Principal Data Engineer

At GSK we are building a best-in-class data and prediction powered team that is ambitious for patients.

Scientific Digital and Tech’s goal is to power the discovery, development and supply of medicines and vaccines to patients. This means new tools to discover new medicines and vaccines, predictive capability for pre-clinical research, accelerated CMC and supply chain and an improved day-to-day laboratory experience for our scientists. Our Digital & Tech solutions will automate workflows and speed up decisions; freeing hands and releasing minds to focus on science. 

As R&D enters a new era of data driven science, we are building a data engineering capability to ensure we have high quality data captured with context and aligned data models, so that the data is useable and reusable for a variety of use cases. 

GSK R&D and Digital and Tech’s collective goal is to deliver business impact, including the acceleration of the discovery and development of medicines and vaccines to patients.  The R&D Digital and Tech remit has expanded over the past 2 years, and to position GSK for the future, The change will strengthen R&D Tech, to provide more strategic impact, focus, accountability, and improved decision making in the use of Digital, Data and Analytics (DDA) to strengthen the pipeline.

Job Purpose

This role contributes to the construction of the development data fabric and data strategy. This role will interact with architects, engineers, data modelers, product owners as well as other team members in Clinical Solutions and R&D. This role will actively participate in creating technical solutions, designs, implementations & participate in the relentless improvement of R&D Tech systems in alignment with agile and DevOps principles.

The Data Engineer demonstrates both depth and breadth across key data engineering competencies e.g. Software Development, Testing, DevOps, Data Science/Analytics, and cloud. Can collaborate with experts from other subject domains. Primary responsibilities include using Azure cloud services and GSK data platform tools to ingest, egress, and transform data from multiple sources.

In addition, the role will demonstrate core engineering knowledge/experience of industry technologies, practices, and frameworks such as data fabric and scaling data platforms, containerization, cloud-based platforms, data analytics, machine learning, and data streaming.  Examples of technologies include

Java/C#/Python, Denodo, GIT, Azure Devops, Data Bricks, Presto, Spark, Azure Data Factory, ADLS V2, Kafka, Selenium, JUnit/NUnit, SAFe, Kanban, Docker, AI/ML, Azure/GCP Cloud Architecture including networking principles and scaling applications. 

The Data Engineer, Clinical Solutions role is a senior technical role and will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career.  These responsibilities include the following:

• Working with other teams that are defining devops and data platform practices to meet the requirements of clinical solutions.

• Supporting engineering teams in the adoption and creation of data fabric best practices.

• Conducting PoCs of new technologies and helping to embed them in product teams

• Being part of a cutting-edge team creating the Development Data Fabric

• Ensures that technical delivery is fully compliant with GSK Security, Quality and Regulatory standards

• Ensures use of relevant R&D Tech / central services and collaborating with service partners in identification and delivery of service improvements

• Maintains best practices for engineering and architecture on our Confluence site. This requires hands on experience with cutting edge technology.

• Pro-actively engages in experimentation and innovation to drive relentless improvement

• Provides leadership, technical direction and GSK expertise to architecture and engineering teams composed of GSK FTEs, strategic partners and software vendors.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

Are you ready to work in an environment where you are continuously expected to work on projects with new technology and expected to use this technology to deliver real business value?

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

• Total 10+ years of experience and proficient with at least 3 of the below skills and can demonstrate knowledge and value with relevant experience in all the following competencies:

  • Must have experience in Spark, Python and Databricks

  • Software development, architecture design & technology platforms/frameworks

  • Data Platforms and Domain-driven design

  • Agile, DevOps & Automation [of testing, build, deployment, CI/CD, etc.]

  • Data science (e.g. AI/ML), data analytics & data quality/integrity

  • Testing strategies & frameworks

  • Role requires:

  • • Demonstrated skill in delivering high-quality engineered data products

    • Knowledge of industry standards and technology platforms aligned to GSK and R&D roadmaps

    • Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills

    • Customer focus and excellent problem-solving skills

• Computer Science or related bachelor’s degree – MS in Computer Science is preferred

• Familiarity and use of various open-source ecosystems including JavaScript, Bigdata, java, python etc.

• Good understanding of various software paradigms: domain-driven, procedural, data-driven, object-oriented, functional

• Familiar with .Net Core (C#), Java, Python

• Demonstrable knowledge depth in more than one area of software engineering and technology

Why 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, it’s 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.

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