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# Data & Analytics Lead

- **Company:** AstraZeneca
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain
- **Salary:** €55,000.0 - €65,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Third Normal Form, Agile Methodology, Amazon S3, Business Analytics Applications, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Profiling, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Structures, DevOps, Apache Hive, Knowledge Management, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Power BI, Software Tools, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, System Availability, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Electronic Medical Records, AWS Lambda, Github Enterprise, AWS Glue, Data Analytics, Star Schema, AWS Data Analytics, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Redshift
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.es/contact-us.html

## About the Role

In order to be successful, you will be experienced with managing tech leads (or at least managing large and complex engineering teams), delivering across key elements of the data & analytics domain with proven experience working throughout the technology project lifecycle in Agile environments. You will lead a team that has delivered cloud solutions, such as the development of auto-scaling containerised ETL. Experience of ETL & cloud techniques and tools (we currently use DBT Cloud, AWS Glue or AWS Lambda for ETL, AWS data & analytics services such as S3, Athena, SQS, SNS, Redshift, Postgres, Snowflake, Starburst, Aurora, MySQL, EMR, HIVE, PIG, Spark),
Experience of visualisation technologies (Power BI) and building scalable high availability analytics solutions, providing continuous integration and continuous development (we use GitHub Enterprise), Experience of data analysis - profiling, investigating, interpreting and documenting data structures. Familiarity with data modelling techniques and hands on modelling experience (third normal form and star schema)
You'll be leading a team of senior engineers who work closely with IT colleagues mainly in the UK, Chennai, Barcelona and Guadalajara. We have business partners and team members spread globally, so you would have experience of a variety of delivery management approaches, providing technical leadership throughout our software development lifecycle, from the initial development of a technical design based on a blueprint, right through to hypercare and continuous enhancements across many projects.

## Description

Do you want to be part of one of the global leading innovators in the biopharmaceutical business in shaping the technology that reinforces everything we do that helps AstraZeneca push the boundaries and turns ideas into life changing medicines? The Drug Development Data Platform team here at AZ plays a key role introducing process and technology improvements such as Data Mesh, Agile, DevOps and the very latest engineering tools to maximise velocity and business value.
Apply Your Expertise in A Dynamic Team
You will join the Drug Development Data Platform leadership team which is responsible for delivering data driven solutions across many different domains in support of clinical product development. This includes Clinical Operations, Digital Patient Clinical Devices, Patient Safety and Human Bio sampling. The R&D Data Platform is organised into DevOps teams specialising in: Information Architecture, Data Engineering, BI Engineering, Knowledge Management, Data Science, Data Analysis and Information Governance.
You'll work very closely with Platform Leads, Lead Solution Architects and Senior Business Stakeholders to prioritise, estimate and plan work. Constantly looking for opportunities to get the most out of our Agile, DevOps teams and introducing process and technology improvements such as Data Mesh and Cloud Native engineering tools to maximise velocity and business value. You will work primarily on our AWS data platform but there are also some opportunities to work our Azure platform.


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