Principal Data Architect

Key Skills

Cloud computing, Python Programming, SQL

Job Description

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.

The Principal Data Architect should bring deep knowledge of designing and leading Big Data Architecture in a highly complex, heterogeneous environment. R&D is a highly complex and regulated environment and therefore you need to have deep knowledge of the applicable business area to be successful in this role. You must demonstrate excellent data architecture skills to define principles, standards, and patterns for building a Data Mesh/Data Fabric architecture using our Target Data Platforms.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Collaborating with Data Platform Teams, Data Engineers, and Architects to build, maintain and govern data architecture principles, standards, and guidelines.
• Define various data pipeline architecture patterns aligned with Data Mesh/Data Fabric architecture on Target platforms.
• Partner and work with Data Engineers, Data Testers, Architects, AI/ML Specialists to drive the Data and Analytics strategy.
• Building data architecture spanning different business areas and drawing links between problems to build common solutions.
• Collaborating with different business areas and stakeholders to ensure consistent implementation of Data Architecture principles/standards across Target platforms.
• Designing data architecture aligned with Enterprise-wide standards and principles to promote interoperability.
• Adopting a security-first design that embeds robust authentication, hardened infrastructure and resilient connectivity across the Data and data platform environments.
• Providing leadership to team members to help others get the job done right.
• Supporting engineering teams in the adoption and creation of data Mesh best practices.
• Maintaining best practices for data architecture on our Confluence site.
• Pro-actively engaging in experimentation and innovation to drive relentless improvement.
• Providing leadership, Subject Matter, and GSK expertise to architecture and engineering teams composed of GSK FTEs, strategic partners, and software vendors.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or similar discipline and 5+ years of pharmaceutical, healthcare or other relevant experience.
• 5+ years’ experience with data warehouse, data lake, and enterprise big data platforms
• 5+ years’ experience with enterprise cloud data architecture (preferably Azure or GCP).
• 5+ years of hands-on relational, dimensional, and/or analytic experience (using RDBMS, dimensional, NoSQL data platform technologies, and ETL and data ingestion protocols)

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Master’s Degree
• Experience with the Azure or GCP data and analytics stack: Spark, Databricks, Data Factory, SQL DW, Cosmos DB, Power BI, Dataflow, Dataproc etc.   
• Experience integrating and supporting a variety of enterprise data tools: Ataccama, Talend, Collibra, Snowflake, StreamSets, etc. 
• Experience with Agile delivery frameworks and tools: SAFe, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, etc. 
• Experience applying CI/CD principles and processes to data solutions.  
• Highly innovative mind-set and experience with analytics in a healthcare or CPG company   
• Experience using Spark and/or Databricks to solve data science and machine learning business problems. 
• Experience in applying Metadata, Data Security and Data Quality standards to build interoperable data products. 
• Experience in building domain driven contextual data products to enable decision support across multiple products and assets to drive results. 
• Ability to work in close partnership with groups across the IT organization (security, compliance, infrastructure, etc.) and business stakeholders in the commercial organizations. 
• Ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships with suppliers and specialist technology providers. 
• Superior communication skills and the ability to communicate inherently complicated technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders of all levels. 

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigor and risk.
• Managing individual and team performance.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
• Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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