Director – Enterprise Data Engineering Lead
Core
Define and execute enterprise data engineering strategy, building and scaling a distributed service to provide trusted, high-quality data products at enterprise scale for AstraZeneca.
Role type
Director, Enterprise Data Engineering Lead
Builds
Enterprise data engineering capability, distributed data services, and reusable accelerators for dozens of teams.
Domain
Healthcare/Pharma, Cloud Data Engineering
Required skills
Data engineering leadership, data acquisition, storage, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, CI/CD, containerization, Open table standards (Iceberg), metadata management, FinOps, SLA/SLO frameworks, regulated industry compliance (HIPAA, GxP, SOx)
Preferred skills
Building new capabilities from scratch, scaling globally, talent development, change management (via careerplan.io/jobs/R-256947-1-director-enterprise-data-engineering-lead-at-astrazeneca)
Technologies
Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, DataOps.live, SnowPark Container Services, Apache Iceberg, Snowflake Horizon, Snowflake Cortex, AWS S3
Responsibilities
Define enterprise data engineering strategy and adoption roadmap; build and lead a high-performing specialist team; champion automation and AI code generation; embed governance-as-code and preventative controls; operate and scale a federated service across business groups; partner with cross-functional leaders to ensure compliant delivery; drive adoption through education and community practices.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical direction