Senior Software Engineer, GSK
Governance
£65.7-88.9k
US Salary range is $153,000 to $207,000.
2-5 days a week in office
Building a cutting-edge digital and tech team.
Job no longer available
Building a cutting-edge digital and tech team.
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£65.7-88.9k
US Salary range is $153,000 to $207,000.
2-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
At GSK, we use technology to deliver what matters most, better and faster. Whether it’s life-saving medicines or life-enhancing products, Tech at GSK helps scale and accelerate our expertise.
Role
Who you are
- PHD +2 years, Master’s +4 years or Bachelors +6 years of relevant experience
- Knowledge and use of one or more programming language: e.g., Python, Scala, Java
- Experience in utilizing any cloud-based data governance solutions, like Open Policy Agent (OPA), Strya-DAS, Immuta, Privacera, Gatekeeper, AWS Data Governance tools, Google Cloud Data Catalog/DataPlex, or Microsoft Azure Purview, to manage and govern data across various cloud environments
Desirable
- Extensive knowledge of computational data governance, data security, compliance regulations, and industry best practices
- Experience with managing authorization and authentication as code, integrating with Enterprise role-based access tools
- Demonstrated experience building reusable components on top of the CNCF ecosystem including Kubernetes (or similar ecosystem)
- Experience in modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, devops tools, metrics / monitoring, …)
- Cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes), including infrastructure-as-code
- Application experience of CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, Azure DevOps)
- Demonstrated excellence with agile software development environments using tools like Jira and Confluence
- Passionate about data-management and governance/privacy best practice
What the job involves
- 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 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 to unlock the value of our combined data assets and predictions in real-time
- A Senior Governance Engineer is a leading technical contributor who can consistently take a loosely defined business or technical requirement, architect and build it to a well-defined specification, and execute on it at a high level
- You have a strong focus on metrics, both for the impact of their work and for its inner workings / operations
- As a Senior Governance engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring our product teams produce reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure and applications
- You will collaborate closely with the platform infrastructure and data operations teams to implement security and governance products within our existing technological infrastructure
- You should be deeply familiar with the tools and processes associated with security and governance for regulated industries and able to work with stakeholders to translate those requirements to build efficient and user-friendly products
- Design and deploy scalable and reliable governance solutions using a mix of existing technologies, open-source tools, and newly identified integrations
- Build and maintain an automated policy engine that integrates with existing authorization systems, uses policy as code, is cloud-native (GCP), and integrated with the other Onyx Platforms and frameworks
- Enable governance by design and implementation of user-friendly products through the use of computational and automatable engines and integrations with existing data platforms and pipelines, metadata, and authorization systems
- Understand, amplify with Onyx and integrate requirements from security and internal regulatory teams to ensure compliance with security policies and regulations as part of the governance products
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient governance products
- Use standard agile development SDLC processes for development management, CI/CD, and automation for infrastructure provisioning and deployment processes
- Stay updated with the latest trends and best practices in security, governance, and data governance and contribute to the continuous improvement of our overall infrastructure and data platform
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering a collaborative and knowledge-sharing culture within the organisation
- Troubleshoot and resolve governance related issues and provide technical support to internal teams
Our take
GSK Tech is set to build a suite of next-generation platforms for data- and prediction-driven drug discovery in support of GSK's Research and AI/ML organizations, and an industry-leading data engineering function in support of AI/ML and Genomic Sciences.
GSK’s ambitions go far past the data lake: they’re building a comprehensive data and machine learning ecosystem that can speak to the customers in their own scientific and technical language and semantics. Enabled by GSK Knowledge Graph, powered by machine learning, and underpinned by natural language processing, GSK's vision is for accessibility to data (and, importantly, the knowledge it represents). GSK wants to increase this tenfold, taking mere moments to find, access, and integrate the right information.
The creation of GSK Tech shows GSK's commitment to making a major investment in changing how we think about data in the research space, and levelling up the data experience for GSK's researchers, scientists, computational scientists, AI/ML Engineers, and ultimately decision-makers. As of 2024, GSK is putting more energy into its Cyber Security features, thus widening its market reach.
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Company benefits
- An annual bonus based on company performance
- Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, savings programmes, time off and childcare support
- Employee recognition programmes which reward exceptional achievements
- Long term incentives through share ownership link your rewards to our longer term performance
- Coaching, mentoring and formal training programmes
- Plenty of opportunities for open conversations with people who can help to shape your career
- A range of health and wellbeing programmes and support services to help employees understand how to feel healthier, happier and more energised at work and at home
Company HQ
Brentford, UK
Leadership
Luke Miels
(CEO)Luke became CEO on Jan 1, 2026, after serving as CEO designate since Sept 2025. He joined GSK in 2017 as Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for our commercial portfolio of medicines and vaccines.
Shobie Ramakrishnan
(Chief Digital and Technology Officer)Has a broad experience in biotech and hi-tech companies. Has led Digital and Technology for GSK’s Global Commercial organisation, transforming the company’s capabilities in digital, data & analytics.
Michael Elmore
(SVP & Global Chief Information Security Officer)Experienced in building and leading tech teams across cyber security, IT infrastructure, application development, and more. A trusted advisor to VCs and startups focusing on cybersecurity advancements.
Shubha Chaudhari
(SVP, Development Digital & Tech)Previously worked at Novartis in several roles, including Head of Clinical Informatics, Global Head of Development Informatics, and Head of Digital Transformation.
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