Senior Platform Engineer, GSK

$145.9-197.4k

This role offers a competitive compensation package inclusive of the following: Competitive base salary, annual bonus based on company performance,

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

GraphQL

Scala

Java

Kafka

Cassandra

Jenkins

Azure

Spark

Snowflake

BigQuery

Semantic

Postman

Git

Senior and Expert level

Boston

London

San Francisco Bay Area

2-5 days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)

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

$145.9-197.4k

This role offers a competitive compensation package inclusive of the following: Competitive base salary, annual bonus based on company performance,

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

GraphQL

Scala

Java

Kafka

Cassandra

Jenkins

Azure

Spark

Snowflake

BigQuery

Semantic

Postman

Git

Senior and Expert level

Boston

London

San Francisco Bay Area

2-5 days a week in office (Cambridge, MA)

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 Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline
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)
Experience of security practices, standards, and protocols related to API development
Experience with one common programming language: e.g., Python, Scala, Java, including toolchains for documentation, testing, and operations/observability
Experience with API management platforms and tools (e.g., Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Postman)
Experience in modern software development tools/ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, devops tools, metrics / monitoring, …) designing and developing APIs
API design principles, protocols, and tools (REST, GraphQL, Swagger, etc.)

Desirable

Masters or Phd in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline
Experience with data modeling, particularly involving the use of semantic data and ontologies/taxonomies/business data
Experience architecting, building, or managing components of an ontology or/and metadata platform
Deep experience supporting industry standard big data technologies e.g., Spark, BigQuery, Cassandra, Kafka, HDFS, Snowflake
Experience with event-driven architectures and implementing event hooks/triggers in API systems. Familiarity with webhooks, message queues, and pub/sub systems. Ability to design API integrations that enable real-time data updates and notifications
Optional NLP experience (named entity recognition, text classification). Familiarity with mass tagging, document evaluation methodologies. Apply NLP techniques to API development for advanced text processing, automated document evaluations, and natural language search

What the job involves

A Senior Engineer is a leading technical contributor who can consistently take a poorly defined business or technical problem, work it to a well-defined problem/specification, and execute on it at a high level
Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable APIs that meet the requirements of internal and external stakeholders. Ensure APIs are secure, efficient, and user-friendly, following industry best practices and standards
They have a strong focus on metrics, both for the impact of their work and for its inner workings/operations
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify API requirements and provide technical guidance. Integrate APIs with systems and platforms for seamless data exchange and enhanced system functionality
They are a model for the team on best practices for software development in general (and their specialization in particular), including code quality, documentation, DevOps practices, and testing, and consistently mentor junior members of the team
Produces well-engineered software, including appropriate automated test suites, technical documentation, and operational strategy
They ensure the robustness of our services and serve as an escalation point in the operation of existing services, pipelines, and workflows
Diverse problem solver who surfaces opportunities to reuse modular code and develop microservices to drive efficiencies
Provides input into the roadmaps of teams representing upstream dependencies to help improve the overall program of work
Ensure consistent application of platform abstractions to ensure quality and consistency with respect to logging and lineage
Fully versed in coding best practices and ways of working and participates in code reviews and partnering to improve the team’s standards
Adhere to QMS framework and CI/CD best practices and helps to guide improvements to them that improve ways of working
Stay updated on emerging API technologies, trends, and best practices. Identify areas for improvement in API architecture, performance, and development. Mentor and guide junior engineers, supporting their growth

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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