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
Principal Enterprise Architect Data & AI Commercial- GEA IT
Introduction to role
Our Commercial Enterprise Architecture team supports the global development of platforms and solutions to enhance AstraZeneca's Global Business across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, and Patient Business capabilities. The Principal Enterprise Architect for Commercial Data and AI will drive the strategy and architecture for Data and AI Platforms within the Commercial Domain. This role involves working with pioneering technologies such as Amazon Q, Sagemaker, Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, DataBricks, Redshift, Snowflake, and more. Collaborate with engineering teams and other business units to provide vital designs, patterns, reference architecture, frameworks, and services focused on data ingestion, extraction, processing, transformation, transport, storage, visualization, security, and knowledge representation. Your work will support the fundamental elements of the data world for AstraZeneca's global Commercial businesses.
Accountabilities
- Collaborate with Commercial IT and Business professionals to augment digital transformation efforts by identifying and piloting use cases. Discuss feasibility and architectural design with business teams and translate business leaders' vision into realistic technical implementation.
- Align technical implementation with existing and future requirements by capturing inputs from multiple collaborators — business users, Commercial IT Data scientists, security professionals, data engineers and analysts, and IT operations — and developing processes and products based on these inputs.
- Play a key role in defining the Commercial Data and AI architecture and selecting appropriate technologies from a pool of open-source and commercial offerings. Ensure new tools are well-integrated with existing data management and analytics tools.
- Work closely with security and risk leaders to foresee and mitigate risks such as training data poisoning, AI model theft, and adversarial samples. Ensure ethical AI implementation and restore trust in AI systems while staying updated with upcoming regulations.
- Plan data and AI architecture and pipelines. Understand the workflow and pipeline architectures of ML and deep learning workloads. Possess in-depth knowledge of components and architectural trade-offs involved across data management, governance, model building, deployment, and production workflows of AI.
- Apply software engineering and DevOps principles, including knowledge of DevOps workflows and tools such as Git, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
- Use data science and sophisticated analytics tools (such as SAS, R, Python) along with applied mathematics, ML frameworks (such as TensorFlow), and ML techniques (such as random forest and neural networks).
- Provide thought leadership to help the organization adopt a Data and AI-driven approach. Take a pragmatic approach to the limitations and risks of Data and AI while projecting a realistic picture to IT executives.
- Foster a collaborative attitude to ensure that the Commercial Data and AI platforms deliver both business and technical requirements. Collaborate optimally with data scientists, data engineers, data analysts, ML engineers, other architects, business unit leaders, and CxOs.
Essential Skills/Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Data Science or AI engineering or related field.
- Experience in leading and delivering enterprise Data and AI platform architectural thinking and its practical application.
- Experience in conceptual and logical data modeling technologies.
- Experience in defining and working with information and data regulatory governances.
- Blend of data/information architecture, analysis, and engineering skills.
- Experience in known industry IT architectural patterns and methodologies (e.g., Redshift Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q, Sagemaker).
- Understanding of AI Platforms concepts and cloud-based containerization strategies for hybrid cloud environments.
- Familiarity with AI lifecycles based on business use cases.
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Post-graduate degree in MIS or AI.
- Extensive experience in a senior AI/Data Science/Data Engineering role with practical examples of designing end-to-end data architecture designs or blueprints for substantial real-world use cases.
- Experience with AI and Data Governance frameworks in a commercial organization.
- Experience in Agile AI definition scrums.
- Proficiency in tooling such as metadata cataloging tools, data modeling tools, EA tools.
- Hands-on experience in AI model building (LLM/LVM) working closely with different data types to generate clear accuracy models.
- Experience working in the AI Pharmaceutical industry.
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.
At AstraZeneca, we connect the dots across the business to improve agility and functionality of our processes to accelerate our journey to the next level. Our team of highly qualified professionals are persuasive communicators who negotiate with empathy. We are always mindful of the human impact of the changes we drive which helps us reach better complete solutions for the business.
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AstraZeneca 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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