Scientific Informatics Lead

Do you have expertise in and passion for developing and deploying digital innovation to accelerate drug development in the pharmaceutical industry Join AstraZeneca and use your expertise to implement data driven & AI approaches and help deliver life-changing medicines to patients worldwide. This isnt just a role its your opportunity to transform the future of medicine and improve millions of lives.

What we do

AstraZeneca is a global science-driven BioPharmaceutical business and our innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. Ultimately our aim is to work towards a cure for some of the worlds most complex diseases. Whether thats by shaping the patient ecosystem and focusing on outcomes or by progressing potential medicines and accelerating their launch.

Pharmaceutical Sciences at AstraZeneca delivers the therapies of the future through scientific leadership in drug delivery design of synthetic routes and manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and drug essence we are working from molecule to medicine to develop medicines for our patients today and tomorrow.

The Predictive Science Digital and Automation (PSDA) department leads the digital transformation of Pharmaceutical Sciences to drive innovation optimize drug development and enable data- and predict-first driven decisions. We develop and apply computational chemistry machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodologies - coupled with user centric informatics for seamless data capture integration insight and prediction. This is coupled with strong leadership and expertise to advance lab and process automation all to accelerate projects.

The role

We are seeking a Scientific Informatics Leadto champion our scientific informatics execution across Pharmaceutical Sciences. This roleis based at our R&D site in Gothenburg Sweden and combines both leadershipandhands on development thatbridges experimental science and digital innovation. You will lead the development of future agentic AI workflows ensuring we unlock the full value of our scientific data and drive our strategic goals of increased productivity and speed within our drug projects.

You will collaborate with world-class scientists IT and data teams to:

• Lead and/or contribute towards the vision roadmap and implementation of digital lab automation and AI solutionsenabling scientific productivity and scientific knowledge management.

• Use your experience of working with data to embed best practices ensuring data capture management and analysis are fully integrated with scientific and digital workflows.

• Be a strong leader in a community of informaticians and digital championsraising digital and AI literacy across the scientific organisation.

• Partner on the development and deployment of next-generation digital toolssuch as laboratory automation systems FAIR data products and an agentic AI infrastructure.

• Collaborate with Predictive Science teamsto ensure all informatics solutions are analytics-ready and drive robust data pipelines for AI/ML applications.

• Act as an influential voice for digital transformationwithin Pharmaceutical Sciences

Expected background for the role

• Graduate or postgraduate degree in natural sciences (chemistry biology or related) data science or other relevant discipline.

• Proven track record in scientific informatics (cheminformatics bioinformatics or lab automation)

• Demonstrated experience and/or leadership of working within a scientific environment but with a passion to develop and learn new informatics data and AI skills OR an experienced data / computer scientist with a desire to work in close partnership with lab-based scientists.

• Excellent written and verbal communication business analysis and consultancy skills.

• Basic skills in high level programming or data-lake/database tools (e.g. Snowflake or similar cloud platform)

Why AstraZeneca

At AstraZeneca we turn ideas into life changing medicines and strive to continuously meet the unmet needs of patients worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. Ultimately its more than a job. We know that our work impacts people with serious conditions many of whom have no other alternatives. Thats what drives us the potential to impact over one billion patients worldwide.

So whats next

Are you already imagining yourself joining us Good because we cant wait to hear from you!

Welcome with your application; CV and cover letter no later 15 February 2026.

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