Head Of Data & Ai Platforms, Beijing

AstraZeneca

Beijing, China
On-site
10+ years ai/ml platform engineering experience
5+ years leading technical teams with 8+ direct reports
Mandarin fluency required for beijing operations
AstraZeneca is seeking a Head of Data & AI Platforms for its new Beijing AI Center, focusing on enhancing drug discovery through advanced AI methodologies. The role involves leading a team to establish AI capabilities, ensuring data governance, and creating evaluation frameworks while collaborating with Discovery teams and IT

Job Summary

  • This role defines the AI capability layer for AstraZeneca's new Beijing AI Center, bridging raw compute infrastructure and scientific discovery teams.
  • The successful candidate will build reusable platform capabilities including data governance, model evaluation frameworks, and agentic AI applications tailored for biologics discovery.
  • You will lead a team of 8-10+ engineers in Beijing, establishing standards for reproducibility, experiment tracking, and compliance with local data regulations like PIPL.

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AstraZeneca is seeking a Head of Data & AI Platforms for its new Beijing AI Center, focusing on enhancing drug discovery through advanced AI methodologies. The role involves leading a team to establish AI capabilities, ensuring data governance, and creating evaluation frameworks while collaborating with Discovery teams and IT.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 10+ years AI/ML platform engineering experience
  • 5+ years leading technical teams with 8+ direct reports
  • Mandarin fluency required for Beijing operations
  • Experience building internal AI products from scratch
  • Knowledge of China cloud providers (Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu)
  • Familiarity with Chinese LLM ecosystem (Qwen, DeepSeek)

Nice-to-have

  • Biopharma domain knowledge in drug discovery
  • Experience with academic partnership management
  • Background in computational chemistry or protein engineering
  • Ability to attract top AI talent in competitive market
  • Experience navigating multi-org delivery models

Key Requirements

  • 10+ years in AI/ML platform engineering
  • 5+ years leading technical teams
  • Minimum 8 direct reports
  • Mandarin language fluency
  • On-site presence in Beijing required

Work Rights

Must have work authorization for China; Mandarin fluency required

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