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.

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.

Senior Engineer

In this role you will…

• The continuous delivery of technology solutions from product roadmaps adopting agile and DevOps principles.
• Ensures that technical delivery is fully compliant with GSK Security, Quality and Regulatory standards and keeps relevant technical documentation up to date in support of the lifecycle plan for audits/reviews
• Ensures use of relevant R&D central services and collaborating with service partners in identification and delivery of service improvements
• Ensures continuity of business execution i.e. operational support for relevant applications
• Proactively develops and delivers continuous improvement/simplification of Product portfolio to enhance user productivity, increase system reliability and reduce the total cost of ownership
• Provides technical direction and GSK expertise to product teams composed of GSK FTEs, strategic partners and software vendors
• Contributes to end to end release management, working closely with the Product Team members, software vendors and Business System Owners
• Responsible for quality and compliance oversight, including interpreting regulatory requirements, providing consultation, documentation reviews and approvals, independent monitoring
• Providing support during regulatory authority inspection

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

• Computer Science or related bachelor's degree required although relevant experience is equally valued
• Experience in software development, architecture design (e.g. SOA) & technology platforms/frameworks
• Experience in Agile, DevOps & Automation
• Experience in Windows or Oracle architecture
• Experience in testing strategies & frameworks
• The ability to make appropriate technical decisions, initiating action to resolve operational issues
• Embraces & fosters challenges & opportunities for innovation

Benefits:

• Career at one of the top tier global healthcare companies
• Attractive reward package (competitive salary, annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefit
• Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure
• Life insurance and pension plan
• Open and broad environment which is encouraging and welcoming of all diversity strands (gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, or any other characteristic)
• Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible counterparts
• Sports cards (Multisport)
• Personalized learning approach (mentoring, online trainings’ platforms: Pluralsight, Business Skills, Harvard Manage Mentor, Skillsoft and external trainings)
• Extensive support of work life balance (flexible working solutions including working from home possibilities, health & wellbeing activities)
• 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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