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.

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, Snowflake, 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.

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

• Total 3+ 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 SQL, Python and Spark

• 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

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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

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Experience in agile software development and DevOps, relevant technology platforms [e.g., Kubernetes] and frameworks [e.g. Docker] including cloud technologies & data structures (i.e. information management), data models or relational database design

• Subject matter expertise in clinical development

• R&D Tech requires Engineers with understanding of the relevant technical and scientific domains. Able to deliver continuous change to meet rapidly evolving R&D strategy and ambition.

• Experience with agile development methods, with security strategies and best practices, data integration mechanisms, architectural design tools, delivering and integrating COTS applications, areas of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Application Integration, Business Process Management and Data Quality.

• Experience in applying AI/ML, data curation, virtualization, predictive modelling, workflow, and advanced visualization techniques to enable decision support across multiple products and assets to drive results across R&D business operations.

Inclusion & Diversity at GSK:

At GSK, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment. We believe that diversity in our workforce drives innovation and growth, and we are committed to providing equal opportunities for all employees and applicants. We strive to create an atmosphere where all individual’s unique perspectives and experiences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to their sex or gender, caste, pregnancy, gender identity/expression, physical and/or mental disability, or any other protected characteristic as per applicable law.

As an employer committed to Diversity and Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

Please contact our Recruitment Team at [email protected] to discuss your needs.

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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