SAP Analytics Products & Services Director

Role Title : SAP Analytics Products & Services Director

Location : Chennai

We are one purpose-led global organisation. The enablers and innovators, ensuring that we can fulfil our mission to push the boundaries of science and discover and develop life-changing medicines. We take pride in working close to the cause, opening the locks to save lives, ultimately making a massive difference to the outside world.

AstraZeneca (AZ) is in a period of strong growth and our employees have a united purpose to make a difference to patients around the world who need both our medicines and the ongoing developments from our science. In this journey AZ must continue to work across borders and with partners and new colleagues in a fast and seamless way. The ambition, size and complexity of the organisation, coupled with the opportunities afforded by new technology, has led the Board to approve a large-scale transformation programme – Axial.

The Axial Programme will be powered by S / 4HANA a new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system which will be implemented right across the organisation and will provide our business with standardised processes, enhanced financial management, common data and real time reporting, transforming the way we work through our entire supply chain - from bench to patient.

The new system will be used by more than 20,000 employees daily, is foundational to all AZ entities and is central to most core business processes. This is a once in a generation programme for AstraZeneca and will shape our ways of working globally for many years to come.

The Axial programme needs the best talent to work in it. Whether it’s the technical skills, business understanding or change leadership, we want to ensure we have the strongest team deployed throughout. We are aiming to deliver a world class change programme that leaves all employees with a fuller understanding of their role in the end-to-end nature of our global company. This programme will provide AZ with a competitive edge, to the benefit of our employees, customers and patients.

What you’ll do

We are looking for experienced engineering leader who can accelerate delivery of process automation, DataOps, Data as a Product culture, Data Marketplace and FinOps capabilities on AstraZeneca’s SAP Data & Analytics stack.

We want to build a world class analytics and AI stack on Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud. To do this we need to establish capabilities around data catalog, documentation automation, self-serve capabilities, High quality Data for AI, DataOps, Data Products, Analytics Products, Data & Analytics Marketplace capabilities and establish service catalog and support services for those capabilities and tracking / measuring platform health with FinOps capabilities. You will run the team that builds out those capabilities working closely with cross functional enabling teams across the AstraZenca landscape like Data governance teams, Platform owners, Enterprise Data Office, Architects and more. This means you are likely to have significant experience in cutting edge engineering frameworks, deployed at scale, experience in platform management, Data Market place and Data-as-a-Product culture. This experience might come from the SAP world, or it might come from other platforms. Your roadmap of deliverables will come from your own vision for Engineering on the platform and from product owners.

You will know you have been successful when : data services and its processes are automated; Data as product culture is established; data pipeline health and data lineage are transparent and fully automated; there are minimal data pipeline breakages; end user are able to find and shop for data products in Marketplace at ease with an enterprise grade UX for self-serve; dependent systems seamlessly receive data via products / sources; the services are catalogued and tracked with metrics & measures; services are consumptions are measurable in value for FinOps.; AI ready data quality is consistently available.

We are open minded regarding your skills, experience and knowledge, as this is a broad role. This represents a significant and transformative shift for AstraZeneca, so if the idea of driving the transformation grabs your imagination, please apply.

Essential for the role

Engineering leadership and Data Analytics platform mgmt.

Implemented Data as products and Data marketplace and governance around it.

DataOps and Data observability automation.

Data Services - Self-service capabilities, Service support for BAU.

Ability to set and drive a vision.

Stakeholder management.

Desirable for the role

Engineering at scale, especially data warehousing, visualisation and AI,

Agile delivery & Product organization principles

Experience in tools like Collibra, Immuta

Experience in FinOps

SAP analytics (Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud),

Digitising and automating analytics and data governance processes.

Why AstraZeneca?

At Astrazeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

So, what’s next?

Are you already imaging yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and hope its yours

If you’re curious to know more then we welcome your application no later than

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Date Posted

31-Jul-2025

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