Job Description

GSK is one of the world\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

This is an exciting time to join GSK. We are embracing new data technologies to improve the development, manufacture, and distribution of GSK\xe2\x80\x99s vital products to patients and consumers worldwide. You will be part of a team building a robust data and analytics ecosystem, allowing GSK to drive higher value by placing data at the core of its strategic and operational decisions.

Job Purpose

We are looking for an experienced professional, who will work closely with Product Directors, Product Owners, Enterprise Architects and Engineering teams to build data products and technical solutions. This role is responsible for leading data engineering teams to drive execution of data engineering projects. As a senior member in R&D Operations, he/she will stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies in data engineering, data mesh, generative AI and AI/ML and apply them to GSK\xe2\x80\x99s data initiatives.

The Principal Engineer, R&D Operations role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

Data & Solution Architecture \xe2\x80\x93 Ability to work closely with a team of highly technical engineers and define data architecture / technology strategy that align with business goals ensuring data availability & data accuracy. Ensuring data quality by implementing and enforcing data governance policies and best practices

Data Products & Platform Support \xe2\x80\x93 Ability to provide technical support to Data & Platform Support running production.

Technology evaluation & selection \xe2\x80\x93 Execute Proof of concept and Proof of value for various technology solutions and frameworks

Continuous Learning - Staying up to date with emerging technologies and trends in data engineering, and making recommendations for their adoption wherever appropriate

Collaboration & communication \xe2\x80\x93 Collaborate and work closely with stakeholder and business and technical teams to effectively communicate architecture strategy & clearly articulate the business value

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

BS or MS in engineering, sciences, or equivalent relevant experience required.

8-14 years of experience in building/managing/administrating cloud-based data and analytics applications is required.

Designing solution architecture and present the architecture in architecture review forums.

Hands-on experience with data engineering tools such as Pyspark / python using Databricks.

Strong experience on Azure PaaS services like Azure Data Factory, Azure SQl, Synapse, Event hub, etc.

Strong experience in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), automated testing, data lakes, data warehouses.

Basic understanding of data mesh concepts and principles

Stakeholder Management & Communication Skills while working with various highly technical team across GSK.

Strong creativity, problem solving, customer focus, collaboration, attention to detail and presentation skills.

Ability to oversee and matrix manage GSK and 3rd party technical resources.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Understanding of IT architecture / technology trends and high-level concepts.

Basic knowledge of building analytics applications using Power BI/Spotfire/Tableau

Experience in Snowflake, AI/ML.

Experience of Pharmaceuticals processes and systems

Experience in or strong awareness of Agile

Understanding of / experience in process design and systems design

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, 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, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox. Managing individual performance. Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritisation, execution, delivering performance. Setting strategic direction and leading on-going organisational transformation. Building a resilient organisation. Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organisation and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit. Managing P&L and capital allocation.

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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