Lead AI & Data Engineer – APD Platform

About the role Are you ready to power the business to have a bigger impact on patients' lives? Embrace the novel opportunity to work at a business that puts patients first. In Early Science, we have highly skilled scientists in our labs who experiment and support complex drug projects.

The environment is driven by scientific and technical innovation with a high level of diversity in workflows, data, and vendors. The Accelerated Pharmaceutical Development (APD) platform drives digitization in two business areas, cutting across both complex synthetic modalities & biologics, that combined deliver Astra

Zeneca’s chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC) which are crucial activities when developing new pharmaceutical products. Astra

Zeneca’s R&D IT organisation is seeking a Lead AI & Data Engineer to join the APD Platform Data & AI team in Barcelona. This senior individual-contributor role will provide hands-on technical leadership while supporting the design, development, and operation of scalable data and artificial intelligence capabilities that enable research and development teams to access, manage, analyse, and derive value from trusted data. As part of the APD Platform, you will work with data engineers, AI specialists, software engineers, architects, product managers, scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and reusable platform capabilities.

You will contribute to solutions that support data-driven decision-making, advanced analytics, machine l