Global Data Platform Director - AI, Analytics & FinOps

BeiGene, Ltd.; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 348,000 - 435,000; Full time

Job summary

BeOne Medicines is building a unified data and AI platform ecosystem to enable trusted data products, advanced analytics, integration, automation, and AI at global scale. This leadership role owns the strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, FinOps, enablement, and governance for enterprise data platforms.

Reporting to the VP of Global Data Strategy, you will drive platform strategy across multi-region operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and lead a global CoE to deliver

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data platforms, data engineering, or enterprise data architecture, including 5+ years leading teams and managers.
• Deep architecture expertise with Databricks, Azure data services, and medallion lakehouse architecture at enterprise scale.
• Strong cloud architecture experience across Azure and AWS, including IaC, automation, and global multi-region deployment.
• Experience delivering AI and GenAI platform capabilities, including AI/BI, semantic layers, conversational BI, MLOps/LLMOps, model serving, RAG, vector search, and agentic applications.
• Strong cloud FinOps and automation background: cost optimisation, governance, show-back/chargeback, workload policy and capacity management.
• Broad experience managing an integrated data-platform ecosystem, including enterprise integration, MDM, data governance/cataloguing, RPA, and related capabilities.
• Experience in a regulated industry, life sciences or pharmaceuticals preferred, including GxP, validation and data privacy requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the multi-year architecture and roadmap for enterprise data and AI platforms.
• Publish standards and reusable patterns for ingestion, integration, streaming, semantic layers, analytics, and AI workloads.
• Design scalable, multi-domain platforms for regulated, multi-region operations.
• Lead architecture governance, technology evaluations, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Rationalise overlapping tools, reduce technical debt, and prevent duplicate investments.
• Lead vendor strategy, licensing, and partnerships aligned to the platform roadmap.
• Embed AI into the data lifecycle to improve metadata, quality, lineage, documentation, productivity, support, and cost management.
• Define enterprise patterns for AI-enabled analytics, conversational BI, RAG, evaluation, observability, and responsible AI.
• Partner with domain leaders to turn high-value AI and analytics pilots into secure, reusable enterprise capabilities.
• Maintain an innovation backlog that balances speed, business value, and regulatory discipline.
• Own platform FinOps, including capacity planning, budget governance, and cost optimisation across the data platform ecosystem.
• Create cost transparency through show-back/chargeback, workload policies, tagging, and anomaly detection.
• Establish observability for data products, pipelines, incidents, and remediation ownership.

Skills

Databricks

Azure data services

MLOps/LLMOps

AI/BI

RAG

Data governance

Cost optimisation

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

IaC

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

FinOps

Job description

BeOne Medicines is building a unified data and AI platform ecosystem to enable trusted data products, advanced analytics, integration, automation, and AI at global scale. This leadership role owns the strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, FinOps, enablement, and governance for enterprise data platforms.

Reporting to the VP of Global Data Strategy, you will drive platform strategy across multi-region operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and lead a global CoE to deliver