Director, RDU IT - AI

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 150.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is seeking a Director, RDU IT - AI to lead technology strategy and partner across the organization to unlock value through AI and analytics. You will drive patient-centric data platforms and collaborate with business and scientific teams to translate complex needs into scalable AI solutions.

You will manage multidisciplinary teams, oversee AI infrastructure, and ensure responsible, secure AI with governance while delivering measurable business impact.

Formación

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field; healthcare background is a plus.
• Proven production AI, ML, data science, or software solutions delivery.
• Hands-on Python and major AI frameworks with SQL knowledge.
• Strong MLOps, CI/CD, monitoring, and scalable production ops.
• Experience leading distributed teams across geographies.
• Ability to translate data insights into business actions; excellent communication.

Responsabilidades

• Lead design, deployment, and improvement of scalable AI models and systems.
• Mentor and develop regional engineering teams, fostering collaboration.
• Provide technical leadership across the full lifecycle from discovery to delivery.
• Oversee AI infrastructure, models, services, and analytics platforms for reliability.
• Integrate AI capabilities into enterprise platforms, APIs, and workflows.
• Establish reusable assets and delivery methods to accelerate AI solutions.
• Partner with leaders to translate data-driven insights into action; ensure governance.

Conocimientos

Python

ML frameworks

SQL

MLOps

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/Math

Master’s in technical/healthcare field

Herramientas

Hugging Face Transformers

LangChain

TensorFlow

PyTorch

AWS

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

This Is What You Will Do

As Director, RDU IT - AI, you will be a highly visible technology leader who partners across Alexion to identify opportunities, improve decision-making, and create measurable value through AI and advanced analytics. You will bring an innovative, collaborative, and business-focused approach to translating complex needs into scalable solutions.

This Is What You Will Do

As Director, RDU IT - AI, you will be a highly visible technology leader who partners across Alexion to identify opportunities, improve decision-making, and create measurable value through AI and advanced analytics. You will bring an innovative, collaborative, and business-focused approach to translating complex needs into scalable solutions.

You will help shape the next generation of patient-centric data, analytics, and application platforms, using healthcare data and modern technologies to advance business and scientific innovation.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, build trusted relationships with business and technology stakeholders, and communicate technical solutions clearly to audiences at all levels. You will also oversee delivery partners and service providers to ensure quality, alignment, and value.

Reporting to the Senior Director, RDU IT - Data & AI, you will lead the implementation and delivery of AI solutions while managing, mentoring, and contributing alongside engineering teams. You will guide the development, deployment, integration, and scaling of AI capabilities across business and scientific applications, with a strong focus on technical excellence, operational reliability, security, and responsible AI.

You Will Be Responsible For

• Lead the development, deployment, and continuous improvement of scalable AI models and systems that address priority business and scientific challenges


• Manage, mentor, and develop regional engineering teams, fostering high performance and effective collaboration across geographies


• Provide technical leadership across the full solution lifecycle, from discovery and architecture through implementation, delivery, and ongoing optimization


• Oversee the architecture, automation, scalability, and operational reliability of AI infrastructure, models, services, and analytical platforms


• Integrate AI capabilities into enterprise platforms, applications, agents, APIs, user interfaces, and workflows to enable seamless adoption and measurable value


• Establish reusable assets, templates, frameworks, and delivery methods that accelerate high-quality AI solutions across the value chain


• Partner with business leaders, data scientists, engineers, and subject matter experts to identify opportunities, structure problems, align priorities, and translate data-driven insights into action


• Ensure responsible, secure, and compliant use of AI through effective production governance, monitoring, versioning, performance management, and alignment with evolving regulatory requirements

You Will Need To Have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field


• Proven experience delivering production AI, machine learning, data science, or software engineering solutions, including large language models, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and AI-powered applications


• Hands-on proficiency in Python and leading AI frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, TensorFlow, or PyTorch, with working knowledge of SQL and analytical methods


• Strong MLOps and software delivery experience, including automated deployment, monitoring, lifecycle management, CI/CD, version control, containerization, and scalable production operations


• Solid knowledge of cloud-based AI and data architectures, especially AWS services, web services, data lakes, serverless technologies, Kubernetes, and elastic compute environments


• Demonstrated leadership of geographically distributed technical teams, with the ability to coach talent, manage multiple priorities, and collaborate effectively across functions


• Advanced analytical, modeling, and problem-solving capabilities, including selecting and evaluating appropriate methods, extracting insights from large datasets, and anticipating emerging business and technology trends


• Exceptional written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex technical insights into concise, actionable business terms; biopharmaceutical industry experience is highly valued

We Would Prefer For You To Have

• Master’s degree in a technical or healthcare-related field


• 10+ years of experience in machine learning, data science, or software engineering, with a strong record of delivering high-value AI solutions


• Hands-on experience designing and deploying enterprise LLM systems, including content generation, summarization, document parsing, and conversational interfaces, with expertise in managing context limitations, hallucination risk, and performance tuning


• Experience applying AI in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare environments, with knowledge of responsible AI practices such as explainability, prompt safety, and ethical risk mitigation


• Demonstrated contribution to AI communities, open-source initiatives, publications, hackathons, blogs, or other forms of thought leadership

Date Posted

28-aug.-2026

Closing Date

13-sep.-2026

Alexion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where every single person can belong because of their uniqueness. The Company will not make decisions about employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment based on race, color, religion, creed or lack thereof, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), parental status (including adoption or surrogacy), military status, protected veteran status, disability, medical condition, gender identity or expression, genetic information, mental illness or other characteristics protected by law. Alexion provides reasonable accommodations to meet the needs of candidates and employees. To begin an interactive dialogue with Alexion regarding an accommodation, please contact [e-mail]. Alexion participates in E-Verify.