Principal Engineer

Site Name: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower Posted Date: Jul 4 2022 Ready to help shape the future of healthcare? At GSK, we have already delivered unprecedented change over the past four years, improving R&D, becoming a leader in Consumer Healthcare, strengthening our leadership, and transforming our commercial execution. Now, we’re making the most significant changes we’ve made to our business in over 20 years. We’re on track to separate and create two new companies in 2022: New GSK with a leading portfolio of vaccines and specialty medicines as well as R&D based on immune system and genetics science; and a new world-leading consumer healthcare company of loved and trusted brands. With new ambition comes new purpose. For New GSK, this is to unite science, talent, and technology to get ahead of disease together – all with the clear ambition of delivering human health impact; stronger and more sustainable shareholder returns; and as a new GSK where outstanding people thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it. How we do all this is through our people and our culture. A culture that is ambitious for patients – so we deliver what matters better and faster; accountable for impact – with clear ownership of goals and support to succeed; and where we do the right thing. So, if you’re ready to improve the lives of billions, join us at this exciting moment in our journey. Join our challenge to get Ahead Together. Profile Snapshot Hands-on in Technology Worked in most of the technologies required for Data fabric (kafka, any cloud, open source programming live, java, python , spark etc.) Worked on scaling applications from KB to Peta without compromising the performance and data governance. Well informed or explore alternate technologies which we could consider beyond our data fabric eco systems. Metrics driven unbiased technology stack selection challenging the vendors and external product owners. Technology Management Maps the business requirement to the technology team Represents the technology challenges to the business and come out with optimal process changes for effective operational excellence. Worked on legacy systems, requires training with GSK tech stack. Aligned to agile principles. Technology Awareness Has certification on cloud or other data fabric technologies. Experience in developing Proof-Of-Concept with GSK data fabric technology stack Though worked on open source programming, has not deployed production ready cloud or on-premises application at scale . Potential to learn new technologies at work with not much additional technology training. Job Purpose: This role contributes within and across product teams for technical solution design, implementation, and continuous improvement of R&D Tech systems in alignment with agile and DevOps principles, working closely with the Senior Director of Site Engagement & Trial Operations, the Director of Engineering, Product Owners, Designers and other key roles within R&D Tech, Clinical solutions. The Principal Engineer is a “T-Shaped” role demonstrating both depth and breadth across key engineering competencies, e.g. Architecture, Software Development, Testing, DevOps, Data Science/Analytics, Lifecycle Management, etc. and successfully collaborate with experts from other subject domains. In addition, the role will demonstrate core engineer knowledge/experience of industry technologies, practices and frameworks, e.g. GIT, OWASP, OAUTH, Jenkins, Jira/Azure DevOps, Selenium, SAFe, JavaScript, Python, Docker, Apache Kafka, Azure/GCP, etc. The Principal Engineer will have some experience in data curation, virtualization, integrations, workflow, and data analytics visualization techniques to enable decision support across multiple products and assets to drive results in our clinical operations business. Finally, the Principal Engineer will have experience with managing people, of entry-level experience in engineering, product design and project facilitations disciplines to align resource capacity with business needs and drive the formation of a new x-functional team in support of the Site Engagement & Trial Operations Product team and their stakeholders out of the India Global Competency Centre in Bengaluru, India. About R&D Tech and Clinical Solutions: GSK R&D is led by science and is building and extending our portfolio of products at pace, and Clinical has a critical part to play in building the strategy to transform our capabilities and performance metrics to execute on a rich and diverse portfolio of clinical trials as well as maintaining GSK’s licence to operate for its extensive existing product portfolio. Clinical must work increasingly closely with internal and external partners, including regulators, medical experts and patients forums toward a high-performing and efficient interoperable platform which is critical to GSK’s success and the ClinOps team collaboration with health care facilities and end-patients. This presents a great opportunity for Tech to make a difference through investments we are making in modern platform technologies and Digital applications, across GSK. The Principal Engineering role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include the following: The continuous delivery of technology solutions from product roadmaps adopting agile and dev ops principles Ensures that technical delivery is fully compliant with GSK Security, Quality and Regulatory standards and maintains a strong collaborative relationship with Quality assurance groups Ensures use of relevant R&D Tech / Tech central services and collaborating with strategic and service partners in identification and delivery of new platforms, supporting infrastructure and service improvements Ensures the team keeps relevant technical documentation up to date in support of the lifecycle plan for audits/reviews. Proactively develops and delivers continuous improvement/simplification of Product portfolio to enhance user productivity, increase system reliability and reduce the total cost of ownership Drives experiments and innovation with a focus on supporting seamless flow of data and driving automation across the Clinical Operations process (from study design and delivery planning to study conduct and closure) through use of new tools and technologies, such as low-code development, AI/ML and Data Analytics technologies. Maintains awareness of emerging technology in the market and technical industry trends related to the product space and uses the knowledge to contribute to product strategy. Provides leadership and is responsible for the hiring, people management and development activities of its direct team (composed of Engineers, Product Designers and a Facilitator; direct management of up to 5 FTEs), all located in India GCC and supporting various areas of business and tech delivery within the Site Engagement & Trial Operations portfolio of tech solutions. Their direct reports work assignments will be co-managed by the Principal Engineer, manager of those resources and the lined-up to the delivery project / product area responsible Product Owner or Senior Designer FTE. Accountable for elevation of competency across engineers within his team. Coaches and mentors engineers at varying levels of maturity to embed innovation best practices as a core engineering competency and is accountable for their delivery. Provides leadership, technical direction and GSK expertise to technical delivery teams supporting delivery of product team roadmaps (composed of GSK FTEs, strategic partners and software vendors; indirect management of up to 20+ 3rd party resources) Contributes to release planning and roadmaps working closely with Product Owners, Senior Product Director and Enterprise Architect Collaborates with Engineering and Product Owner resources across Clinical and other solutions portfolios to ensure alignment of technical execution and scaling of technologies and delivery approach Basic Qualifications: Masters or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related bachelor’s Technical Degree (e.g. Engineering, Information Technology). Experience working in Pharma R&D or similar relevant technical and scientific domains (Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Clinical, etc) 16+ years’ minimum Level of Job-Related Experience and can demonstrate knowledge and value with relevant experience in all the following competencies: Depth and breadth across key engineer competencies e.g. Software Development, Testing, DevOps, Data Science/Analytics, Lifecycle Management, etc. Technical architecture design using APIs, Java Development Agile, DevOps & Automation [of testing, build, deployment, CI/CD, etc.] Data structures, data models or relational database design Data science (e.g. AI/ML), data analytics & data quality/integrity People management, x-functional team leadership whilst working remotely and with globally distributed teams Testing strategies & frameworks Role requires: Track record of development and delivery of flexible, scalable and supportable IT systems Experience across a broad set of technologies, demonstrating core engineer knowledge/experience of industry technologies, practices and frameworks (e.g. GIT, OWASP, OAUTH, Jenkins, Jira/Azure DevOps, Selenium, SAFe, JavaScript, Python, Docker, R, Apache Kafka, Azure/GCP, etc.) Track record (min. 3 years) in effective line management and indirect lead of 3rd party sourced resources from our strategic partners Demonstrated skill in delivering solutions that integrate commercial off-the-shelf products Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills Customer focus and excellent problem-solving skills Ability to work independently and adjust working hours to meet work schedule (partially) of stakeholders and co-workers located in the UK, EU and USA Preferred Qualifications: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: Experience in agile development and DevOps & ITIL, relevant technology platforms [e.g. Veeva Vault, Kubernetes, Equalum, Azure, Google Cloud Platform], cloud technologies & data structures (i.e. information management) and data models Trained on Audit review, Regulatory (GxP) standards & Privileged Access Management Experience with agile development methods, with security strategies and best practices, data integration mechanisms, architectural design tools, delivering and integrating COTS applications, areas of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management and Data Quality At GSK we value diversity (Gender, LGBTQ +, PwD etc.) and treat all candidates equally. 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