Associate Director Data Engineering

Astrazeneca - Barcelona

| Campo | Descripción | |------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Job Title | Associate Director Data Engineering | | Company | AstraZeneca Spain | | Description | Join a leading biopharmaceutical company at AstraZeneca Spain's Data Engineering team based in Barcelona. Drive data infrastructure and pipelines that support Oncology R&D products, contributing to transformative medicine for critical diseases. This role requires senior-level expertise and collaboration in digital innovation. | | Responsibilities | Build and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure, ensure data quality and FAIR principles adherence, collaborate with data scientists and stakeholders, implement data governance, and stay current with data engineering technologies. | | Requirements | Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Bioinformatics, 5 years experience, advanced Python knowledge and scientific libraries, experience with structured and unstructured data sources, cloud and HPC environments, knowledge of FAIR data principles and data quality best practices. | | Desirable Skills | Metadata models, controlled vocabularies, data pipeline orchestration tools, AWS services (S3, EC2, Lambda, etc.), software development and testing, biological/health data expertise (NGS, omics). | | Location | Barcelona, Spain (in-office, minimum 3 days onsite per week) | | Job Type | Full-time | | Language | English |