Technical Lead Platform Engineering – Scientific Computing Platform (SCP)

Do you have deep expertise in platform engineering HighPerformance Computing (HPC) and cloud technologies Are you motivated to lead engineering innovation that accelerates scientific discovery and transforms patient impact Join us and help build the next generation of research computing at AstraZeneca.

We are now recruiting a Technical Lead for Platform Engineering within our Scientific Computing Platform (SCP) a cornerstone capability in our global R&D Data & Analytics organisation. The SCP provides the computational backbone for analytics across drug discovery including computational chemistry imaging multiomics structural biology data science and AI engineering combining modern HPC with a cloudnative DevOps-first approach to power science at scale.

As Technical Lead for Platform Engineering you will be a key member of the SCP engineering leadership team shaping the platforms vision driving Platform Ops and DevOps adoption and ensuring our infrastructure evolves with our cuttingedge science. You will work across teams and functions to leverage shared services remove technical burdens from others and deliver a secure reliable and scalable platform that accelerates research.

This role is based at AstraZenecas dynamic R&D site in Gothenburg where you will join an international collaborative and innovationdriven environment.

Accountability

• Serve as the technical leader for the Platform Engineering function setting direction and ensuring effective use of tools platforms and infrastructure to enable scientists IT teams and AI engineers.

• Work with the other tech leads to develop and deliver the overall SCP technical roadmap

• Evolve and harmonise technology strategies roadmaps and longterm platform vision across SCP and broader R&D IT collaborating companywide and sharing capabilities to drive best outcomes.

• Promote developer adoption and champion modern DevOps cloudnative technologies and Infrastructure as Code.

• Mentor coach and inspire platform engineers.

• Drive innovation to support emerging science while proactively reducing tech debt and simplifying the platform wherever possible.

• Push the team to overcome fundamental challenges in managing and configuring infrastructure and services leading by example through handson coding and solving complex technical problems.

• Encourage incubation of innovative ideas and approaches guided by measurable impact and operational excellence.

• Advocate agile practices and ensure high standards in code quality testing (unit/functional/integration) automation and documentation.

• Stay current with industry trends and apply relevant patterns to evolve platform architecture and practices.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Bachelors Masters or Doctorate in computer science engineering computational biology bioinformatics or related field; or equivalent experience delivering HPC cloud largescale infrastructure or AI/ML solutions.

• Experience with developing and supporting Terraform and Ansible

• Proven experience developing and operating compute infrastructure at scale including Kubernetes and Observability stacks.

• Deep understanding of cloud technologies DevOps paradigms and modern engineering practices

• Demonstrated ability to build and influence empowered DevOps/platform engineering teams and culture with a Site Reliability Engineering mindset.

• Handson experience with version control CI/CD containerisation and automation; familiarity with ML engineering practices is a plus.

• Solid grasp of agile and productcentric delivery models.

• Excellent communication collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience supporting research scientific or other dataintensive computing environments.

• Experience operating in environments that combine highperformance computing scaled cloud and advanced AI workloads.

At AstraZeneca were pushing the boundaries of science and technology to deliver lifechanging medicines. We combine data digital and AI innovation with deep scientific expertise to unlock the next wave of breakthroughs working collaboratively across teams functions and partners to create real patient impact.

If you are passionate about building platforms that enable worldclass science we look forward to your application. Join us in shaping the future of scientific computing.

Please submit your application by March 31st 2026.

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