At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to design and build innovative digital products for GSK Research.
- Company: Join GSK, a global biopharma leader focused on health innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, flexible working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a culture that values ambition, accountability, and doing the right thing.
- Why this job: Shape the future of AI and machine learning in healthcare.
- Qualifications: Proven leadership in software engineering and team development required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
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.
- 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.
- Lead the development and execution of a framework for usability tests with users to gather direct feedback.
- Partner with heads of the Platform groups to build intuitive, simple and elegant interfaces for access to their core services.
- Provide a strong voice for modern architecture across the Onyx organization and beyond.
Why You?
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.
- Strong software engineering background with experience delivering complex applications and data products.
- World class understanding of modern software development practices.
- 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.
- Experience delivering cloud-native solutions and leveraging managed cloud services.
- Proven ability to partner effectively with Product Management teams.
- Experience leading Agile software development teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Experience managing multiple priorities and delivering outcomes within complex 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 outcomes.
- Experience integrating third-party applications with enterprise platforms.
- Experience in establishing engineering standards and best practices.
- Industry visibility through technical publications or conference speaking engagements.
- Experience attracting, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering talent.
- Experience leading global engineering teams across multiple geographies.
- Google Cloud Platform certification or comparable cloud certification.
Why GSK?
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. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
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