Senior Principal Cloud Solutions Architect

Ready to help shape the future of healthcare?

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 organization 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 over 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 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

Job Purpose:

A Solutions Architect will be responsible for designing the end-to-end cloud based (Azure) solution architecture of the applications and data products across Manufacturing & Engineering within Global Supply Chain Data & AI organization. This includes collaborating with product managers, product owners, other solution architects, data modelers, business intelligence developers, and data engineers from different data product and cross[1]functional teams. The person will play a key role in translating product requirements into technical solution and ensuring the engineering teams are correctly implementing it.

Key responsibilities:

• Design end-to-end solutions architecture that would encompass storage & compute resources, front-end components, visualization components, virtual machines and other cloud resources as needed for the solution.
• Blueprint and design of level 3 and above solutions like MES integration to ERP and PLM to create a digital thread.
• Assessment and strategy identification for manufacturing and engineering driven products across GSK sites and factories.
• Design and execution of rapid prototyping of the product. Being a single person of contact to articulate the solutions architecture to the review board to get the solution approved for implementation.
• Ensuring the solution adheres compliance to the organization’s security and governance standards.
• Functional expertise in Industry 4.0, IT-OT integration, industrial automation, Edge and IoT. Design reference architecture and reusable components to optimize time to market the products.
• Collaboration with architecture and infrastructure platform teams to implement governance strategies and policies.
• Providing leadership, technical direction and expertise to architecture and engineering teams composed of full-time employees, strategic partners, and software vendors.
• Pro-active engagement in experimentation and innovation to drive continuous improvement.
• Driving a culture of innovation, transparency, and trust.

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Total 15+ years of experience and 10+ years of experience in designing end-to-end solutions for cloud-based (Azure) data analytics products and web applications in Agile software development with excellent verbal and written articulation skills.
• Pharma manufacturing industry experience and exposure to factory data integration.
• Experience with organizing cloud resources, applying governance policies, and enforcing compliance requirements.
• Experience working on PLC, Edge and IoT devices. Considerable experience in designing, development, testing and deployments of complex data pipelines in modern data platform using ADLS Gen2, Databricks, Spark, Python, Azure Data Factory for data ingestion, data integration and data consumption.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
• Experience on regulated systems including GxP, SoX, HIPAA & GDPR • Azure administration and DevOps for CI/CD.
• Project management experience, especially with Agile.
• Experience in / exposure to AI solutions, Agentic AI, RAG models, LLMs etc.
• Experience in recommending solutions to optimize data storage and compute costs. Experience in collaborating with platform and architecture teams for cloud infrastructure provisioning.
• Knowledge and experience of building reusable components and frameworks for data ingestion and transformation jobs.
• Ability to work with development and networking team to identify performance issues in data pipelines, reports/dashboards, and web applications.

At GSK, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment. We believe that diversity in our workforce drives innovation and growth, and we are committed to providing equal opportunities for all employees and applicants. We strive to create an atmosphere where all individual’s unique perspectives and experiences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to their sex or gender, caste, pregnancy, gender identity/expression, physical and/or mental disability, or any other protected characteristic as per applicable law.

As an employer committed to Diversity and Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

Please contact our Recruitment Team at [email protected] to discuss your needs

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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.

  
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