Principal Data Engineer

GSK is one of the world’s foremost pharmaceutical and healthcare companies and we are proud to be leading a healthcare revolution.

Data and Analytics are allowing us to integrate, simplify and unlock all of our data to drive innovation, decision making and enable our transformation in servicing our patients, healthcare professionals and consumers.

Key responsibilities

You will liaise with technical and business stakeholders to design and develop data-driven solutions. These solutions will encompass building data pipelines, architecting and developing data models that drive AI, ML and reporting solutions.

Role responsibilities and requirements:

Development

• Hands-on, sleeves-up design, modeling, development, and delivery are expected as a matter of course.  

• Strong working knowledge of Azure services and components, and the ability to stitch together various components towards a scalable, reliable and sustainable enterprise solution.

• Production experience delivering CI/CD pipelines across Azure and vendor products.

• Key knowledge of architectural patterns across code and infrastructure development.

• Contribute towards the design and development of the enterprise standards.

Delivery

• Ensure project goals are achieved with quality and on time in alignment with the stakeholders’ expectations.

• Ability to work on complex projects and in a distributed environment. 

• Escalate when necessary and promptly

• Work in close collaboration with other team members in the Enterprise Data & Analytics Platform team to ensure Development/Delivery aspects are well represented in the project’s requirements and deliverables. 

Methodology

• Lead with modern data design and test driven development.

• Individuals will work as part of a product-centric delivery team(s) that will deliver value independently while fully embracing integrated DevOps approaches. 

Ownership

• Take ownership of the delivery/development projects and help steer until completion.

Governance

• Maintain governance that allows projects and stakeholders to manage overall project performance and manage program risks within the global nature of some of the programs. 

Forward looking:

• Remain flexible towards technology approaches to ensure we are taking advantage of new technologies. 

• Keep abreast of industry developments in analytics and interpret how these would impact services and present new opportunities. 

Quality, Risk & Compliance:

• Ensure all risks and issues associated with owned projects are promptly recorded and managed in the appropriate Risk & Issue logs. 

• Ensure all Risks and Issues have clear action/mitigation/contingency plans defined, named action owners, and timelines for completion. 

Technical Architecture

• Be conversant with technical architecture to contribute to design discussions in partnership with the Delivery/Development Lead and dedicated Analytics & Data Architect. 

Key Technical skills and experience required.

• MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or equivalent experience, with a preference on experience and proven track record. An ideal candidate would have an impressive hands-on work history in an advanced, recognized, and innovative environment.   

• Data engineering experience and seasoned coder in the relevant languages: Python, SQL, Scala, etc.  

• Experience with the Azure data and analytics stack: Databricks, Data Factory, SQL DW, Power BI, etc.  

• Experience with visualization tools and their application: developing reports, dashboards, and KPI scorecards. 

• Familiar deploying enterprise analytics solutions at scale with applicable services: administration, qualification and user access provisioning.  

• Experience articulating the business value of analytics projects and progressing solutions from MVP to scaled-up production solutions. 

• The ideal candidate possesses excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate inherently complicated technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders of all levels.

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.

Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies

GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.

It has come to our attention that the names of GlaxoSmithKline or GSK or our group companies are being used in connection with bogus job advertisements or through unsolicited emails asking candidates to make some payments for recruitment opportunities and interview. Please be advised that such advertisements and emails are not connected with the GlaxoSmithKline group in any way.

GlaxoSmithKline does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection with recruitment with any GlaxoSmithKline (or GSK) group company at any worldwide location. Even if they claim that the money is refundable.

If you come across unsolicited email from email addresses not ending in gsk.com or job advertisements which state that you should contact an email address that does not end in “gsk.com”, you should disregard the same and inform us by emailing askus@gsk.com, so that we can confirm to you if the job is genuine.