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
Unified Trial Solution – Clinical Trial Site and Investigator | Evinova (AstraZeneca Group)
About Evinova:
Are you ready to be part of the future of healthcare? Can you think big, be bold, and harness the power of digital and AI to tackle longstanding life sciences challenges? Then Evinova, a health tech business within the AstraZeneca Group, might be for you.
We are building software that transforms clinical trials for billions of patients worldwide. Evinova delivers market-leading digital health solutions that are science-based, evidence-led, and committed to human experience. We combine deep scientific expertise with modern software engineering and artificial intelligence to create new standards across the sector.
About Our Engineering Organization:
Our Product Engineering organization consists of multi-functional squads with the people and skills needed to deliver innovative digital products to patients and healthcare providers in clinical trials worldwide. We ship on quarterly program increments using agile methodologies.
We are proud to have one of the strongest software development teams in the health tech space, with deep technical and domain expertise. This is a place where you can build meaningful products, solve complex problems, and grow alongside engineers who care deeply about their craft and its impact.
About the Role:
This is not a traditional management role. We are seeking a hands-on engineering leader who actively writes and reviews code, makes architectural decisions, and leads by building alongside their team.
You will own the technical direction and delivery of the Clinical Trial Site and Investigator product areas within Unified Trial Solution while leading a multi-squad engineering organization. You will spend a significant portion of your time in the codebase, reviewing pull requests, partnering with engineers on complex challenges, evaluating AI-assisted development workflows, and ensuring scalable architecture. The remainder of your time will be focused on team development, cross-functional collaboration, and technical strategy.
We are looking for someone who can serve as the strongest technical voice within their product area and provide clear technical leadership across architecture, delivery, and engineering excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Hands-On Technical Leadership (50%+ of Time):
- Review pull requests, provide code-level feedback, and enforce engineering quality standards.
- Own architectural decisions across APIs, data models, service boundaries, and infrastructure.
- Write production-ready code for complex and foundational platform components.
- Partner with engineers to solve challenging technical problems while coaching and mentoring.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools, workflows, and best practices.
- Define and maintain standards for testing, CI/CD, observability, and deployment practices.
- AI-Native Engineering Culture
- Integrate AI tools into daily software development workflows.
- Evaluate and implement AI capabilities across Clinical Trial Site and Investigator products.
- Ensure AI-generated code is reviewed, tested, and held to the same quality standards as human-written code.
- Stay current with advancements in AI-assisted development and translate them into practical team improvements.
Team Leadership and Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop a multi-squad engineering organization.
- Build technical leadership capability within squad leads and senior engineers.
- Conduct technical interviews and assess candidates’ engineering capabilities.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, psychological safety, and accountability.
- Manage performance through clear expectations focused on quality, impact, and delivery.
Product and Delivery Leadership:
- Partner closely with Product Owners, Product Managers, Design, Clinical Operations, and other stakeholders.
- Translate clinical and business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Provide technical insight on prioritization, architecture, risk, and long-term maintainability.
- Influence product direction through data, experimentation, clinical understanding, and engineering expertise.
- Drive predictable, high-quality delivery against quarterly objectives.
- Collaborate across the Unified Trial Solution organization to ensure architectural consistency and platform reuse.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven record of delivering production systems.
- 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams while remaining hands-on with software development.
Deep expertise in at least one of the following technology stacks:
- React / React Native
- Node.js
- Java
- AWS Cloud Services
- Strong architectural leadership across frontend, backend, and infrastructure components.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering AI/ML capabilities in production environments, including LLM-powered or agentic AI solutions.
- Experience building software for healthcare professionals, clinical researchers, clinical trial operations, or site-facing applications.
- Familiarity with regulated software development environments, including GxP and SaMD.
- Experience with remote patient monitoring solutions and clinician-facing data visualizations.
- Contributions to open-source projects or demonstrated technical thought leadership.
- Clinical research industry experience.
What This Role Is Not
- A people-management role disconnected from software development.
- A project management role focused on timelines and coordination.
- A superficial AI adoption initiative. We seek someone who has meaningfully integrated AI into their development practices and can lead others to do the same.
Why Evinova?
Evinova draws upon AstraZeneca's extensive experience in developing innovative therapeutics, informed by insights from patients and clinical researchers worldwide. Together, we are accelerating the delivery of life-changing medicines and transforming clinical trial experiences through digital innovation.
We operate with a hybrid working model and expect employees to work from the office a minimum of three days per week, fostering collaboration, innovation, and connection while maintaining flexibility.
Join us as we build a new kind of health technology business and redefine what is possible for patients, healthcare professionals, and the life sciences industry.
Date Posted
21-Aug-2026Closing Date
03-Sep-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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