Senior Director, Semantic Platform Enablement
Core
Lead the design and enterprise enablement of AstraZeneca's semantic platform to ensure data is consistently understood, reliably connected, and reusable by humans and AI.
Role type
Senior Director, Enterprise Semantic Platform Strategy & Enablement
Builds
A scalable, federated enterprise semantic mesh and core semantic layer for data interoperability.
Domain
Life Sciences / Biopharma / Enterprise Data Architecture
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Enterprise data architecture, W3C semantic data stack, semantic layer design (ontologies, taxonomies, canonical modelling), interoperability across data products, platform delivery and scale adoption, partner leadership and influencing, federated community governance.
Preferred skills
Large-scale AI or agentic systems enablement, life sciences or biopharma data domains, modern data mesh concepts, knowledge graphs or graph databases, regulatory or compliance considerations for enterprise data platforms.
Technologies
W3C semantic data stack, knowledge graphs, graph databases
Responsibilities
Define and execute semantic platform strategy; establish initial semantic models and canonical entities; build and scale an enterprise semantic mesh; partner with product and domain leaders to align architecture with use cases; drive integration of structured and unstructured information; provide architectural leadership and governance; manage external partner engagement and delivery.
Seniority
Senior Director, strategy, architecture, and cross-functional leadership