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 Associate Director 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 Copilot, Claude Code, Azure DevOps, Selenium/Playwright/Cypress, Jest/JUnit/NUnit, SAFe and Kanban.
The Associate Director 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:
• Lead, coach and develop a team of software engineers, setting clear objectives, managing performance, supporting career development and building an inclusive, accountable engineering culture.
• Provide technical direction for the design, development and maintenance of React applications, back-end services and APIs, including micro-frontend architectures using module federation.
• Oversee the delivery of secure, reliable and scalable applications using Docker, Azure services, automated testing, observability, and continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards covering architecture, code quality, testing, security, DevOps and the responsible use of AI coding assistants.
• Manage engineering capacity, delivery priorities, technical risks and dependencies across GSK employees, strategic partners, service providers and software vendors.
• Promote experimentation and continuous improvement by evaluating new technologies, conducting proofs of concept and embedding effective practices across DevCMO Tech product teams.
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:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 11+ years of software engineering experience, including experience delivering production-quality web applications and end-to-end technical solutions.
• Experience leading, managing and developing software engineers, including objective setting, performance management, coaching, work allocation and capability development.
• Experience in building applications using React and TypeScript or JavaScript, with experience in back-end development and API design using Node.js, Java, C#/.NET or Python.
• Experience delivering cloud-based applications using micro-frontend architecture, Docker, Azure services, continuous integration and continuous delivery, automated testing, and DevOps practices.
• Experience setting technical direction, establishing engineering standards, influencing senior stakeholders, and managing delivery across internal teams, strategic partners and software vendors.
Preferred Qualifications: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience using AI coding assistants, such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or comparable tools, and establishing controls for the secure and responsible review of AI-generated code.
• Experience with web accessibility, performance optimisation, design systems, authentication and authorisation technologies such as OAuth, OpenID Connect or Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience with application monitoring and observability using technologies such as Azure Monitor or Application Insights.
• Knowledge of clinical development or another relevant R&D scientific domain.
• Experience applying artificial intelligence, machine learning, data curation, workflow automation or advanced visualisation to support R&D decision-making.
At GSK we value diversity (Gender, LGBTQ +, PwD etc.) and treat all candidates equally. We aim to create an inclusive workplace where all employees feel engaged, supportive of one another, and know their work makes an important contribution. #LI-GSK
Skills Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Business Intelligence (BI), Cloud Computing, Data Analysis, Database Design, Data Modeling, Data Privacy, Data Quality Assessments, Data Security, Data Virtualization, Data Warehousing (DW), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Machine Learning (ML), Metadata Management, Python (Programming Language)
Why GSK? Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
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