Director - Lead Product Engineering

Job Title: Director - Lead Product Engineering

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Introduction to role:

Are you prepared to lead engineering for platforms that power our business and healthcare applications? You will turn strategy into secure, scalable products that make a tangible difference. Do you grow with shaping roadmaps, building high-performing teams, and delivering technology that stands up in the moments that matter?

As Director - Lead Product Engineering, you will guide end-to-end product delivery for solutions used by colleagues and patients across the globe. Your leadership will set the pace for engineering excellence and secure-by-design execution across multiple platforms. Partnering closely with business and technology collaborators, you will translate sophisticated needs into a clear strategy, resilient products, and measurable value accelerating how we serve some of the most under-served patient communities.

Accountabilities:

• Product Engineering Leadership: Lead the end-to-end delivery of high-impact technology products that power our commercial and patient applications, ensuring outcomes are delivered on time, at quality, and at scale.
• Engineering Excellence and Secure-by-Design: Establish and carry out standards, patterns, and guardrails for secure-by-design engineering. Champion DevSecOps practices, reliability, and continuous improvement so teams ship fast without compromising safety.
• Strategic Technical Roadmap: Define and complete a multi-year technical roadmap aligned to business priorities. Prioritize investments, retire technical debt, and ensure platforms evolve to meet future demand.
• DevSecOps and Cybersecurity: Build robust CI/CD pipelines, automate security controls, and embed threat modeling and vulnerability management from design through operations. Reduce risk while increasing velocity.
• Operational Excellence: Own availability, performance, and cost efficiency. Drive incident prevention and response, observability, SLAs/SLOs, and post-incident learning to continually set the standard.
• Collaborator and Vendor Management: Partner with IT Business Partners to lead demand and set the right strategy. Orchestrate vendor ecosystems, negotiate beneficial outcomes, and hold partners accountable.
• Talent Development: Grow a diverse, high-performing engineering organization. Recruit, coach, and develop leaders; establish clear career paths and build succession depth.
• Budget and Value Tracking: Set and lead budgets across the portfolio. Track ROI and TCO, optimize spend, and demonstrate value creation for the business and for patients.
• Global Critical issue and Communication: Serve as the global critical issue point for IT business partners and the business. Resolve sophisticated issues, align collaborators, and maintain trust through clear communication.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Strategic Vision with execution rigor
• Proven ability or a consistent record of success -leading teams in a matrix and as single contributor- in AI, APIs, DevOps practices, Marketing Automation, Web Technologies, and MarTech environments
• Consistent record in building technologies and products across platforms and handling change in organizations, developing central initiatives and/or process improvement programs
• Advance expertise in enterprise integration, API lifecycle, integration and MarTech architecture, agile methodologies, and release management.
• Ability to navigate effectively in a matrix led environment, including accountability to multiple leaders.
• Expertise in resource and budget management and prioritization frameworks
• Demonstrate sophisticated problem solving, communication, analytical, critical thinking, and strong attention to business details.
• Speak up perspective to challenge the status quo and raise and gain consensus for recommendations.
• The ability to act independently, concentrate on achieving objectives, and prioritize and handle several tasks simultaneously.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Proven leadership of large-scale product engineering in regulated or healthcare environments.
• Depth in Salesforce cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP), Mulesoft, modern architectures (microservices, APIs, event-driven), and platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and observability.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001) and secure software development lifecycle.
• Ability to translate commercial and patient-facing needs into durable, scalable technology solutions.
• Experience setting and achieving objectives and key results, DORA metrics, and SRE practices to drive performance.
• Strength in vendor strategy, contract negotiation, and global delivery management.
• Executive-level communication and collaborator alignment across business and technology.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we fuel ambitious 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 bold world.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here, purpose drives technology. You will work with passionate, diverse teams who pair kindness with ambition, bringing together different perspectives to fuel new insights that matter for patients living with sophisticated, often under-served conditions. We combine the energy of entrepreneurial problem solving with the resources of a global biopharma, creating room to build innovative platforms and learn at pace. Your leadership will directly influence how we connect to patients lived experiences, turning bold thinking into systems that move care forward every day.

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