Staff Data Engineer and Team Lead, GSK

$190-230k

LTI plus 18% annual bonus

Python

Scala

Kafka

Azure

Spark

Storm

Snowflake

JIRA

Atlassian

Senior and Expert level

Boston

London

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

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

HealthcareArtificial IntelligenceBig dataMachine LearningCyber SecurityData IntegrationDevOpsCloud ComputingBiotechnology MedTech

Job no longer available

$190-230k

LTI plus 18% annual bonus

Python

Scala

Kafka

Azure

Spark

Storm

Snowflake

JIRA

Atlassian

Senior and Expert level

Boston

London

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2-5 days a week in office

1001+ employees

HealthcareArtificial IntelligenceBig dataMachine LearningCyber SecurityData IntegrationDevOpsCloud ComputingBiotechnology MedTech

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.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Bachelor's degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, or Software Engineering
7+ years of professional experience with Data Orchestration, Big Data, Databricks
Cloud experience - Azure, GCP (Google Cloud) OR AWS
Experience in automated testing and design
Deep knowledge and use of at least one common programming language: e.g., Python, Scala, Java
Deep experience with common big data tools (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Storm, ...)
Application experience of CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, Azure DevOps)
Experience with agile software development environments using tools like Jira and Confluence

Desirable

Master's or PhD
Familiarity with orchestrating tooling

What the job involves

Lead a team of data engineers in delivering data and knowledge products that advance GSK R&D
Architect of the data delivery and operational strategy for their team, who can deconstruct a complex and ambiguous data or knowledge request into a detailed strategy to make decision, anticipates future issues, and drive engineering efficiencies.
Partners closely with other data engineering leads to conceptualize the design of new data flows aimed at maximizing reuse and aligning with an event riven microservice enable architecture.
Partner with other Data Engineering leads to architect an engagement model and optimal ways of working with the product management teams.
Able to design innovative strategy beyond the current enterprise way of working to create a better environment for the end users, and able to construct a coordinated, stepwise plan to bring others along with the change curve.
Standard bearer for proper ways of working and engineering discipline, including the QMS framework and CI/CD best practices and proactively spearhead improvement within their engineering area.
Exemplar leaders in their field of technical knowledge, keen on bettering their understanding and acting as the knowledge holder for the organization.

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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Insights

45% female employees

6% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Company

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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