We are hiring a competitive Senior Principal Data Engineer to join our all-star team at GSK in Bangalore.
Growing your career as a Full Time Senior Principal Data Engineer is a fantastic opportunity to develop productive skills.
If you are strong in critical thinking, cooperation and have the right initiative for the job, then apply for the position of Senior Principal Data Engineer at GSK today!

Site Name: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower
Posted Date: Apr 20 2023

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 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 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.

The Senior Principal Data Engineer is a vital technical role in the successful design and delivery of Data and Analytics (D&A;) initiatives for the GSK’s Pharmaceutical and Vaccines Supply Chains. The primary purpose of this role is to ensure that D&A; Products have an optimal solution design and that the technical development work to then deliver them into production and support is smooth and successful. This requires deep expertise in data and analytics platforms and technologies as well as domain understanding of Pharmaceutical & Vaccines manufacturing and quality processes. This also requires close collaboration with D&A; Product Managers, D&A; Development Squads and the D&A; Platform & Architecture team as well as with business stakeholders and other Digital and Tech teams.

The MSAT & Quality D&A; team currently has a portfolio of around 15 D&A; products across 4 product groups with over 100 people (GSK employees plus contractors) working in agile squads to deliver these. The Sr Principal Engineer will oversee and be accountable for the technical success of all of these products.

Key Responsibilities:

- Accountable for optimal solution designs for D&A; Products that facilitates an agile, product management approach, can be rapidly and cost-effectively delivered to meet the true business requirements and are robust, sustainable and supportable throughout their lifecycle
- Work closely with D&A; Product Mangers, using deep technical expertise and domain understanding to effectively influence (and when needed challenge) business and architectural stakeholders to arrive at the right design




- Steer solution design through D&A; Architecture Review process, aligning with enterprise platforms and architectural patterns by first intent
- Oversee technical work of development teams ensuring it is remains aligned with agreed design, is of high quality, complies with relevant standards and policies and will meet agreed business objectives
- Provide hands-on technical problem-solving expertise to address technical challenges during development and, where needed, during lifecycle support
- Act as mentor for more junior technical roles, supporting their development and promoting adoption of best practice across development teams
- Lead discovery / proof-of-concept activities to establish early technical feasibility of new Products or Product Features
- Input to, review and approve key technical documents (e.g. design spec, validation plan)
- Drive adoption by development teams of existing and future best-practice approaches from D&A; Platform team (e.g. implementation of DevOps CI/CD pipelines, automated testing)

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

- Computer Science or related Bachelor’s degree
- 16+ years of experience and track record of engineering and delivery of flexible, scalable, and supportable data and analytics applications for large complex, global organizations
- End-to-end / ‘full stack’ D&A; experience from data ingestion through transformation to user interaction (visualisation, analytics, etc.)
- Track record of designing and delivering solutions in a cloud environment using modern data architectures and engineering technologies
- Experience designing with DataOps and FinOps in mind to ensure solutions are flexible/future-proof and can scale to handle growing demand, while remaining cost effective
- Experience in Agile development
- Track record of designing and delivering solutions compliant with industry regulations and legislation
- Ability to oversee and matrix manage GSK and 3rd party technical resources
- Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
- Customer focus and excellent problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Computer Science or related Master’s degree
- Microsoft Azure accreditation and experience
- SAFe (Scaled Agile) accreditation experience
- Experience developing and delivering GxP-validated solutions for the Pharma/Vaccines industry
- Experience with specific technologies in GSK stack: Talend, Databricks/DeltaLake, Azure Synapse, Snowflake, PowerBI, Azure Functions, Azure App Services,

At GSK we value diversity (Gender, LGBTQ +, PwD etc.) and treat all candidates equally. We aim to create an inclusive workplace where all employees feel engaged, supportive of one another, and know their work makes an important contribution.

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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 positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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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Benefits of working as a Senior Principal Data Engineer in Bangalore:

● Learning opportunities
● Company offers career progression opportunities
● Attractive package

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