Director, Data & Information Marketplace

Director Data & Information Marketplace

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to build an enterprise-wide data and information marketplace that turns trusted data into a competitive advantage for patients and the business As Director Data & Information Marketplace you will set the direction and lead the capabilities that let colleagues discover access understand share and use data with confidence accelerating science operations and decision-making.

You will shape product strategies governance and operating practices from the earliest stages turning uncertainty into clear plans and scalable services. Do you thrive on translating user needs and regulatory requirements into intuitive compliant experiencesboth for people and machineswhile driving adoption at pace

Accountabilities:

- Data & Information Marketplace Strategy and Operations: Define and evolve marketplace strategy capabilities and operating practices; contribute to the enterprise roadmap governance and prioritisation to increase adoption compliance and user satisfaction.
- Marketplace Product Ownership and User Experience: Own marketplace products and services end-to-end; translate user business and compliance needs into a clear backlog and seamless experiences that serve both human and machine users to drive sustained adoption.
- Data Access Transparency and Quality: Implement scalable approaches for access management lineage observability and quality; establish controls standards metrics and issue resolution to ensure data is transparent trusted and usable.
- Information Governance and Lifecycle Management: Lead lifecycle practices for data and information assets including retention reuse archival and disposal; support unstructured information management and alignment to governance and quality standards.
- Governance Risk and Compliance: Embed governance and control requirements across marketplace services; manage risks and uphold confidentiality integrity and availability in regulated environments.
- Financial Management and Service Optimisation: Deliver cost visibility and investment tracking; find opportunities to improve efficiency scalability and value realisation across platforms and services.
- Leadership Improvement and Change: Shape strategy roadmap and success measures; lead change initiatives represent the function across programmes and introduce innovative practicessuch as AI-assisted stewardship and automationto accelerate adoption quality and compliance.

Essential Skills/Experience:

- Significant experience in data marketplace governance data management information management or enterprise data platforms with accountability for leading delivery or change in sophisticated environments.
- Experience in user experience design and translating this into clear effective and adoptable experiences for users and machines.
- Good knowledge of relevant capability areas including data quality observability lineage access management lifecycle management and information governance.
- Experience in product management and product ownership for enterprise data or information capabilities including tooling user experience and adoption.
- Solid understanding of regulated legal privacy security and risk environments with the ability to balance accessibility and usability with appropriate control.
- Demonstrated ability to innovate experiment and bring external perspectives applying emerging technologies and approaches to improve speed quality and compliance.
- Strong collaboration skills recognising when to build on the work and skills of others and when to lead directly.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity and influence partners across functions driving alignment decisions and change.
- Good communication planning and delivery skills with experience defining outcomes prioritising team and delivering business value through data and information capabilities.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

- Experience designing and scaling enterprise data marketplaces or catalogs across both human and API-based consumption.
- Practical knowledge of FAIR data principles and data product thinking including data contracts and semantic standards.
- Hands-on experience with modern data platforms and tooling (for example Azure/AWS Databricks Snowflake data quality and lineage tools).
- Background in highly regulated industries and privacy regimes (for example GxP HIPAA GDPR) and their application to data access retention and disposal.
- Service design and product analytics experience to measure adoption usability and value realisation.
- FinOps or cloud cost management experience to drive transparency and optimisation.
- Change leadership and enablement including training communications and community-building for data producers and consumers.
- Information architecture and metadata management for both structured and unstructured information.
- Demonstrated use of AI and digital tools to improve speed quality and compliance in day-to-day work.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing -person working gives us the platform we need to connect work at pace and challenge perceptions. Thats why we work on average a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesnt mean were not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca:
Here data digital and science meet to change how medicines are discovered developed and delivered. You will work at the heart of our transformation partnering early with teams across the business to set direction shape ecosystems and scale what workswith the backing to experiment the tools to implement and the trust to lead. We value curiosity and kindness alongside ambition bring diverse minds together to solve problems that have not been tackled before and celebrate the impact your marketplace will have on faster better decisions for patients and colleagues.

Lead the data and information marketplace that powers life-changing sciencesubmit your application and start shaping what comes next!

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