GSK
Job Overview
Site Name:
Cambridge 300 Technology Square, Upper Providence Posted Date:
Dec 5 2025
The Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines. 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, metadata‑ and automation‑driven data experience, providing best‑in‑class AI/ML and data analysis environments, and aggressively engineering our data at scale.
The Governance Engineering team builds industry‑leading computational policy services aimed at ensuring governance processes (data access and use, cloud FinOps, and more) are both faithfully executed and as automated as possible. They take a risk‑based approach, ensuring governance considerations stay “out of the way” of low‑risk activities and providing simple and intuitive navigation for high‑risk activities. They ensure that governance and computational policy propagate throughout our entire Onyx ecosystem and build tools and dashboards for governance personas to aid policy authoring and testing as well as monitoring and reporting activities.
Key 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 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 the 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
Basic Qualifications
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 Qualifications
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)
Experience recruiting top engineering talent
Experience with agile planning and execution processes for software and/or infrastructure delivery
Compensation & Benefits If you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $170,775 to $284,625. The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. This position also offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share‑based long‑term incentive program. Benefits include health care, retirement, paid holidays, vacation, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave. For details see the GSK US Benefits Summary.
About GSK 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, while fostering an environment where people can thrive. We focus on respiratory, immunology and inflammation, oncology, HIV, and infectious diseases. Our culture is ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing.
EEO Statement GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
Additional Information GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK.
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Cambridge 300 Technology Square, Upper Providence Posted Date:
Dec 5 2025
The Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines. 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, metadata‑ and automation‑driven data experience, providing best‑in‑class AI/ML and data analysis environments, and aggressively engineering our data at scale.
The Governance Engineering team builds industry‑leading computational policy services aimed at ensuring governance processes (data access and use, cloud FinOps, and more) are both faithfully executed and as automated as possible. They take a risk‑based approach, ensuring governance considerations stay “out of the way” of low‑risk activities and providing simple and intuitive navigation for high‑risk activities. They ensure that governance and computational policy propagate throughout our entire Onyx ecosystem and build tools and dashboards for governance personas to aid policy authoring and testing as well as monitoring and reporting activities.
Key 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 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 the 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
Basic Qualifications
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 Qualifications
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)
Experience recruiting top engineering talent
Experience with agile planning and execution processes for software and/or infrastructure delivery
Compensation & Benefits If you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $170,775 to $284,625. The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. This position also offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share‑based long‑term incentive program. Benefits include health care, retirement, paid holidays, vacation, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave. For details see the GSK US Benefits Summary.
About GSK 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, while fostering an environment where people can thrive. We focus on respiratory, immunology and inflammation, oncology, HIV, and infectious diseases. Our culture is ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing.
EEO Statement GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
Additional Information GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK.
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