# Director – Enterprise Data Engineering

Job Title: Director - Enterprise Data Engineering GCL: F Introduction to role: Are you ready to define the enterprise standard for data engineering and turn strategy into measurable outcomes that accelerate insights to patients? In this role, you will establish the main direction for data engineering across AstraZeneca. You will be responsible for building and scaling a distributed service that provides trusted, high-quality, secure, and cost-efficient data products at enterprise scale. You will own the end-to-end build of our data engineering capability. This includes driving visibility and lineage, automated quality controls, FinOps governance, performance SLAs/SLOs, and regulatory compliance across crucial information domains. Working as part of a varied community of specialists, you will connect strategy to execution, partnering across business technology groups to standardize how data is acquired, transformed, orchestrated, and delivered for impact. Can you turn a long-term architecture into reusable accelerators that dozens of teams embrace and love? Accountabilities: Define and execute the enterprise data engineering strategy aligned to our 2030 Data Strategy; translate visi

- **Id**: 4158717
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/astrazeneca-director-enterprise-data-engineering-2>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chennai, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T11:25:48Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T11:25:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6924
- **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**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 188
- **Ghost share**: 0.011
- **Stale share**: 0.356
- **Repost share**: 0.112
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 19
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Cortex** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **Fivetran** — Optional: no
- **HIPAA** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Airflow** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon Redshift** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Glue** — Optional: yes
- **Claude Code** — Optional: yes
- **Databricks** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Polaris** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T11:25:48Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T12:20:35Z

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