Snowflake Enterprise Data Management Platform Associate Director

AstraZeneca is looking for an Associate Director to work in an enterprise data platform service team.

Our data platforms are fundamental to enable AstraZeneca’s bold ambition to be the pioneers in science, leaders in our disease areas and transforming patient outcomes. We are looking for a Lead Engineer to drive the optimization, maturity and adoption of our Enterprise Snowflake Data Platform by the Business Technology Groups [BTGs].

IGNITE Enterprise Data Office (EDO) – Data & Information Availability Services (DIAS) is a central team leading Enterprise Data and engineering platforms and solutions. We look after enterprise technology platforms which enable AZ data engineers to solve data challenges

What you’ll do

• Drive and evangelize strategy and vision for the Enterprise Snowflake service

• Establish goals and objectives for the service; build plans for quarterly program increments

• Manage stakeholders across multiple business domains and global locations; manage contracts and liaison with product vendor account managers and architects

• Provide direction to team on service maturity and prioritization; champion hiring and coaching for the service team

• Run Quarterly and Half-Yearly service reviews with capability leaders and business stakeholders; effectively manage cross tower and service dependencies, risks and mitigation plans

• Manage and govern service utilization, service consumption estimates and forecasts, recharge targets and capacity procurement

HIGHLIGHT THE SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES NEEDED ​

• You have solid experience having worked with one or more data platforms; have driven planning & execution of data platform migrations (For ex., AWS Redshift / Databricks to Snowflake) at an Enterprise scale

• You have managed a team of technical leads and engineers in a multi-national organization with members spread across global regions & locations for ex., Guadalajara, Mexico; Barcelona, Spain; Chennai, India

• Have worked with Architects, Engineering Leads, Snowflake Professional Services & Account Management across multiple business domains & global locations

• You have created service adoption strategy and plan for an enterprise data platform service

• Can embrace and evangelize ‘Enterprise Ways of Working’, evangelize Snowflake as a technology within AZ Data, Visualization and AI community and you are enthused to ramp-up adoption for Service

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

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• Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

• Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it’s yours.

• If you’re curious to know more then please reach out to (contact person) We welcome with your application, no later than (Month) (XX)

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite ambitious thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working give 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 outstanding and bold world.

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law.