Software Engineer
Come join us as we supercharge GSK’s data capability!
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.
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.
As a Back-end Developer you will be contributing within a product team for the technical solution design, implementation & continuous improvement of the R&D Tech systems in alignment with Agile and DevSecOps principles, working closely with a Manager of Engineering, Senior Engineer, Architect, Agile Facilitator and Product Owner or Product Director. The Engineer is a “T-Shaped” role displaying both depth and breadth across key engineer proficiencies e.g. Software Development, Testing, DevOps, Lifecycle Management, etc. and the ability to optimally collaborate with experts from other subject domains. In addition, the role will demonstrate some, but not all, of the core engineer knowledge/experience of industry technologies, practices and frameworks e.g. C#/.NET, ASP.NET Web API, Docker, Azure/GCP (e.g. Azure Databricks, Azure Datawarehouse), GIT, OWASP understanding, OAUTH, Agile Framework, Unit Testing.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for engineers with these required skills to achieve our goal:
- Minimum 2 years of commercial experience working as Back-end Developer
- Experience with C#/.NET especially ASP.NET Web API
- At least basic knowledge of unit tests and NUnit or xUnit
- Experience in Agile development and different approaches, but specifically Scrum.
- Databases – definition and manipulation (Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL, graphQL)
- RESTful API’s – consumption and creation
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Experience with ITIL
- Experience with relevant technology platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) and frameworks (e.g. Docker) including cloud technologies
- Experience with Azure services like Azure Databricks and Azure Datawarehouse
- JavaScript, like Node.js knowledge
- Python
Benefits:
- Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies
- Contract of employment
- Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefit)
- Life insurance and pension plan
- Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible
- Sports cards (Multisport)
- Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure
- Personalized learning approach (mentoring, online trainings’ platforms: Pluralsight, Business Skills, Harvard Manage Mentor, Skillsoft and external trainings)
- Extensive support of work life balance
- Supportive community and integration events
- Modern office with creative rooms, fresh fruits everyday
- Free car and bike parking, locker rooms and showers.
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