Digital Lab - Technical Lead

Job Title: Digital Lab - Technical Lead

Career Level : E

Introduction to role

Join our Digital Lab Platform team within R&D IT to drive innovation in a leading pharmaceutical company. As the Technical Lead, you'll oversee the technical delivery of the Digital Lab portfolio, ensuring alignment with business goals. You'll bring to bear your technical expertise to lead and coordinate across a broad landscape including Software Engineering, microservices, AWS serverless architecture, and SaaS products while working closely with partners.

Accountabilities

• Collaborate with product owners, architects, and business analysts to define and drive the technical vision, ensuring alignment with product objectives and business needs.
• Maintain detailed technical designs, refine user stories, and manage technical risks and resource allocation.
• Drive for consistency of technology and design across the landscape - re-use, simplification, and standard patterns.
• Lead and mentor technical teams for improved automation and security, and foster collaboration and innovation.
• Define and communicate governance frameworks for product development, including risk management and performance metrics.
• Working with solution architects, oversee the creation and maintenance of technical documentation, including architecture diagrams and deployment processes.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, data security, and industry standards.
• Direct DevOps teams to ensure best practices in coding, security, and performance.
• Ensure data solutions adhere to FAIR principles to enhance usability and sharing.

Essential Skills/Experience

• 12+ years in software and data engineering.
• Deep expertise in Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD and automation good practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and CI/CD practices (GitHub Actions, Automation Testing).
• Skilled in coding languages (Java, Python) and cloud services (AWS, Airflow, ECS/EKS).
• Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry or similar large multinational environments.
• AWS Cloud or other relevant certifications.

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.

Working in Technology here means you'll be a self-starter who is comfortable stepping up and taking ownership, willing to constantly explore and challenge the status quo. You'll be empowered to orchestrate new possibilities, solve challenges and continuously innovate. Here you'll join hackathons, work with large data and challenge yourself to push new boundaries.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now!

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 authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.