Director, Clinical AI Delivery & Governance

AstraZeneca; Gaithersburg (MD); On-site; USD 186,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Qualified retirement programs

Paid time off "vacation" and holidays

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Job summary

AstraZeneca is building a world-class AI for Clinical Development capability. The Senior Specialist will define governance, manage multimodal data, and coordinate delivery from research to regulatory-ready outputs.

This role emphasizes compliance, data quality, and cross-functional collaboration across clinical, regulatory, IT, and data teams. Ideal candidates have 5 years handling complex datasets, familiarity with FAIR data, cloud environments, and MLOps.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing complex scientific or clinical datasets, including multimodal data.
• Experience defining or owning data and/or model management processes, standards, or governance frameworks, ideally in a regulated environment.
• Fluency with FAIR data principles and their application in life sciences.
• Working knowledge of cloud-based data environments, modern data platforms, and dataset management workflows.
• Understanding of AI/ML data requirements for model development, validation, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and maintain team-wide standards, SOPs, templates, and checklists for data and model intake, curation, dataset release, documentation, and handover.
• Own the team's approach to data and model governance and quality, including dataset versioning, lineage, and traceability.
• Coordinate data access, transfer, and curation with data owners, management, IT, and external collaborators.
• Run and coordinate operational workflows that move clinical AI work from research to validated outputs and handover to partners.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, quality, and privacy requirements; support audits and inspections.

Skills

Python

Cloud platforms

MLOps

Data governance

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation

Data management

Education

Bachelor's degree in data science

Master's degree in related field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

AstraZeneca is building a world-class AI for Clinical Development capability. The Senior Specialist will define governance, manage multimodal data, and coordinate delivery from research to regulatory-ready outputs.

This role emphasizes compliance, data quality, and cross-functional collaboration across clinical, regulatory, IT, and data teams. Ideal candidates have 5 years handling complex datasets, familiarity with FAIR data, cloud environments, and MLOps.