About Astellas
Astellas is a global life sciences company committed to turning innovative science into value for patients. We provide transformative therapies in disease areas that include oncology, ophthalmology, urology, immunology and women's health. Through our research and development programs, we are pioneering new healthcare solutions for diseases with high unmet medical need.
Responsibilities
•Define and govern standards, design principles, and operating frameworks for domain data products and self-service capabilities.
•Drive the scalable and standardized design of reusable data products (e.g., data models, APIs, digital twins, and AI-enabled solutions) through automation and reusable design patterns.
•Ensure data is prepared for self-service consumption by embedding quality, governance, and context (semantic definitions, metadata, metrics, and ontologies) into the design.
•Establish and govern data product and information architecture principles, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and enabling scalable, interoperable solutions.
•Oversee and review implementation delivered by central data engineering teams and data modelers, ensuring compliance with architecture, quality, and governance standards.
•Ensure data products and self-service capabilities are production-ready and operationalized, including lifecycle management, monitoring, and supportability.
•Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., business stakeholders, DigitalX hubs, and QA) to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure data products and self-service environments.
•Ensure the validated state of GxP data products.
•Partner with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for increased adoption, reuse, and value realization from data products and self-service capabilities.
•Provide coaching, guidance, and subject matter expertise to data and platform engineering teams to support capability development and continuous improvement.
•Ensure self-service environments, data models, and context are accessible to the business, and governed under formal change control.
•Drive continuous enhancement of the self-service environment, data models, and context by leveraging emerging digital technologies and innovation opportunities.
Requirements
•Extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale data and analytics solutions, specializing in the design and industrialization of domain-driven data products and governed self-service data ecosystems across complex environments.
•Strong experience preparing and structuring data for self-service consumption, including development of curated data layers, standardized data models, and semantic definitions to ensure consistent data interpretation.
•Strong experience in data quality and governance frameworks in regulated environments.
•Demonstrated leadership in end-to-end delivery from requirements gathering and design to deployment and production support.
•Experience working across multiple domains (e.g., manufacturing, supply chain) and translating business needs into scalable and consumable data solutions.
•Strong ability to operate in complex business environments and translate requirements into data solutions/designs/architectures.
•Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
•Ability to work independently and collaboratively across regions and time zones.
Nice to have
•Prior experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, or other highly regulated environments is highly desirable.
Conditions
•This is a permanent, full-time position.
•Permanent role based in the Global Capability Centre in Warsaw, Poland, with hybrid working and the expectation of some office presence.
•Flexibility may be required in line with business needs. Candidates must be located within a commutable distance of the office.
•Hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues at the office with the flexibility to also work from home. Hybrid work from certain locations may be permitted in accordance with Astellas' Responsible Flexibility Guidelines.
•Become part of a connected global business of like-minded life science leaders, all dedicated to improving patients' lives worldwide.
•Contribute to transformative therapies that reach patients around the world.
•Join a company at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs, with the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare.
•A culture of growth, with support for development and pursuit of professional interests.
