Job Purpose:

As a Principal Cloud Data Platform and engineering Architect you will be responsible for designing the end-to-end cloud based (Azure) solution architecture of the applications and data products within Global Supply Chain Data & AI organization. This includes collaborating with product managers, product owners, other solution architects, data modelers, business intelligence developers, and data engineers from different data product and cross-functional teams. You will play a key role in architecture review and governance and develop standard data architecture patterns and best practices, optimize the Azure platform and governance for Global supply chain, including leading several automation and platform governance initiatives.

Key responsibilities:

• Design end-to-end data product architecture that would encompass storage & compute resources, front-end components, visualization components, virtual machines and other cloud resources as needed for the solution.

• Create Blueprint and reference architectures for emerging technologies in Data and AI platforms.

• Assessment and strategy for emerging technologies and fitment into the overall GSC architecture landscape

• Govern and review data product architectures against defined standards and best practices.

• Automate platform architecture process including platform provisioning automation for standard patterns.

• Collaboration with product and infrastructure platform teams to implement governance strategies and policies.

• Providing product leadership, technical direction and expertise to architecture and engineering teams composed of full-time employees, strategic partners, and software vendors.

• Driving a culture of innovation, transparency, and trust.

• Contribute to strategic roadmap for a technical domain.

• Handle highly ambiguous situations.

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with strong problem-solving skills in addition to the following skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

• Total 10 to 12 years of experience in designing end-to-end solutions for cloud-based (Azure) data analytics products and web applications in Agile software development with excellent verbal and written articulation skills.

• Experience with organizing cloud resources, applying governance policies, and enforcing compliance requirements.

• Good understanding of Azure Security Design and implementation

• Understanding of Data and AI Reference Architecture and Azure Well Architected Framework

• Considerable experience in designing, development, testing and deployments of complex data pipelines in modern data platform using ADLS Gen2, Databricks, Spark, Python, Azure Data Factory for data ingestion, data integration and data consumption.

• Azure administration and DevOps for CI/CD.

• Understanding and experience in MLOps

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Azure Data Engineer certification.

• Pharma manufacturing industry experience and exposure to factory data integration.

• Experience on regulated systems including GxP, SoX, HIPAA & GDPR

• Project management experience, especially with Agile.

• Knowledge and experience of building reusable components and frameworks  

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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