Job Description

\xe2\x80\x93 G8 Lead Programmer

R & Shiny Developer

Technical Excellence and Innovation

We are investing in changing our technology strategy and delivery as part of Technical Excellence and Innovation (TechEx) team, which is designed to accelerate Biostatistics at GSK to industry Pre-eminence \xe2\x80\x93 that means Biostatistics should be THE BEST in the industry. TechEx mission is to enable people to deliver the required clinical data analyses with technology we enjoy using them. We do this by finding a better way of doing things,

• Centralizing and consolidating the development of cutting-edge tools
• Using the latest technology in data and analytics
• Transforming how we derive knowledge from information collected within clinical trials

TechEx Pillars are,

Innovation Enablement - To support innovation activities with skills and subject matter expertise in pursuit of solutions of our staff\xe2\x80\x99s most impactful pain points Emerging Methodologies & Tools - To demonstrate the feasibility, viability, and desirability of cutting-edge methodologies to resolve business pain points through experimentation Product Incubation - To transform and scale solutions, preparing technically performant products with a user-centric design for wider use by our staff TechEx Tools - To enable our people, and hence the business, to deliver consistent quality quickly with a centrally provided set of trusted tools Enterprise Tools - To ensure the availability and suitability of business critical, and often LTO, enterprise-level assets for use by our people Data Enablement - To enable our people, and hence the business, to work with current and new forms of data with ease and confidence, delivering quality quickly

Our workforce work as a matrix across all of the pillars in an agile way and currently we are geographically spread across Europe, India, United Kingdom and United States.



As part of GSK\xe2\x80\x99s Future Ready Program and achieving the goal of Upper Quartile Performance, we are pushing boundaries for technology solutions in clinical data analysis and reporting. To enable acceleration and achieve our department objectives we have opening for Lead - R & Shiny Developer.

Must have

• Expert R programming skills \xe2\x80\x93 experienced in working on packages tidyverse, dplyr, ggplot2, purrr, tidy, data.table etc. R Package development (including testing and documentation).
• Expert R shiny skills \xe2\x80\x93 experienced in creating enterprise shiny applications and interactive R-Markdowns and good understanding of reactivity.
• Experience of using GitHub for code development and storage.
• Knowledge and experience of Web application development tools (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), UX designing, Software testing.
• Knowledge and experience of Software Development life cycle
• Knowledge and experience of developing, validating and maintaining R packages.
• Backend and Frontend testing (eg, testthat package, Selenium/Shiny etc)
• Performance Testing
• Debugging UI using console
• Experience in deployments using Azure DevOps

Good to have

• Good understanding of Clinical Domains, creating tables, listing and figures.
• Knowledge to CDISC Standards.
• Knowledge on CICD pipelines and setting up Docker images.
• Object-oriented programming skills S3 and s4 class.

What we are looking for

• Technically lead product development with a team of R Shiny Developers adopting SAFe methodologies.
• Agile mindset in deliver product roadmap.
• Have created custom R-functions, packages or shiny application to streamline and automate the task.
• Ability and interest to quickly learn and eventually master new technology.
• Good communications skill and who proactively identify problems with requirements and communicates/collaborates with stakeholders.

What you will Learn

• Experience in building advanced Shiny apps, code modularization especially for larger audience based.
• Understanding of limitations of R and Shiny and proposing ideas on how to overcome them. Extending shiny applications with advanced functionality using CSS, JavaScript to meet users\xe2\x80\x99 requirements.
• Opportunity to work with the latest technologies, packages and APIs, where you can see how data science is used.
• Opportunity to develop yourself as an independent Shiny expert in a data science community.
• Opportunity to work on key projects with high visibility, aimed to accelerate pipeline deliveries and will revolutionize the ways of working at GSK.

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture. These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, and Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making \xe2\x80\x93 using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour, and risk
• Managing individual and team performance
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution
• Implementing change initiatives and leading change
• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline
• Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose \xe2\x80\x93 to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together \xe2\x80\x93 so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns \xe2\x80\x93 as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it\xe2\x80\x99s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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