Senior Director, Data and Information Marketplace in Cambridge

We’re building a connected, end-to-end Enterprise AI engine - uniting data foundations, AI technology, process reinvention, and business-facing AI to accelerate results across the whole value chain. Success depends on being exceptional connectors: you’ll actively harness existing capabilities, celebrate and promote reuse, export breakthrough ideas across geographies and functions, and obsess over scaling impact rather than building in isolation. If you thrive in high‑collaboration environments where your role is to turn sophisticated, cross‑functional problems into reusable, enterprise‑wide capabilities - and where the measure of success is adoption and scale, not just innovation - you’ll have the platform (and sponsorship) to make it real!

The Senior Director, Data and Information Marketplace provides strategic leadership for the capabilities, products and governance needed to help humans and intelligent agents discover, share, understand and use data and information quickly, easily and compliantly. This role shapes an integrated Data & Information Marketplace that improves the consumption experience across the enterprise, increases confidence in data and information assets, and ensures they are accessible, transparent, governed and valuable throughout their lifecycle. It ensures that data and information can be used with trust and efficiency, supports responsible and scalable reuse, and drives adoption of product‑based capabilities and tooling that enhance enterprise productivity, compliance and decision‑making.

Accountabilities

• Lead the vision for a unified Data & Information Marketplace that transforms how data and information are discovered, accessed and reused across the organisation.
• Define a clear strategy and roadmap that aligns marketplace outcomes with enterprise data, AI and business priorities, setting measurable goals and operating models that drive impact.
• Oversee product ownership for marketplace capabilities and tooling, ensuring intuitive experiences for both people and agents across discovery, access, sharing, understanding and use.
• Advise the development of capabilities for data access, lineage, observability and quality so that data assets are transparent, trusted and usable at scale.
• Shape enterprise approaches to data, information and knowledge lifecycle management, embedding governance for retention, stewardship, reuse, archival and disposal to maximise value while maintaining compliance.
• Champion new ways of managing unstructured information to improve discoverability, control and responsible use beyond traditional structured domains.
• Embed robust governance and control frameworks across marketplace services, aligned with legal, privacy, security and risk standards.
• Drive financial transparency and optimisation for marketplace platforms and services through FinOps practices that improve cost visibility, value realisation and sustainable scaling.
• Influence senior leaders across business, data, digital, security and compliance functions to secure adoption, prioritisation and continuous improvement of marketplace capabilities and ways of working.

Essential Skills/Experience

• 10+ years enterprise level leadership experience in data governance, data management, information management or enterprise data platforms, with accountability for global strategy and delivery.
• Experience in user experience design and evidence of translating this into easy, coherent, seamless experiences that are widely adopted by users and machines across multiple enterprise business units.
• Deep expertise in relevant capability areas, including data quality, observability, lineage, access management, lifecycle management and information governance.
• Measurable evidence of optimising the data P&L across covering cost/FinOps, value realisation and sustainability.
• Proven experience in product management and product ownership for enterprise data or information capabilities, including tooling, user experience and adoption at scale.
• Innovates, experiments and brings external perspectives, with a track record of applying frontier technologies and approaches to increase speed, quality and compliance of data.
• Strong collaboration skills and evidence of success in an enterprise‑scale federated ownership and delivery model, recognising when to build on the work and skills of others, and when to do themselves.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity and influence senior partners across functions, driving enterprise alignment, decisions and enterprise change in a global environment.
• Strong communication, strategic planning and execution skills, with a track record of defining measurable outcomes, prioritising investments and delivering business value through data and information capabilities.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience leading large‑scale data marketplaces or catalogues in highly regulated industries.
• Background in applying AI/ML to metadata management, knowledge graphs or intelligent search.
• Track record of building data products that directly enable scientific or clinical decision‑making.
• Familiarity with cloud‑native architectures, modern data platforms and automation for data operations.
• Evidence of building high‑performing global teams that blend engineering, product and governance skills.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash ambitious thinking with the power to inspire life‑changing medicines. In‑person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn’t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our outstanding and ambitious world!

AstraZeneca offers the chance to combine technology leadership with meaningful impact: work with modern platforms in data, analytics, AI and machine learning; experiment with innovative approaches through hackathons and modern engineering practices; collaborate with diverse experts across science and technology; and help transform how medicines are discovered, developed and delivered with strong backing, investment and a culture that encourages ownership, curiosity and continuous learning!

Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.