The Principle Engineer is a critical member of any Agile Product Team. This role is accountable for leading within and across product teams for the technical solution design, implementation & continuous improvement of Pharma Tech systems in alignment with agile and DevOps principles, working closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Engineers, Release Managers and Product Director

The Principle Engineer lead is a “T-Shaped” role demonstrating both depth and breadth across key engineer competencies e.g. Cloud Hosting, Software Development, Testing, DevSecOps, CI/CD and Lifecycle Management, etc. and the ability to successfully collaborate with experts from other subject domains.

The role will have deep knowledge and experience of industry technologies, practices, and frameworks to understand business requirements for building Data Products in support of marketing and commercial objectives.

In addition, the individual must be knowledgeable in Architecture Design and Governance and to educate others. They also act as a buffer between the engineering team and product owner/manager and maintain a safe working environment for the team by helping with conflict resolution.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Works with 2-3 Scrum Teams, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive technical standard, architecture and decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Contributes and aligns solutions to the MarTech roadmap, Target Architecture working closely with Enterprise Architecture team
• Ensures that technical delivery is fully compliant with GSK Security, Quality and Regulatory standards
• Ensures use of relevant Pharma Tech / central services and collaborating with service partners in identification and delivery of service improvements
• Supports Product Owners and product teams to deliver value continuously, fostering and maintaining close links with customers and Tech organizations
• Keeps relevant technical documentation up to date in support of the lifecycle plan for audits/reviews in compliance with GSK Standards.
• Pro-actively engages in experimentation and innovation to drive relentless improvement and reducing technical debt/risk
• Provides leadership, technical direction and GSK expertise to product teams composed of GSK FTEs, strategic partners and software vendors
• Contributes to release planning and roadmaps working closely with Product Owners and Product Director
• Cross team delivery: Mastery of complex facilitation and dependency management techniques (cross team, cross department)

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in Cimputer Science
• 5+ years data product exp
• 3+ years data governance exp
• 3+ years project management skills exp

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Experience in solution design, programme and product delivery and service management
• Experience in delivering business impact through process and Tech enabled solutions
• Experience of vendor management
• Excellent relationship management, strong influencing and communication skills
• Content knowledge of respective functional area helpful (business operating models, processes & products)
• Pharma industry experience

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