Senior Director, AI Cloud & Compute Services

AstraZeneca offers a competitive package designed to support wellbeing, growth and long-term success. Benefits typically include competitive pay, bonus opportunities, and learning and development opportunities. Employees also benefit from the chance to work on high-impact challenges in a global environment where careers can grow across functions, technologies and geographies.

Help shape and scale a multi-cloud AI platform that speeds up the discovery and development of life-changing medicines! This role leads the strategy, build and evolution of enterprise compute and cloud-native AI services used every day by scientists and engineers across the business.

The focus is clear: turn ambitious ideas into secure, compliant and reusable capabilities that work at scale. Success in this role means connecting data foundations, AI technologies and smarter ways of working into one strong platform that helps teams move faster, with less friction and more confidence. It is a chance to set direction, remove blockers and drive adoption across a global organisation!

This role will define how AI and machine learning services are used across AWS, Azure and GCP, creating a simpler and more consistent experience across multiple cloud environments. Managed services such as SageMaker, Azure ML and Vertex AI will be brought together through strong architecture, Infrastructure as Code and practical integrations that make secure adoption easier.

Enterprise compute strategy will sit at the heart of the role, balancing performance, cost, resilience and compliance. The platform will need repeatable, auditable Terraform foundations that support AI services with the rigour required in regulated environments.

The role will also unify cloud-native AI services into a more consistent platform model, with shared patterns, governance and guardrails that reduce duplication and support faster delivery. Rather than leaving teams to reinvent solutions, the platform will provide dependable standards that teams can adopt and scale.

Leadership is a major part of the remit. A high-performing team of AI platform and DevOps specialists will be built, coached and challenged to raise the bar. An automation-first mindset, strong engineering discipline and compliance-by-design approach will be central to how the team operates.

The role also carries ownership for budgets and resourcing across headcount, cloud consumption, outsourced services and specialist partners. Strong FinOps thinking will be important to improve visibility, control spend and maximise value.

Alongside delivery, this role will champion enterprise-wide adoption. Proven platform patterns, reusable components and successful ideas will be scaled across functions and geographies, helping more teams work with greater speed, safety and efficiency.

Close partnership with leaders across R&D, engineering, security and compliance will be essential. The role will translate scientific and business priorities into technical strategy, practical roadmaps and measurable outcomes.

At AstraZeneca, unexpected combinations of talent often lead to the most powerful ideas. Bringing diverse teams together creates the energy, pace and challenge needed to do meaningful work. That is why in-person collaboration remains an important part of how we operate, with a minimum of three days per week in the office on average. There is flexibility too, with room for individual circumstances and balanced ways of working.

Ready to lead a multi-cloud AI platform with real enterprise reach and real-world impact? Step into a role that will shape standards, unlock innovation and help accelerate the delivery of life-changing medicines. Take the next step and build what's next!

05-Nov-2026

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