZeneca Spain?
AstraZeneca Spain is a rising force in our global business. With headquarters in Madrid and our global hub in Barcelona, we’ve become an important international centre of excellence in the fight against critical disease. Boasting vibrant universities and business schools, the Barcelona ecosystem is a place where scientists can thrive. We attract a diverse workforce from across the globe, shining a beacon for innovation in a country that’s committed to clinical development.
We invite you to bring your talents to Barcelona where our respiratory medicine R&D and Global Marketing centre offers opportunities in R&D, IT, Commercial and HR. Or join us in Madrid and shape our growth in our BUs (Respiratory, Oncology & CVRM ), and a range of Corporate functions. Additionally, you can find sales roles throughout the country. Together, we’re contributing to a world-leading pipeline of therapeutics and delivering life-changing medicines to patients.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca Spain, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. Alongside technical expertise, colleagues have the resilience, energy and collaborative mindset to change lanes, work with different teams and start projects from scratch.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Madrid or Barcelona, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Diverse collaborators
This is a speak-up culture that values collaboration. You’ll proactively bring your unique perspectives, experiences and skills to the table and seek the same from others. With our international team composition and the need for fast-paced collaboration, you’ll always be building new connections with colleagues.
Cutting-edge innovators
When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that embraces digital technology and data to transform the way we work and the work we do. Every day, you’ll help make history, empowered to ignite your creativity and build something enduring.
Resilient trailblazers
Here, the answers aren’t always available. So, you’ll need to bring a fearless, self-starter mindset to navigate uncharted territories. You’ll harness your ceaseless energy to discover and make the necessary connections with colleagues to shape the future and achieve maximum impact.
Agile movers
Seize ownership and excel with autonomy to enjoy the constant rush of ground-breaking discovery. Your ability to anticipate sudden shifts and adapt swiftly will prove critical as you make your mark in an environment that rewards initiative and resilience.
Responsibilities
Evinova is seeking a passionate and experienced Data Foundation Engineering Lead to guide in the transformation of our platform-wide data foundation to enable our products, data science, and agents to deliver category leading capabilities. Join us in leveraging cutting-edge technology, data, and AI to revolutionize life sciences and improve billions of lives globally.
In this pivotal role, you will design, implement, and optimize robust cloud-based data lakehouse infrastructure and operational frameworks that enable rapid innovation and deliver exceptional system reliability. You will be one of the senior-most engineers within the team; expected to be hands on, guide, and mentor the team. You will need to share your expertise in cloud data infrastructure, automation, and best practices with the whole of Evinova.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure Design & Management:
AWS Data Services: Deep hands-on experience with Lake Formation, Glue (ETL + Catalogue + Schema Registry), Athena, and at least one of EMR / Redshift Serverless. You understand how these compose, not just how each works in isolation.
Open Table Formats: Production experience with S3 Tables, Apache Iceberg (preferred), or Delta Lake. You understand partition evolution, schema evolution, time travel, and compaction — and when each matter.
Streaming: Built production streaming pipelines with Kinesis Data Streams or MSK. Comfortable with exactly once semantics, windowing, late-arriving data, and backpressure.
Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK (TypeScript) or CloudFormation. You define infrastructure in code, not in the console. CI/CD for data pipelines is expected, we currently use GitHub Actions, and some Terraform.
Data Modelling: Can design dimensional models, event schemas, and slowly changing dimensions. Understand the trade-offs between normalized and denormalized storage for different access patterns.
Governance and Security: Practical experience implementing column-level security, row-level filtering, or tag-based access control. Understands how data classification drives policy.
Python or Spark: For ETL logic, feature extraction, and data quality validation. PySpark or Spark Scala for distributed transforms.
AI & Machine Learning: Exposure to AI tools and frameworks is a plus.
Mentorship & Leadership: Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration. Provide technical leadership in the adoption of the tooling, patterns, and automation best practices.
Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams, including product management and security, to align data foundation strategies with business goals and ensure cohesive development and operational workflows.
Required Experience & Qualifications:
Experience: 10+ years in Data Engineering roles, with significant experience in SaaS and multi-tenant data platforms. Proven track record of mentoring team members in data platform related projects.
Cloud Expertise: Strong understanding of AWS services, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, AWS WAF, and AWS CloudTrail.
Data Products: Expert knowledge of S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Glue, DataZone, Athena, RedShift Serverless,and AWS EventBridge.
Containerization & Orchestration: Deep proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and associated ecosystem tools.
CI/CD Proficiency: Expertise in CI/CD tools such as ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced experience with AWS CDK (TypeScript preferred) and CloudFormation.
Security: Good knowledge of IAM, AWS KMS, encryption standards, AWS WAF, and security compliance frameworks including NIST.
Monitoring & Alerting: Good experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, and AWS CloudTrail for monitoring and incident response.
Data & ETL Pipelines: Extensive knowledge with AWS Glue, AWS Kinesis, and Managed Kafka for real-time and batch data processing.
Programming & Automation: Strong scripting and automation skills using TypeScript and Bash.
Multi-Account AWS Management: Experience managing multiple AWS accounts with AWS Control Tower.
Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
Desired Experience & Qualifications
Advanced expertise in AWS CDK, including building complex, reusable constructs and pipelines.
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS platforms and best practices.
Experience working with AI tools and frameworks.
Personal Attributes
Big Picture: Able to understand the strategic direction and help architect smaller initiatives with the direction in mind.
Mentor & Leader: Enjoys mentoring team members, and fostering a collaborative, innovation-driven team culture.
Organized & Adaptable: Able to manage multiple priorities and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Innovative: Passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex problems and drive efficiency.
Customer-Focused: Dedicated to building infrastructure that delivers measurable business and customer value.
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
Are you ready to make a difference? Apply now and join us in our mission to change lives!
Date Posted
29-jul-2026Closing Date
12-ago-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, inclusivity, balance and sustainability. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
An award-winning company
We're passionate about being a great place to work, and 84% of our employees would recommend us as an employer. We've been recognised as a Top Employer in Spain, an EFR Family Responsible Business, and we achieved third place in Forbes Spain's Top 50 Best Places to Work list.
Inclusive environment
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do, and our different views, experiences and strengths enrich our culture. There's no salary gap at AstraZeneca, and the number of female employees has increased by four per cent over the last three years. We've also made all positions fully accessible.
Work-life balance
Your wellbeing means a lot to us, and we're here to support you through all of life's ups and downs. That's why we offer an unpaid leave policy, annual leave, reduced-hours timetables and a host of benefits, including a retirement plan, long service award, and health and travel insurance.
Sustainability initiatives
We're committed to harnessing the power of science to become a more sustainable business. We've reduced our carbon footprint by over 9,000 kg of CO2 over the last two years, and we lead the European GoGreen Project, which aims to introduce environmentally friendly options in our fleet of corporate vehicles.
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