Data Curation Developer

421498 Data Curation Developer

This role focuses on the technical experience required to curate (e.g. pre-process, harmonize, wrangle and contextualise) data to produce high-quality data assets for R&D analysis. The aim is to support GSK’s Disease Area Strategies and other key R&D priority areas by making data analysis-ready, enabling efficient and effective decision-making across various therapeutic areas.

Please note that depending on experience level, candidates may be considered at either the G6 or G7 level.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

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In this role you will

• Lead the development of business requirements for data curation through collaboration with R&D business and data platform teams.
• Maintain strong connections with analytical groups and R&D Data Platform teams to ensure seamless data integration and usage.
• Deliver pre-packaged, curated (e.g. pre-process, harmonize, wrangle, contextualise and/or anonymise) datasets aligned to business requirements for analytics, which includes documenting data specification that clearly describes the required processing steps to generate analysis-ready datasets ensuring providence, lineage and privacy requirements is maintained.
• Integrate diverse datasets (e.g., clinical trials, real-world data, omics) into a unified format for consistent analysis.
• Ensure all datasets meet analysis-ready and privacy requirements by performing necessary data curation activities (e.g. pre-process, contextualise and/or anonymise).
• Provide coaching and peer review to ensure that the team’s work reflects industry best practices for data curation activities, including data privacy and anonymization standards.
• Ensure that datasets are processed to meet conditions mentioned in the approved data re-use request (e.g., remove subjects from countries that do not allow re-use). Write clean, readable code.
• Ensure that deliverables are appropriately quality controlled, documented, and when required, can be handed over to R&D Tech team for production pipeline implementation.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills

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

• BSc/MSc/PhD (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related subject
• Proven experience of handling various modalities of scientific clinical data such as clinical trial data (including biomarkers), real world data (RWD), omics etc.
• Experience in Python, Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, Pandas, other data engineering frameworks and applying them to achieve industry standards-compliant datasets
• Proven ability to handle and process large structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets efficiently
• Strong communication skills and expertise to translate business needs into technical data requirements and processes
• Ability to quantify and provide insights to business impact and value creation from data curation activities
• Experience with at least one of the industry data standards such as CDISC(ODM: CDASH, SDTM, ADaM), HL7 FHIR, OMOP(CDM) etc.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Experience in R
• Agile mindset with the ability to deliver prototypes quickly and iterate improvements based on stakeholder feedback
• Experience with digital clinical trials protocol and Unified Study Definition Model (USDM)Experience in data modelling

Closing Date for Applications – 26th of October, 2025 (COB)

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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