AI Team Lead

Expertise in, and passion for, Data Science? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the Data & AI team in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

About the role

We are seeking a dedicated AI Team Lead to support AstraZeneca's ambition of putting AI at the heart of 80% of our business processes by 2025. You will lead a team of AI engineers and work with other AI leads to help structure the delivery of intricate deliverables. The role will be accountable for the development of reusable AI services and assets that bring foundational and pioneering techniques to solve impactful process driven challenges. It will also involve fostering best practices around the development and deployment of AI algorithms within key business processes.

Sitting alongside other senior AI leads as part of the Enterprise Reusable AI Services LT, you will provide technological leadership for others in the wider organisation. This will involve a high degree of collaboration with leads to make sure that products can be used by other engineering teams and problems solved collectively across teams. This includes involvement in and responsibility for realising delivery excellence best practices covering the entire Reusable AI Services group, line managing AI engineers and influencing internal and external collaborators with the goal of delivering innovative and adopted AI services.

As a strong software engineering leader you will contribute to the creation of tailored and reusable delivery patterns and working closely with our AI Platforms team, to ensure that our engineers have access to the relevant infrastructure and project support to enable them to perform their best.

Other key accountabilities

* Lead and inspire a team of AI Engineers in Sweden, developing pioneering reusable AI services and assets, working in partnership with other AI leads spanning the domains of natural language processing, optimisation, time series analytics, information engineering, computer vision and new AI innovations.
* Lead best practices related to agile AI product development and contribute towards the structuring and planning of key AI products across the Reusable AI Services portfolio.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have a background as an AI engineer or data scientist and have significant experience in structuring and leading agile AI product teams. You have successfully led the planning and execution of sophisticated AI products within successful engineering teams. This experience will be called on to coach other AI teams on agile product lifecycle development and used to forge delivery patterns and ways of working on a portfolio of complex AI outputs. To succeed, you have experience leading junior colleagues, delivering technical workshops and providing technical mentorship. The candidate will be expected to identify and translate customer demand into detailed and practical software briefs and help to articulate customer benefits when securing their sponsorship and support. Experience developing AI in a regulatory or compliance setting is desirable with an appreciation for the documentation and diligence required to deliver ethical AI responsibly. Experience of developing and running machine learning models using cloud platforms, building APIs and awareness of the challenges of deploying web services for different audiences will also be key.

We also see that you have:

* BSc/MSc/PhD in Computer Science or related quantitative field
* Experience in the modelling of elaborate datasets in applied business and/or scientific application domains, resulting in the expansion of innovative AI algorithms and applications
* Strong software development skills in at least two of the standard data science languages (such as R or Python) and familiarity with database systems (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, graph)
* Expertise and leadership in software development best practices and principles (software architecting, linting, CI/DI, unit tests, OOP, Git)
* Understanding of algorithm design, development, optimization, scaling and applications
* Experience building, leading and delivering against a multi-functional portfolio of customer demands and requirements
* Excellent written and verbal communication, business analysis, and consultancy skills
* Ability to work with various senior business and technical stakeholders, forging agreement and sponsorship towards team initiatives and innovations
* Enthusiasm for advising on best in class delivery patterns that enable AI developers to do their best work

Why join us

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.

About AstraZeneca

At AstraZeneca, we 're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit.

SO, WHAT NEXT?

Are you up for an exciting challenge and ready for making a difference? If so, hit Apply today - we can't wait to hear from you!

Open Date: 04/03/2022

Close Date: 25/03/2022