Senior Principle SDLC Solution Architect, DevCMO Tech

At GSK we are building a best-in-class data and prediction powered team that is ambitious for patients.

GSK R&D and Digital and Tech's collective goal is to deliver business impact, including the acceleration of the discovery and development of medicines and vaccines to patients. The R&D Digital and Tech remit has expanded over the past 2 years, and to position GSK for the future, the change will strengthen R&D Tech, to provide more strategic impact, focus, accountability, and improved decision making in the use of Digital, Data and Analytics (DDA) to strengthen the pipeline.

Job Purpose

This role contributes to the design and delivery of web applications and platforms for DevCMO Tech and R&D. You will work with architects, engineers, product owners, designers and other team members, and will actively participate in creating technical solutions, designs and implementations, and in the relentless improvement of R&D Tech systems in alignment with agile and DevOps principles.

The Senior Principal SDLC Solution Architect, DevCMO Tech demonstrates both depth and breadth across key engineering competencies, e.g. front-end and back-end software development, testing, DevOps and cloud. They can collaborate with experts from other subject domains. Primary responsibilities include building React-based applications and the services behind them, and deploying them as containers on Azure.

In addition, the role will demonstrate core engineering knowledge and experience of industry technologies, practices and frameworks such as React, micro-frontend architecture with module federation, containerization, cloud-based platforms, API design, and AI-assisted development. Examples of technologies include React, TypeScript/JavaScript, Webpack or Vite module federation, Node.js, Java/C#/Python, REST/GraphQL APIs, Docker, Azure App Service, Azure Container Registry, Git, GitHub, GitHub ,AI coding assistants, Azure DevOps, Selenium/Playwright/Cypress, Jest/JUnit/NUnit, SAFe and Kanban.

The Senior Principal SDLC Solution Architect, DevCMO Tech role is a senior technical role and will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include the following

• Designing, building and maintaining React applications and the back-end services and APIs that support them.

• Designing and implementing micro-frontend architectures using module federation, including shared dependencies, versioning, and independent deployment of remote modules.

• Containerizing applications and deploying them to Azure App Service, including image builds, container registries, configuration, scaling and monitoring.

• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub) for build, test, security scanning and deployment of containerized applications.

• Using modern AI coding assistants such as AI coding assistants Code in daily development, and helping teams adopt them effectively and responsibly.

• Defining and sharing best practices for AI-assisted development, such as prompting and context, code review of AI-generated code, testing expectations and security guardrails.

• Working with other teams that are defining DevOps and platform practices to meet the requirements of DevCMO Tech.

• Conducting PoCs of new technologies and helping to embed them in product teams.

• Ensures that technical delivery is fully compliant with GSK Security, Quality and Regulatory standards.

• Ensures use of relevant R&D Tech / central services and collaborating with service partners in identification and delivery of service improvements.

• Maintains best practices for engineering and architecture on our Confluence site. This requires hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology.

• Pro-actively engages in experimentation and innovation to drive relentless improvement.

• Provides leadership, technical direction and GSK expertise to architecture and engineering teams composed of GSK FTEs, strategic partners and software vendors.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications

Are you ready to work in an environment where you are continuously expected to work on projects with new technology and expected to use this technology to deliver real business value?

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

• Total 11+ years of experience, proficient with at least 3 of the below skills, and able to demonstrate knowledge and value with relevant experience in all the following competencies

• Experience building production React applications with TypeScript/JavaScript

• Experience with module federation and micro-frontend architecture

• Experience with containerization (Docker) and deploying containerized applications to Azure App Service

• Experience in (AI coding assistants) to build and ship software

• Back-end development and API design, using Node.js, Java, C#/.NET or Python

• Software development, architecture design & technology platforms/frameworks

• Agile, DevOps & Automation [of testing, build, deployment, CI/CD, etc.]

• Testing strategies & frameworks, including unit, integration and end-to-end testing

Role requires

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or related technical discipline.

• Experience in delivering high-quality engineered web applications

• Experience in industry standards and technology platforms aligned to GSK and R&D roadmaps

• Experience in working with open-source ecosystems including JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Python etc.

• Experience in various software paradigms: domain-driven, procedural, data-driven, object-oriented, functional.

• Experience in .Net Core (C#), Java, Python.

Preferred Qualifications

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

• MS in Computer Science is preferred

• Experience in agile software development and DevOps, relevant technology platforms [e.g., Kubernetes] and frameworks [e.g. Docker], including cloud technologies on Azure and GCP.

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