Job Description

At GSK, we want to supercharge our data capability to better understand our patients and accelerate our ability to discover vaccines and medicines. The Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines.

We are 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\xe2\x80\x99s scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on \xe2\x80\x9cdata mechanics\xe2\x80\x9d

• 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 DataOps Engineer II to join our growing team. The Data Ops team accelerates biomedical and scientific data product development and ensures consistent, professional-grade operations for the Data Science and Engineering organization by building templated projects (code repository plus DevOps pipelines) for various Data Science/Data Engineering architecture patterns in the challenging biomedical data space. A DataOps Engineer II knows the metrics desired for their tools and services and iterates to deliver and improve on those metrics in an agile fashion.

Achieving delivery of the right data to the right people at the right time needs design and implementation of data flows and data products which leverage internal and external data assets and tools to drive discovery and development is a key objective for the Onteam within GSK\'s Pharmaceutical R&D organisation. There are five key drivers for this approach, which are closely aligned with GSK\'s corporate priorities of Innovation, Performance and Trust:

Automation of end-to-end data flows: Faster and reliable ingestion of high throughput data in genetics, genomics and multi-omics, to extract value of investments in new technology (instrument to analysis-ready data in
12h)

Enabling governance by design of external and internal data: with engineered practical solutions for controlled use and monitoring

Innovative disease-specific and domain-expert specific data products: to enable computational scientists and their research unit collaborators to get faster to key insights leading to faster biopharmaceutical development cycles.\xe2\x80\x8b

Supporting e2e code traceability and data provenance: Increasing assurance of data integrity through automation, integration

Improving engineering efficiency: Extensible, reusable, scalable, updateable, maintainable, virtualized traceable data and code\xe2\x80\x8b would be driven by data engineering innovation and better resource utilization.

A Data Ops Engineer II is a highly technical individual contributor, building modern, cloud-native systems for standardizing and templatizing data engineering, such as:

• Deliver an ecosystem to enable end-to-end orchestration of research environments for business use cases
• Contribute to design, implementation and maintenance of reliable and scalable server-side software.
• Collaborate on the delivery of end-user applications to enable business users to be self-serve
• Implement computational governance framework to ensure appropriate data access and data use.
• Follows Agile methodologies and operates within a DevOps framework ensuring robust and high-quality software engineering processes

Responsibilities include:

• Development of microservices (FastAPI) and required applications (React) to deliver high-performing, high-impact products and services, from a loosely defined data engineering problems or requirements
• Partner across Tech where modifications to underlying tools (e.g. infrastructure as code, cloud ops, devops, logging / alerting, ...) are needed to serve new use cases, and to ensure operations are planned in advance
• Write fantastic code along with proper unit, functional, and integration tests for code and services to ensure quality.

The Onyx team is built on the principles of ownership, accountability, continuous development, and collaboration. We hire for the long term, and we\'re motivated to make this a great place to work. Our leaders will be committed to your career and development from day one.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

Bachelors degree in Computer Science with a focus in Data Engineering.

Experience with DevOps tools and concepts (e.g. Jira, GitLabs / Jenkins / CircleCI / Azure DevOps / \xe2\x80\xa6)

Experience with Infrastructure/Configuration as Code tools and techniques (e.g Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, ARM Templates

Experience with Observability tools (e.g. Grafana / Datadog / New Relic / Splunk /\xe2\x80\xa6)

Experience with common distributed data tools in a production setting (Spark, Kafka, etc)

Experience with software engineering (testing, documentation, software development lifecycle, source control

Experience in Python, Scala, Go, and/or C++

Preferred Qualification:

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

Experience with agile software development

Experience with search / indexing systems (e.g. Elasticsearch)

Experience building and designing a DevOps-first way of working

Experience building reusable components on top of the CNCF ecosystem including Kubernetes (or similar ecosystem)

Metrics-first mindset

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Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

Operating at pace and agile decision making \xe2\x80\x93 using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.

Committed to delivering high-quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.

Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.

Sustaining energy and wellbeing

Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.

Budgeting and cost consciousness

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose \xe2\x80\x93 to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together \xe2\x80\x93 so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns \xe2\x80\x93 as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it\xe2\x80\x99s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

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.

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