Sr. Director, Onyx Application Engineering in London

This job is with GSK, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. As Sr. Director, Onyx Application Engineering, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for designing, building, and evolving the digital products that power GSK Research. Working closely with Product, Platform, Infrastructure, DevOps, and Data teams, you will help shape the future of the Onyx ecosystem by delivering scalable, secure, and user-centered solutions that enable scientific discovery and accelerate artificial intelligence and machine learning innovation across GSK.

You will play a critical role in defining engineering strategy, advancing technical excellence, and developing a high-performing organization focused on delivering meaningful outcomes for researchers, scientists, and engineers. This is a unique opportunity to influence both the engineering roadmap and organizational culture of one of GSK's most strategic technology platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Recruit, lead, develop, and retain a high-functioning organization of engineers focused on excellence in full-stack software delivery.
• Be detail driven, and able to manage their own or team's time across several projects at the same time.
• Partner with Onyx's Infrastructure, DevOps, and Support organizations to ensure robust automation, operability, and support are core to all services from day one.
• Work with the Product team to build a comprehensive product roadmap that will evolve over time during the end-to-end lifecycle of that application.
• Ensure the Application Engineering team executes on that roadmap and provides world-class experiences to our customers.
• Lead the development and execution of a framework for usability tests with users to gather direct feedback and work with product teams to ensure feedback loop drives continuous improvement of data powered experiences.
• Partner with heads of the Platform groups to build intuitive, simple and elegant interfaces for access to their core services, creating a single-pane-of-glass view of the entire Onyx platform for our customers.
• Provide a strong voice for modern architecture across the Onyx organization and beyond.
• Represent Onyx in technical blog posts and aid in awareness of the Onyx mission and recruiting.

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Significant experience leading the development, delivery, and operation of enterprise software platforms, products, or services.
• Specialized experience building, leading, and developing high-performing engineering teams, including leadership of managers and matrixed organizations.
• Strong software engineering background with experience delivering complex applications and data products that support business, research, or scientific objectives.
• World class understanding of modern software development practices, including application architecture, testing, deployment, observability, and lifecycle management.
• Best-in-class working with frameworks such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Python, Go, Rust, or comparable technologies.
• Strong experience implementing DevOps and CI/CD practices using industry-standard development and deployment toolchains.
• Experience delivering cloud-native solutions and leveraging managed cloud services within major public cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to partner effectively with Product Management teams to define strategy, prioritize investments, and execute product roadmaps.
• Experience leading Agile software development teams and applying Agile delivery methodologies at scale.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across technical and business functions.
• Experience managing multiple priorities and delivering outcomes within complex, fast-paced environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience leading engineering organizations supporting AI/ML, scientific computing, research platforms, data science, or advanced analytics environments.
• Strong track record of delivering technology solutions that have driven measurable business, scientific, or operational outcomes.
• Experience integrating third-party applications with enterprise platforms, data products, and knowledge management systems.
• Experience in establishing engineering standards, software quality frameworks, governance processes, and best practices across large organizations.
• Industry visibility through technical publications, conference speaking engagements, open-source contributions, or participation in engineering communities.
• Experience attracting, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering talent within competitive technology markets.
• Experience leading global engineering teams across multiple geographies and cultures.
• Google Cloud Platform certification or comparable cloud certification.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.