Drimva

AstraZeneca

Head of Enterprise Digital Engineering

$258K–$387K

US - Gaithersburg - MD · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026

Experience
Significant senior leadership experience; no specific number of years stated.
Education
Degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, information technology or a related field.

About the job

Leads the strategy, product direction, engineering and operation of enterprise platforms, including cloud, data, integration and AI capabilities, to improve delivery, reliability and business outcomes.

What you'll do

  • Set platform strategy, portfolio roadmaps and investment priorities; manage platforms as products and balance shared standards with domain needs.
  • Build and scale platform engineering and forward-deployed teams, reusable services, automation and self-service capabilities, including responsible AI services.
  • Own platform service performance, adoption, resilience, security, cost and lifecycle; measure value and develop multidisciplinary leadership teams.

What they ask for

  • Significant senior leadership experience across digital platforms, platform engineering, cloud services or enterprise technology products.
  • Experience building, scaling or operating shared technology platforms in a large, complex organisation and leading a product-oriented platform operating model.
  • Track record enabling teams through reusable platforms, automation and self-service; leading multidisciplinary teams; and owning roadmaps, investments, service performance and customer outcomes.
  • Degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, information technology or a related field.

Nice to have

  • Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences, healthcare or another highly regulated industry.
  • Experience scaling generative AI, machine learning or intelligent platform services.

Pay

$258,157.60 - 387,236.40 USD (base salary)

Tools

cloud, DevOps, APIs, data ingestion, generative AI, agents, machine learning, advanced analytics

AI focus

Lead AI for technology and deploy reusable generative AI, agent, machine-learning and analytics platform services, with responsible adoption and appropriate security, compliance, observability and lifecycle controls.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)