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 blueprin