GSK - Senior Enterprise Architect - Research Solutions

- GSK is one of the world's foremost pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, and we are proud to be part of an industry that improves the lives of others. We are embarking on a significant transformation journey that will support GSK in becoming a top-quartile data-enabled organisation.

- This is an exciting time to join GSK. Architecture is a key role in transforming R&D Tech in the modernization strategy and it is an exciting time to be part of the team. The Enterprise Architect, Research Solutions Architecture is a key role in our journey.

- As an Enterprise Architect, you will guide Product teams on technical and information architectures. You will provide leadership to link the business mission, strategy, and processes of GSK R&D research solutions to its IT strategy with plans, models and solutions that ensure the current and future needs of the research organization and IT will be met in an efficient, secure, sustainable, agile, and adaptable manner.

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

- Maintain current knowledge of GSK architecture components as well as our key cloud platforms.

- Ensure architectures defined for systems comply with standards and policies

- Work with product teams by contributing to architecture plans.

- Be an active participant in the Scrum of Scrums and key projects in solution groups.

- Ensure that architecture artefacts and decision-making reflect the GSK wide view and longer-term timeframe when appropriate.

- Align IT to the business to achieve strategies and objectives such as: improved data integration and data quality, simpler and standard architectures.

- Maximise reuse and contribute to the life-cycle of existing standards and services

- Approve architecture and standard exceptions while ensuring each is justifiable.

- Educate key IT and business stakeholders on global and local architecture, the value proposition and alignment with business and IT goals and objectives

- Work with other architects and product teams to align R&D's operations with IT by improving the IT infrastructure and optimizing business operations.

- Catalog develop, coordinate and communicate enterprise and information architecture models, representations, capabilities, components, and plans in order for R&D Tech to progress their product plans.

- Work with the engineers and product owners to ensure projects align with the strategic target architecture plans as well as help produce effectively designed solutions.

- Embrace the principle of - Loosely Coupled, Highly Cohesive design- to Catalog, Develop, Coordinate and Communicate enterprise and information architectures, representations, capabilities, components, and plans in order for R&D Tech to progress their product plans.

- We are looking for professionals and if you have these skills, we would like to speak to you.

- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or similar discipline

- 8+ years relevant pharma research experience and / or exposure to enterprise architecture in an IT organization

- Experience with the pharma research process (Discovery, Product Development and Clinical Trials Supply)

- Track record in successful architecture and design

- Track record in delivering business impact through IT enabled solutions

- Experience of Agile, DevOps and Automation (Jira, CI/CD, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, etc)

- Experience with security standards and security best practice (OWASP, OAUTH, SSO, etc)

- Proven experience with architecting solutions on Azure or GCP

- Experience with all artefacts of modelling and enterprise

- Strong influencing and communication skills

- Knowledge of research systems and platforms (IP/experiment capture, logistics, scientific tools, HPC, LIMs, SDMS, analytics)

- Experience with Rest API, .Net Core, Java

- Familiarity and use of various open source ecosystems including JavaScript, Bigdata, java, python etc

Good understanding of various software paradigms: domain-driven, procedural, data-driven, object-oriented, functional

- Demonstrable knowledge depth in more than one area of software engineering and technology

- Experience with relational, noSQL and cloud databases

- Knowledge of data integrity principles (ALCOA+ / FAIR)

Preferred Qualifications:

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

- Masters or PhD in computer science, engineering or similar discipline

- Experience with enterprise data restrictions

- Experience deploying data catalogs and master data solutions in a large enterprise

- Experience constructing a data fabric or similar architecture

- Design and architecture of BI and analytic environments

- Integration of AI and ML in business applications

- Experience with agile in large enterprises (SAFe)

- Experience with graph databases

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture. These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities, Our goal is to be one of the world's most innovative, best performing and trusted healthcare companies. We believe that we all bring something unique to GSK and when we combine our knowledge, experiences and styles together, the impact is incredible. Come join our adventure at GSK where you will be inspired to do your best work for our patients and consumers. A place where you can be you, feel good and keep growing.

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