Product Lead - Data and Automation - Biologics Discovery Platform
AstraZeneca

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to revolutionize antibody discovery? At AstraZeneca, we're not just about creating life-changing medicines; we're about creating a culture of innovation and teamwork. We're building the Biologics Discovery Platform within R&D IT, and we need a Biologics IT Product Lead to help us achieve our bold goals. If you're passionate about augmenting biologics discovery using automation, data, and computational methods, this role is for you!

Accountabilities:

As a Product Lead, you will be responsible for understanding and detailing R&D demand, crafting demand with R&D, collaborating closely with Biologics Engineering and other collaborators, leading the multi-quarter roadmap for your domain, prioritizing features, encouraging biologics data and AI products, collaborating with Platform and Capability Leads, prioritizing Business Reference Group (BRG) meetings, and acting as an in-house guide and trainer on biologics discovery methods and bioinformatics. You will also propose technical solutions for complex biologics discovery workflows and lead PoC efforts.

Essential Skills/Experience:

- Bachelor's Degree

- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Domain expertise in computational biologics discovery and scientific software development
- Experience leading full stack software products
- In-depth knowledge of computational and experimental techniques used within biologics discovery
- Experience of leading software, data, and automation solutions in drug discovery delivery as a product lead
- Experience using relational databases to perform ad hoc analyses
- Experience of data analysis - profiling, investigating, interpreting, and detailing data structures
- Excellent verbal and written skills for effective communication
- Experience working in Agile environment within SCRUM teams

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.

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. Focused and committed, and backed with the investment to succeed, we're driving cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry.

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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.