Director, Translational Data Enablement (m/f/d)
About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.
Site Description - Munich, Germany
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We're building a connected, end-to-end Enterprise AI engine - uniting data foundations, AI technology, process reinvention, and business-facing AI to accelerate results across the whole value chain. Success depends on being exceptional connectors: you'll actively leverage existing capabilities, celebrate and promote reuse, export breakthrough ideas across geographies and functions, and obsess over scaling impact rather than building in isolation. If you thrive in high-collaboration environments where your role is to turn complex, cross-functional problems into reusable, enterprise-wide capabilities - and where the measure of success is adoption and scale, not just innovation - you'll have the platform (and sponsorship) to make it real.
Own the transformation of translational and biomarker data into AI-ready, standardized data products that accelerate drug discovery and development.
The role sits at the critical intersection of science teams (who generate and use the data), technology teams (who build platforms and automation), and peer data leadership across clinical trial submission and preclinical/discovery domains. Primary mandate: deliver high-quality, reusable data products while building capabilities to enable a AI ready and FAIR end to end data flow.
Lead a 12–15 person distributed team and coordinate cross-functionally with peer Directors to ensure enterprise-wide data coherence and strategy alignment.
Key responsibilities:
Science Enablement & Delivery
Own delivery of analysis-ready datasets to science teams, enabling precision medicine, biomarker discovery, and hypothesis validation
Work with science stakeholders to understand analytics needs and shape data standards accordingly
Create data catalogs, metadata standards, and usage guidelines; establish feedback mechanisms for continuous improvement
Standards & Data Product Strategy
Define FAIR-compliant standards for translational/biomarker data (omics, imaging, proteomics, etc.). Establish quality frameworks and SLAs aligned to regulatory, AI/ML, and precision medicine use cases
Build semantic schemas and harmonization layers enabling integration of data from diverse sources (labs, vendors, partners) into reusable, consumable data products
Platform & Technology
Define technical requirements for translational data workflows (ingestion, validation, harmonization, delivery APIs)
Lead automation initiatives to reduce manual curation (e.g., schema-driven harmonization, intelligent quality assurance). Measure efficiency gains
Ensure integration with enterprise systems (clinical data lakes, AI/ML platforms)
Pilot new technologies (agentic AI, ML-driven quality assurance) at scale
Team Leadership & Cross-Domain Coordination
Recruit, mentor, and scale a 12–15 person distributed team of data stewards and engineers responsible for data curation, validation, and delivery
Partner with other team leads on shared deliveries, leveraging synergies and cont. increasing efficiency
Strategic Leadership
Define multi-year roadmap for expanding translational/biomarker data…