Director of Software Engineering Excellence

Director of Software Engineering Excellence

Introduction to role:

Join us in a key leadership role within our Enterprise Capabilities & Solutions (ECS) group at AstraZeneca IT. As the Director of Software Engineering Excellence, you will be responsible for establishing and maintaining strong governance over secure software development standards, practices, and methods across the enterprise. This role offers an opportunity to directly manage the central software engineering team and influence leaders and senior partners across business, product, and technology teams. 

Accountabilities:

You will design and implement strategies for our central and federated software engineering teams, lead the development of technical methods, and partner with the Enterprise Architecture function to create durable, reusable software frameworks. You will also be responsible for analyzing various quality and trust signals across distributed scrum teams to identify improvement opportunities, leading Communities of Practice, and serving as AstraZeneca IT’s go-to Subject Matter Expert within the domain of expertise.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Broad Software Engineering experience across a range of fields, including cloud platforms, distributed computing, networking, OS, and web services.
• Expertise in establishing Software standards and policies across global organizations with federated teams including secure software standards.
• Advanced knowledge of software application development and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical fields (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies and enabling CI/CD tools
• Excellent presentation and training skills.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills.
• Experience leading globally distributed team of Software Engineers within own organization.
• Experience in leading through influence, the larger federated teams of software engineers.

• Experience in driving initiatives to incorporate Sustainability and Ethical considerations in Software Development at Enterprise Scale
• Experience in Crisis Management and Risk Mitigation strategies across software estate

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, we are on a journey to become a digital and data-led enterprise. Our work has a direct impact on patients, transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining ground breaking science with leading digital technology platforms and data. We dare to lead, applying our problem-solving attitude to identify and tackle opportunities across the whole enterprise. Our spirit of experimentation is lived every day through our events like hackathons. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering world-class technology and data solutions. Our work unlocks the potential of science. We optimise and revolutionise AstraZeneca by maximising efficiencies and finding new ways to drive productivity.

Are you ready to disrupt an industry and change lives? Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth. Apply now!

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.