Data Science and AI Technology Lead

Data Science and AI Technology Lead

UCB - Union Chimique Belge

Brussels or Anderlecht, Belgium

About the role

You will shape the technology direction behind UCB’s advanced analytics and artificial intelligence platforms and turn it into secure, scalable capabilities that deliver real business outcomes. With a global scope across multiple domains, you will lead platform evolution end to end from roadmap and architecture to delivery, governance, and operations. Your decisions will directly influence how data scientists, analysts, and business teams consume data and artificial intelligence at scale. You will work closely with internal teams and technology partners to introduce new services, integrate tools, and continuously evolve the analytics landscape.

Who you’ll work with

You will be working in a team that operates at the intersection of data science, engineering, and business impact. You will collaborate closely with data scientists, data engineers, analytics leaders, information security, infrastructure, and technology strategy colleagues. You will also engage with external partners and vendors. In a matrix environment, you will help align priorities across domains and ensure analytics capabilities effectively support domain-driven initiatives.

What you’ll do

• Define and drive the technology roadmap for advanced analytics and artificial intelligence platforms, ensuring scalability, sustainability, and alignment with enterprise standards
• Design and deliver new platform services with technology partners, integrating multiple tools and environments to meet evolving user needs.
• Own the full platform lifecycle, including operations, upgrades, performance, and continuous improvement of global analytics platforms
• Establish and oversee platform governance and operations, including access management, configuration, and performance optimization
• Set and enforce technical standards and best practices for architecture, security, and quality; review designs and resolve complex technical challenges
• Lead platform initiatives and projects, coordinating stakeholders and vendors to deliver outcomes successfully in a global matrix organization
• Drive, review and sign-off designs related to (advanced) Analytics and AI solution architecture

Interested? For this role we’re looking for the following education, experience and skills

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in data, analytics, computer science, or a related field
• At least 8 years of experience designing and delivering advanced analytics or artificial intelligence solutions at enterprise scale
• Proven experience in a technology leadership or platform role, with clear accountability for strategy and delivery
• Data, Analytics and AI solution architecture experience
• Strong hands-on experience with analytics programming and modeling using Python and R
• Solid experience with cloud-based analytics platforms, particularly within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, Snowflake and Databricks