Senior Director, Cloud Enablement - China

Key Responsibilities

China Cloud Strategy and Global Alignment

• Cloud Strategy: Own the China cloud strategy and multi-year roadmap across AWS China, Alibaba Cloud China, the data center, and assigned platforms. Translate business priorities into capability plans, investment proposals, measurable outcomes, and delivery priorities.

• Global standards: Adopt Global IT architecture, security, engineering, and service management standards as the baseline. Agree justified China adaptations with relevant global owners, maintain documented decisions and exceptions, and ensure local needs inform global roadmaps.

• Portfolio decisions: Govern workload placement, migration, modernization, consolidation, and retirement decisions using business value, regulatory requirements, service availability, interoperability, resilience, and total cost of ownership.

• Executive governance: Represent China in global cloud forums and provide China IT leadership with a consolidated view of strategy, investment, delivery, service performance, cost, and risk. Resolve cross-team dependencies and escalate decisions beyond delegated authority.

• In China for Global: Partner with Global IT and Alibaba Cloud to extend proven China cloud and AI capabilities to other AstraZeneca markets. Lead business cases and compliant pilots, then scale approved solutions as reusable services and track adoption and value.

Cloud Economics and Cost Optimization

• Financial ownership: Own budget planning, forecasts, spend monitoring, and investment business cases for the cloud and assigned platform portfolio within delegated authority. Partner with Finance and Procurement to govern supplier spend and financial commitments.

• FinOps governance: Establish cost attribution, resource tagging, showback or chargeback where agreed, consumption visibility, anomaly management, and accountable cost owners. Review business demand and unit economics alongside infrastructure and AI spend.

• Resource consolidation: Maintain a clear resource and service inventory; eliminate idle and duplicate resources, rationalize accounts, environments, platforms, and licenses, improve utilization, and plan orderly retirement of redundant infrastructure.

• Solution optimization: Challenge architecture and service choices to reduce total cost through rightsizing, autoscaling, storage and database optimization, workload scheduling, appropriate commercial commitments, and efficient model, token, and GPU consumption.

• Verified savings: Use AI and automation to identify waste and improve engineering and operational efficiency. Validate net savings and productivity benefits with Finance, accounting for implementation and migration cost while maintaining agreed reliability, security, and compliance.

Cloud Architecture and Solution Capability

• Architecture authority: Own the China cloud target architecture and reference architectures across Alibaba Cloud China, AWS China, and the data center, aligned with Global IT Architecture. Define standard patterns for compute, network, data, integration, security, and AI workloads.

• Solution design: Lead the design of cloud solutions for priority business and application initiatives, translating requirements into secure, resilient, compliant, and cost-effective architectures, including migration, modernization, cloud-native, and AI-ready designs.

• Architecture review and quality: Establish design review and well-architected assessment practices covering reliability, security, performance, cost, and operability. Ensure significant designs and exceptions are reviewed, documented, and approved before implementation.

• Solution capability building: Build architecture and solution engineering capability within the team, maintain reusable blueprints and decision records, and partner with Alibaba Cloud, AWS, and implementation partners to bring proven solutions to China business needs.

Team Establishment and Leadership

• Organization and accountability: Establish the team structure, operating model, role boundaries, and decision rights across the five functions. Define clear interfaces and RACI with Global IT, application teams, China DSO, and service providers.

• Talent and performance: Recruit, develop, and retain talent; set aligned objectives, coach direct reports, manage performance, and establish development and succession plans. Build capabilities in cloud, AI, assurance, engineering, service management, and FinOps.

• Capacity and delivery discipline: Balance strategic initiatives, operational demand, and control obligations through resource planning and a shared delivery cadence. Maintain effective collaboration between platform engineering, security assurance, validation, delivery, and operations.

• Ways of working: Build a culture of ownership, evidence-based decisions, continuous learning, and service improvement. Promote reusable knowledge, peer review, and clear escalation, preserving objective assurance and validation alongside engineering delivery.

Cloud and AI Capability Development

• Platform capability: Sponsor the engineering roadmap for landing zones, connectivity, identity, shared services, cloud-native runtimes, observability, Infrastructure as Code, policy as code, and self-service provisioning across the China hybrid cloud estate.

• Enterprise AI enablement: Develop enterprise-ready MaaS, model access and serving, shared AI services, and agent runtimes with application, data, and AI teams. Govern production readiness, access controls, service levels, capacity, model lifecycle, and consumption economics.

• AI-enabled cloud: Prioritize AI use cases for solution design, infrastructure delivery, configuration verification, incident analysis, capacity planning, knowledge retrieval, and cost optimization. Measure realized productivity and service improvements against defined baselines.

• Controlled innovation: Evaluate emerging China cloud and AI technologies through business-led proofs of concept. Establish criteria for scaling or stopping pilots and ensure automated or agent-driven actions have appropriate permissions, oversight, traceability, and recovery controls.

Service Quality, Operations and Resilience

• Service accountability: Own service outcomes across Alibaba Cloud China, AWS China, the data center, and assigned platforms. Establish service levels, operational KPIs, service reviews, capacity plans, and continuous improvement priorities aligned with global practices.

• Operating partnerships: Govern the local Alibaba Cloud MSP and data center provider, and establish effective joint planning, reporting, change coordination, and escalation with the Global IT AWS operations team to meet China requirements.

• Major incidents and recovery: Provide leadership for major incidents and business communications; ensure root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, backup restoration tests, disaster recovery exercises, and closure of recurring problems against agreed recovery objectives.

• Infrastructure lifecycle: Oversee data center availability, capacity, hardware lifecycle, physical and environmental controls, and hybrid connectivity through accountable providers. Manage technical debt, obsolescence, vendor dependencies, and transition or exit plans.

Security Assurance, Validation and Compliance

• Risk and controls: Own cloud and platform risk management within the team's remit, partnering with Global Security, China DSO, Quality, and Compliance to implement applicable global policies and China requirements, including data protection, cybersecurity, MLPS, and AI governance.

• Assurance and validation: Ensure Cloud Assurance defines and evaluates control requirements, platform teams engineer controls, and Cloud Validation provides risk-based CSPM, configuration drift checks, code scanning, penetration testing, and AI red teaming. Establish traceable findings, remediation, and retest evidence.

• Regulated systems: Ensure appropriat