Site Name: Poznan Business Garden Pastelowa
Posted Date: Mar 27 2024
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 impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.
Now is an exciting time to join the QETO organisation and help drive a step change in technology strategy and delivery. The Principal Engineer R&D Digital and Tech, Technical Operations role sits across all the R&D Tech solution groups and will work directly with Product Directors and Product Teams to drive their software solutioning strategy and implementation.
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The Principal Engineering role has the accountability to work across Product Teams to help with different technical solutions which will drive a change in culture across R&D Tech. Working with the DevSecOps, Quality and UX teams you will lead the engineering guidelines and practices to be adopted across the R&D Tech Product Teams. You will have the opportunity to be the thought leader in R&D Tech and drive adoption of best practices to enable R&D Tech's Product Teams in their journey.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.
Principal Engineer - (R&D Digital and Tech, Technical Operations)
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical Thought Leadership :
- Formulate and implement a robust development strategy, across different technology stack.
- Establish a reputation as a technical thought leader for both different solution groups and third-party vendors.
- Maintain close collaboration with solution groups and vendors, ensuring alignment with emerging technologies.
- Automation Adoption :
- Lead efforts to drive the adoption of automation as practice using different tools and processes within product teams, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
- Cross-disciplinary Collaboration:
- Collaborate closely with other disciplines like GP&T, DevSecOps and Design to ensure alignment across R&D Tech
- Data Architecture and Design :
- Design and architect data solutions leveraging Azure services such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Databricks
- Develop and implement strategies for efficient data ingestion from various sources into Azure Data Lakes, Azure SQL Database, or other data storage solutions.
- Integrate and transform data using Azure Data Factory or Azure Databricks
- Monitor the performance of Azure Data Products, identifying bottlenecks and optimizing data processing and storage
- Implement and maintain data catalogs to facilitate the discovery and understanding of available datasets
- Automation Strategy:
- Develop and implement a comprehensive automation strategy for technical operations, identifying areas where automation can enhance efficiency and reliability.
- Scripting and Coding :
- Write and maintain scripts and code for automating routine operational tasks, configuration management, and deployment processes.
- Utilize scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or others as appropriate.
- Configuration Management :
- Implement and maintain configuration management tools to automate the provisioning, configuration, and deployment of infrastructure components.
- Ensure consistency and accuracy across various environments through automation.
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, testing, and deployment of software applications.
- Facilitate the seamless and rapid delivery of updates and new features.
- Monitoring and Alerting Automation:
- Implement automated monitoring solutions that trigger alerts for potential issues or deviations from predefined performance thresholds.
- Develop automated responses or remediation actions for common incidents.
- Service Management (Incident, Patch, Backup & Recovery) Automation Response:
- Integrate automation into incident response workflows to enable swift identification and resolution of system issues.
- Implement automated responses to specific types of incidents to minimize manual intervention.
- Develop and maintain automated processes for patch management to ensure timely and consistent application of security updates across IT systems.
- Schedule and coordinate automated patching activities.
- Implement automated backup solutions for data and system configurations.
- Develop and test automated disaster recovery processes to ensure data integrity and system availability.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
- Embrace Infrastructure as Code principles to automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure components using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.
- Manage and version control infrastructure configurations.
- Performance Optimization:
- Implement automation tools to analyze and optimize system performance, including resource allocation and load balancing.
- Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks through automated solutions.
- Documentation of Automated Processes:
- Maintain comprehensive documentation for all automated processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility for the IT team.
- Provide training and documentation for team members on automated workflows.
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goal:
- Computer Science or related bachelor's degree required although relevant experience is equally valued
- Development languages - like NodeJS, Java, Javascript, python
- Experience on cloud services, specially data analytics tools/services like Azure Databricks, Azure DataFactory
- Experience on varied relational and non-relational databases
- Experience on data virtualizations tool/services like Denodo, Azure Synapse etc
- Containerizations - Kubernetes or Docker
- DevSecOps knowledge
- Good command of English both spoken and written (at least B2)
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Data science (e.g. AI/ML) or data analytics & data quality/integrity
- Experience with data structures (i.e. information management), data models or relational database design
- Experience with tools like PowerBI, Graphana, Spotfire
- Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies
- Contract of employment
- Hybrid working model
- Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefit, company car or car allowance, company shares)
- Life insurance and pension plan
- Open and inclusive environment which is supportive and welcoming of all diversity strands (gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, or any other characteristic)
- Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible counterparts
- Sports cards (Multisport)
- Possibilities of development within the role and company's structure
- Personalized learning approach (mentoring, online trainings' platforms: Pluralsight, Business Skills, Harvard Manage Mentor, Skillsoft and external trainings)
- Extensive support of work life balance (flexible working solutions including working from home possibilities, health & wellbeing activities)
- Supportive community and integration events
- Modern office with creative rooms, fresh fruits everyday
- Free car and bike parking, locker rooms and showers
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Why Us?
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 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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