Job Description

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. GSK is one of the worlds foremost pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, and we are proud to be part of an industry that improves the lives of others. We embark on a significant transformation journey to support GSK in becoming a top-quartile data-enabled organization.GSK is a place where outstanding people do amazing things. As a science-led global healthcare company, we exist to help people do more, feel better, live longer. Our goal is to be one of the most innovative, best performing, and trusted healthcare companies.Are you passionate about the future of Cloud, building scalable data platform solution, data management, including Generative AI (GenAI), and its transformative potential? Are you an innovative thinker who excels in a fast-paced environment, building large scale global data platforms (10+ TB), architecture strategies and supporting over 900+ data pipelines? Do you have a deep technical understanding of Data platforms, Data Lakehouses and Data Engineering capabilities. If so, we invite you to join our exceptional team as an Associate Director - Data Engineering and Operations, Commercial Technology.Job PurposeWe are actively seeking an accomplished leader of Cloud data platforms to assume the role of Associate Director - Data Engineering and Operations, with a focus on the Commercial Global Data Platforms and Analytics.As the Associate Director - Data Engineering and Operations Leader in GSK, your role will directly impact the achievement of Commercial Pharma and Pharma Tech objectives. This role will directly report to Sr. Director - Engineering & Analytics, Analytics & Technology organization.As an engineering and operations leader, you will help the Commercial Digital and Tech and Digital Fuel organizations to embrace and adopt modern ways of data engineering, data management, ingestion and serving out analytics in support Data Reporting, Analytics and Science. People management and superior technical and engineering skills are essential to the success of the role. The Successful candidate with support the management of a diverse team of Data Engineers and Data Analysts within the GCC.Management & Leadership

• Ensure the operations and engineering teams are staffed appropriately for development and support of global teams and projects.
• Mentor and develop team members, providing guidance and support in their career growth.

• Provide expertise in optimizing operations and engineering functions by ensuring platform availability, implementing effective process and platform design, improving platform and cloud cost management and meeting SLAs that align to market needs.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Data Science counterparts and support GENAI/ML data products by providing scalable cognitive AI platforms, ML Ops services and data platforms.

Data Operations - Delivery Management

• Create and maintain SOPs and Smart Controls for business/IT processes related to operations and engineering activities.
• Managing release cycles for data/platform enhancements of commercial data processes.
• Lead integrations between components for internal and external systems.
• Focus and drive efficiencies and automation to enhance business processes designed to improve operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
• Manage service levels and provide support for end-to-end cloud native data platform/data lakehouse solutions for the organization.

Data Engineering - Delivery Management

• Partner with Data Science teams and support GENAI/ML data products by providing scalable cognitive AI platforms, ML Ops services and data platforms.
• Ensure data models not only optimize technical performance but also meet business reporting and analytics needs.
• Manage and lead the engineering team in design and build of cloud native data platform/data lakehouse solutions.
• Lead the continuous improvement in of ETL/ELT processes to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into Azure data repositories for efficiency, cost management and scale.
• Implement data security and compliance measures to protect sensitive information and ensure regulatory requirements are met.

Data Stewardship

• Identify and mitigate any data integrity risks through rigorous enforcing of the data quality and governance.
• Monitor defined business rules for data sets throughout their lifecycle and address operational issues related to data quality, across various source systems and vendors.
• Pipeline maintenance and performance tuning.
• Oversee platform access and administration functions.

Why you?Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science with overall experience is 15+ years of experience is 5+ years of professional experience in Azure Cloud Solution Architecture, Data Engineering, and data architecture.
• Experience leading Cloud operations/Platform, data engineering and data management teams.
• Experience in design and build of technical solutions for cloud-centric service, hosting solutions based on industry standards using IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS capabilities.
• Experience with E2E architecture of unified data platform covering all the aspect of data lifecycle starting from Data Ingestion, Transformation, Serve and consumption.
• Experience in Databricks workspaces, Databricks notebooks, Job clusters, Delta Lake, Databricks Lakehouse and Unity catalog.
• Experience with the Azure Services and Data components: Container based solutions, Microservices, Streaming Solutions, Python & Spark Compute, Spark SQL, Azure Integration services, and ingestion tools such as ADF, Snowflake, ADL, and GenAI Cognitive capabilities.
• Proven background on implanting DevOps and MLOps pipelines
• Expertise in Cloud Cost management and implementing best practices.
• Hands-on experience in full life cycle of software development or methodology using AgileScrum/Kanban etc; requirements analysis, design, development testing and implementation.
• Strong experience in problem-solving with excellent verbal and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Masters degree in computer science, Data Science or relevant field is preferred.
• Architecture Strategy and Complex / End-to-End full stack solution development
• Azure Cloud / Data Bricks Certification
• Pharmaceutical or Healthcare experience

At GSK we value diversity (Gender, LGBTQ +, PwD etc.) and treat all candidates equally. We aim to create an inclusive workplace where all employees feel engaged, supportive of one another, and know their work makes an important contribution.#LI-GSKWhy GSK?Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, its also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.Important notice to Employment businesses/ AgenciesGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.It has come to our attention that the names of GlaxoSmithKline or GSK or our group companies are being used in connection with bogus job advertisements or through unsolicited emails asking candidates to make some payments for recruitment opportunities and interview. Please be advised that such advertisements and emails are not connected with the GlaxoSmithKline group in any way.GlaxoSmithKline does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection with recruitment with any GlaxoSmithKline (or GSK) group company at any worldwide location. Even if they claim that the money is refundable.If you come across unsolicited email from email addresses not ending in gsk.com or job advertisements which state that you should contact an email address that does not end in gsk.com, you should disregard the same and inform us by emailing askus@gsk.com, so that we can confirm to you if the job is genuine.

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