The Onyx Research Data Tech organization is GSK’s Research data ecosystem which has the capability to bring together, analyze, and power the exploration of data at scale. We partner with scientists across GSK to define and understand their challenges and develop tailored solutions that meet their needs. The goal is to ensure scientists have the right data and insights when they need it to give them a better starting point for and accelerate medical discovery. Ultimately, this helps us get ahead of disease in more predictive and powerful ways.

Onyx is a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:

• Building a next-generation, metadata- and automation-driven data experience for GSK’s scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on “data mechanics”
• Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent
• Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Sr Data Platform Engineer to join our growing team. Data Platform Engineerstake full ownership of delivering high-performing, high-impact data platform as products, and services, froma description of a problem customer Data Engineers are trying to solve all the way through tofinal delivery (and ongoing monitoring and operations). They arestandard bearers for software engineering and quality coding practices within theteam andareexpected to mentor more junior engineers; they may even coordinate the work of more junior engineers on a large project.Theydevise useful metrics ensuring their services are meeting customer demand, having animpact, anditerate to deliver and improve on those metrics in an agile fashion.

The Data Platform team builds and manages reusable components and architectures designed to make it both fast and easy to build robust, scalable, production-grade data products and services in the challenging biomedical data space.

A Sr Data Platform Engineer is a technical individual contributor, buildingmodern, cloud-native systemsfor standardizing and templatizing scientific data analysis and data engineering, such as:

• Cloud native infrastructure, CI/CD and DevOps (GCP and Azure)
• Data management and governance (data + metadata + versioning + provenance + governance)
• High dimensionality and scale scientific data processing and analysis with multi-modality scientific data
• API semantics andontology management
• Standard API architecture, implementationand operation
• Standard streaming semantics and processing
• Standard components for publishing data tofile-based, relational, and other sorts of data stores
• Metadata systems
• Tooling for QA / evaluation, * Given a well-specified data and scientific problem, implement end-to-end solutionsusing appropriate programming languages(e.g. Python,R, bash), open-source tools (e.g.Spark, Nextflow, k8s…), and cloud vendor-provided tools (e.g. gcloud cli, Azure)
• Leverage tools provided by Tech (e.g.infrastructure as code, cloudOps, DevOps, logging / alerting, …) in delivery ofsolutions
• Write proper documentation in code as well as in wikis/other documentationsystems
• Writefantastic code along withproper unit, functional, and integration tests for code and services to ensurequality
• Stayup-to-datewith developments in theopen-sourcecommunity around data engineering, data science, and similartooling

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience with 8+ years of work experience
• Proficiency with Python Programming language
• Experience with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP
• Experience with agile software development and DevOsps-forward ways of working

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Advanced Degree
• Experience building data pipelines with ETL/ELT tools and orchestration frameworks.
• Knowledge of data modeling, partitioning, and performance tuning for analytical workloads.
• Knowledge of data governance, access controls, and data quality practices.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers and collaborating with cross-functional product teams.

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• If you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $157,575 to $262,625. The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.

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., Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov