Job Description

Job Title: Lead Consultant - AI Solutions Engineer
GCL: E
Introduction to role:
Are you ready to lead the next wave of Agentic AI and turn ambition into real outcomes for patients and the business? In this role, you will set the direction for AI solutions that accelerate discovery, improve decision-making, and safely scale innovation across the enterprise. Your work will create the building blocks and guardrails that empower teams to deliver AI with speed, consistency, and trust.
You will partner across functions to design and implement a federated model for AI solution creation, enabling citizen developers while upholding rigorous standards and regulatory requirements. This is a chance to shape how AI is built and governed at AstraZeneca, guiding teams from idea through compliant delivery and establishing practices that become the blueprint for our digital future.
Accountabilities:

• Agentic AI Strategy: Define and lead the technology strategy for the Agentic AI ecosystem, setting a clear path from early capability to enterprise-wide adoption and measurable impact.
• Design Standards and Compliance: Establish robust design standards and ensure technology delivery aligns with AstraZeneca policies and applicable regulations, creating trusted and auditable solutions.
• End-to-End Solution Leadership: Own planning, analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of AI solutions, driving right-first-time delivery that scales and sustains.
• Citizen Developer Enablement: Create curated AI building blocks and structured enablement pathways that unlock self-service innovation while maintaining quality and control.
• Governance Workflows: Design and operationalize governance workflows that balance speed with safety, embedding risk management and ethical AI practices into everyday development.
• Federated Operating Model: Build and evolve a federated model that decentralizes AI solution creation responsibly, enabling domain teams while ensuring global coherence.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, data, security, compliance, and engineering teams to align use cases, resolve challenges, and accelerate delivery.
• Guidance and Influence: Advise project teams, influence cases, and drive alignment to standards, acting as a trusted technology leader who converts complex needs into clear, actionable plans.
• Outcomes and Scale: Measure adoption, performance, and business value, using insights to iterate building blocks, improve workflows, and expand the impact of AI across the enterprise.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Experience across planning, analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of AI solutions.
• Proven ability to lead the technology strategy for an Agentic AI ecosystem.
• Demonstrated capability to establish robust design standards and deliver technology compliantly.
• Collaboration to drive the growth of AI across AstraZeneca, including structured enablement of citizen developers via curated AI building blocks.
• Expertise in governance workflows and a federated operating model for democratized AI solution creation.
• Ability to guide project teams, influence cases, and ensure alignment with AstraZeneca standards and regulatory requirements.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience building enterprise AI platforms and reusable components (e.g., orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, observability).
• Background in MLOps/ModelOps, model lifecycle governance, and responsible AI practices.
• Familiarity with large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, vector stores, and prompt engineering.
• Knowledge of data privacy, security, and healthcare-related compliance domains.
• Track record enabling citizen developers through training, documentation, and communities of practice.
• Strong communication and stakeholder influence skills that translate technical detail into business value.

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.
Why AstraZeneca:
Here, technology and science meet at scale, backed by investment and a bold digital vision. You will join a community that experiments, learns fast, and turns ideas into impact--whether through hackathons, cross-functional partnerships, or building reusable AI ecosystems that speed decisions and unlock data value. We value kindness alongside ambition, empower ownership, and create the conditions for you to shape how AI transforms our company and, ultimately, patients' lives.
Call to Action:
Step into a role where your leadership in Agentic AI will shape enterprise capabilities and deliver real-world impact--bring your vision, build the ecosystem, and help us change what's possible!
Date Posted 07-Jan-2026
Closing Date 14-Jan-2026
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 authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

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