GSK · 20 hours ago
Director, Governance Engineering
Collegeville, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$171K/yr - $285K/yr
8+ years expGSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. They are seeking a Director of Governance Engineering to build and lead a team focused on ensuring GSK has a leading computational policy and governance capability, while collaborating with various engineering teams to enhance data governance processes.
BiotechnologyHealth CarePharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Build, lead, develop, and retain a team of world-class engineers
Build a computational policy platform that threads through every aspect of Onyx, from infrastructure and DevOps to platform systems to data assets
Provide dashboards, reporting / query tools, and policy authoring / testing tools
Serve as architect for the computational policy platform and related tools, and contribute technical expertise to partner teams across Onyx and beyond
Partner with leads of all Onyx and partner teams to architect an engagement model and optimal ways of working with the product management teams
Manage vendor relationships and contracting; delegate these duties where it is advantageous to do so
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
Serve as a technical thought leader and champion: e.g., speak at industry events, promote GSK as an attractive place to build a career and thrive as a data platform engineer, act as a key knowledge holder for the Onyx organization
Qualification
Required
PhD + 4 years, Masters + 6 years, or Bachelors + 8 years
8+ years of Cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes), including infrastructure-as-code
1+ years of experience with recruiting, managing, and developing engineers
8+ years of experience in managing high-stakes, business-critical infrastructure spanning multiple geographies and time zones
8+ years of experience with software development and operations as they relate to governance considerations, such as cloud infrastructure, data governance, etc
Preferred
Deep expertise in modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g., git/GitHub, devops tools, metrics / monitoring, …)
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
Experience with establishing software engineering ways of working and best practices for a team (whether informally or as formal SOPs etc)
Experience recruiting top engineering talent
Experience with agile planning and execution processes for software and/or infrastructure delivery
Benefits
Health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
Retirement benefits
Paid holidays
Vacation
Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
Company
GSK
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$25.51MKey Investors
CARB-X
2021-03-02Grant· $18M
2020-09-23Grant· $7.51M
1978-01-13IPO
Leadership Team
Julie Brown
CFO
Mike Elmore
SVP & Chief Information Security Officer, GSK
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