# Associate Director, Data Engineer

This is an in-office role based in Barcelona, ES, with a requirement to work a minimum of three days per week on-site. Remote or travel flexibility is not available. Why this role matters AstraZeneca is transforming research and development through better use of data, technology, and artificial intelligence. Within the Enterprise AI Unit, Enterprise Data Enablement develops the data capabilities needed to support AstraZeneca’s core business. The R&D Data Office is building enterprise-level capabilities to make R&D data FAIR+T-findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable, and trustworthy. Reliable data and metadata pipelines are essential to achieving this ambition. They enable data to move efficiently from scientific and laboratory systems into trusted, discoverable, and reusable data products that can support analysis, automation, and AI-enabled discovery. As an Associate Director, you will design, implement, deploy, and maintain Data pipelines that support the end-to-end management of data and metadata across R&D priority programmes . You will work on initiatives such as SafetyOmics and AI4Assay, helping ensure that internally generated data, including multi-omics data, is captu

- **Id**: 3798100
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/astrazeneca-associate-director-data-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Barcelona, Spain
- **Countries**: ES
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T10:18:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T08:05:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6789
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Oncology Therapeutics, Rare Disease Therapeutics, Cardiometabolic Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 13195
- **Name**: AstraZeneca
- **Domain**: astrazeneca.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/astra-zeneca>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 167
- **Ghost share**: 0.012
- **Stale share**: 0.383
- **Repost share**: 0.108
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 19
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **AWS Step Functions** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T10:18:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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