Principal SME Data Engineering (m/f/d)

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 Scientific Digital and Tech organization part of R&D Digital & Tech is an integrated family that powers the GSK R&D discovery, manufacture, and supply of new medicines and vaccines to patients. It focuses on optimizing CMC, informing Vaccine and Medicine design, and delivering a competitive, modern laboratory experience.

Scientific Data Engineering is a new organization responsible for enterprise data and architecture, providing thought leadership and architecture services for all aspects of data across the Scientific area. This includes the use of, and augmentation to, the two GSK data platforms on GCP and Azure, design and creation of data pipelines to surface data as a “product” in a data Mesh architecture across two platforms.

The Principal SME Data Engineer (m/f/d) contributes to the construction of the CMC data Mesh and data strategy. This role will interact with architects, engineers, data modelers, product owners as well as other team members in Scientific Tech and R&D.

The Principal SME Data Engineer is a leading technical contributor who can consistently take a poorly defined business or technical problem, work it to a well-defined data problem/specification, and execute it at a high level. They have a strong focus on metrics, both for the impact of their work and for its inner workings/operations.

They are a model for the team on best practices for software development in general (and data engineering in particular), including code quality, documentation, DevOps practices, and testing, and consistently mentor junior members of the team. They ensure the robustness of our services and serve as an escalation point in the operation of existing services, pipelines, and workflows.

The Principal SME Data Engineer should demonstrate core engineering knowledge/experience of industry technologies, practices, and frameworks such as data Mesh and scaling data platforms, containerization, cloud-based platforms, data analytics, and data streaming. Examples of technologies include Java/C#/Python, Denodo, GIT, Azure DevOps, Data Bricks, Spark, Azure Data Factory, ADLS V2, Kafka, Selenium, JUnit/NUnit, SAFe, Kanban, Docker, Azure Cloud Architecture including networking principles and scaling applications.

Primary responsibilities include the following:

• Using Azure cloud services and GSK data platform tools to ingest, egress, and transform data from multiple sources.
• Confidently optimizes the design and execution of complex solutions in data ingestion and data transformation
• Produces well-engineered software, including appropriate automated test suites, technical documentation, and operational strategy
• Provides input into the roadmaps of upstream teams (e.g., Data Platforms, DataOps, DevOps) to help improve the overall program of work
• Ensure consistent application of platform capabilities to ensure quality and consistency concerning logging and lineage
• Fully versed in coding best practices and ways of working, and participates in code reviews and partnering to improve the team’s standards
• Adhere to QMS framework, Security & Regulatory Standards, and CI/CD best practices and helps to guide improvements to them that improve ways of working
• Provide 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.
• Maintains best practices for engineering and architecture on our Confluence site.
• 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.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (with a life sciences application focus), Bioinformatics, Biomedical Science, Biomedical Engineering or Molecular Biology
• Experience in a GMP environment; both drug substance and drug product manufacturing in prescription drug setting
• Strong technical understanding of inter-disciplinary nature of drug development, contract manufacturing, analytical development, document control, technology transfer, and CMC regulatory filings
• Proficient with at least 3 of the below skills and can demonstrate knowledge and value with relevant experience in all the following competencies:
• Data Engineering development, architecture design & technology platforms/frameworks
• Hands-on experience with Azure Data Analytics services e.g. ADLS, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Purview, Azure Synapse, etc.
• Data Platforms and Domain-driven design
• Agile, DevOps & Automation [of testing, build, deployment, CI/CD, etc.]
• Data analytics & data quality/integrity
• Testing strategies & frameworks
• Role requires:
• Demonstrated skill in delivering high-quality engineered data products
• Knowledge of industry standards and technology platforms
• Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
• Customer focus and excellent problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with 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 Java, Scala, 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:

• Understanding of GMPs, GLPs and Biopharmaceutical Product Development.
• Experience in applying data curation, virtualization, workflow, and advanced visualization techniques to enable decision support across multiple products and assets to drive results across R&D business operations.
• Experience in development, manufacturing, release and shipments of drug substance and drug product, analytical method development and transfer, stability, and supply chain related activities

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:

• Operating at pace and agile 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.
• 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 and setting objectives for upskilling and continuous learning
• Building strong relationships and collaboration; honest and open conversations
• Budgeting and forecasting; cost-consciousness

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 impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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