Staff NLP Data Engineer and Team Lead

Key Skills

Apache Kafka, AWS, Azure, Data Engineering, Deep Learning, DevOps, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Java Programming, Kubernetes-K8s, Leadership Skill, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python Programming, Scala Programming, SPARK Programming

Job Description

This role is responsible for building and leading a scrum team of world-class NLP data engineers focused on building automated, scalable, and sustainable pipelines to account for evolving scientific needs. They support the head of Data Engineering in building a strong culture of accountability and ownership in their team, as well as instilling best-in-class engineering practices (e.g., testing, code reviews, DevOps-forward ways of working). They work in close partnership with our Platforms teams to ensure we have the right tools and ways of working, and with our Bioinformatics teams to ensure the use of appropriate schemas, vocabularies, and ontologies.

Key responsibilities for the Staff NLP Data Engineer and Team Lead:

• Lead a team of NLP data engineers in delivering data and knowledge products that advance GSK R&D
• Architect the data delivery and operational strategy for the NLP data engineering team; Deconstruct a complex and ambiguous data or knowledge request into a detailed strategy to make decision, anticipates future issues, and drive engineering efficiencies
• Partner with AIML and knowledge graph platform team to build, test, and deploy NLP pipelines, systems and solutions
• Partner closely with other data engineering leads to conceptualize the design of new data flows aimed at maximizing reuse and aligning with an event-driven microservice enable architecture
• Partner with other data engineering leads to architect an engagement model and optimal ways of working with the product management teams
• Apply graph-based data modelling techniques for efficient organization, integration, and data retrieval to ensure system flexibility and maintainability
• Design innovative strategies beyond the current enterprise way of working to create a better environment for the end users, and able to construct a coordinated, stepwise plan to bring others along with the change curve
• Create standards for proper ways of working and engineering discipline, including the QMS framework and CI/CD best practices and proactively spearhead improvement within their engineering area
• Exemplar leader in their field of technical knowledge, keen on bettering their understanding and acting as the knowledge holder for the organization

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of Data Engineering experience
• Experience in Natural Language Processing algorithms and deep learning methods
• Experience with building end-to-end systems based on machine learning or deep learning methods
• Cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes)

Preferred Qualifications:

• If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
• Demonstratable experience overcoming high volume, high compute challenges
• Familiarity with orchestrating tooling
• Experience in automated testing and design
• Experience with DevOps-forward ways of working
• Nice to have good understanding of ontologies and semantic harmonization of data across sources
• Deep knowledge and use of at least one common programming language: e.g., Python, Scala, Java
• Deep experience with common big data tools (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Storm, …)
• Proven experience with machine learning algorithms and NLP frameworks like Pytorch, Tensorflow, Spacy, etc.
• Proven track record of working with knowledge graphs and graph databases, and in general good understanding of database concepts
• Proficiency in semantic web technologies (SPARQL, RDF, OWL) and harmonization of data
• Application experience of CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, Azure DevOps)
• Experience with agile software development environments using tools like Jira and Confluence
• Experience with Infrastructure as a Code and automation tools (i.e. Terraform)

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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class(US only).