Technical Architect, Cloud Native Technology Solutions

GlaxoSmithKline
Mid Sussex District
1 week ago
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Site Name:Durham Blackwell Street
Posted Date:Feb 21 2025

The Technical Architect will be part of the Market Access Engineering team delivering value continuously by collaborating with the Product Manager, Business Partner, Engineering team & Market Access business team to ensure that Application, Information and Technical Architectures align with the strategic target architecture plans and comply with all relevant Tech. You will provide leadership to link the business mission, strategy, and processes of solutions to its IT strategy with plans and ensure that the current and future needs of the Market Access Tech organization and IT will be met in an efficient, secure, sustainable, agile, innovative, cost effective and adaptable manner.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Work independently creating clear and cohesive visions for Market Access Product(s) i.e., understand current capabilities and drive future state architecture in alignment with GSK Tech Strategy.
  2. Work collaboratively with colleagues from multi-disciplinary backgrounds to set/contribute a clear and cohesive tech strategy for Market Access Tech, whilst still maintaining space to incorporate new ideas along the journey.
  3. Stay up to date on emerging technologies and propose changes to the existing capabilities to benefit GSK’s rapidly growing Market Access business unit.
  4. Responsible for leading, collaborating & overseeing autonomous cross-functional squads to define and independently engineer solutions delivering desired business strategy outcomes at pace.
  5. Drive the long-term architecture vision and strategy of the enterprise, ensuring that the organization’s architecture is well-aligned with the business strategy and objectives.
  6. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that the enterprise architecture meets the needs of the organization.
  7. Provide technical guidance and advice to the organization on IT architecture and related matters.
  8. Monitor the progress of projects to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architecture strategy.
  9. Ensure that the enterprise architecture is compliant with industry standards and best practices.
  10. Analyze and assess the impact of new technology trends and changes in the market on the enterprise architecture.
  11. Lead the development and implementation of enterprise architecture policies and procedures.
  12. Help to craft prioritized opportunity roadmaps - linked to problems to be solved and in turn business outcomes.
  13. GSK standards are adhered to with handling, processing, security & privacy of data, compliant with internal security, risk management policies and practices, external regulatory and statutory requirements e.g., GxP, Sarbanes Oxley and that Tech continuity plans are in place for all business-critical products.
  14. Build relationships both internally & externally, collaborating closely with technologists and industry experts to stay abreast of industry trends, disruptions, and best practices.
  15. Partner with Product(s) engineering team(s) to accelerate the modernizing & securing of Tech stacks aligned with GSK technology strategy and reduce cost of technology offerings.

Basic Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology, or related discipline
  2. 5+ years’ experience with Architecture and Technology Solutions, Cloud-Based Analytics, Machine Learning, and/or Big Data Solutions and Development of such solutions
  3. 4+ years’ experience Developing and Deploying Cloud Native Solutions on Azure or Google Cloud Computing (GCP)
  4. 5+ years of experience in a programming language such as Python, as well as experience Developing Solutions on Kafka, API and Streaming Platforms such as Azure Event Hub, Kafka, Confluent Connectors, etc.
  5. 2+ years of experience using any one of container technologies: Kubernetes based container technologies like Azure AKS or Google GKE.

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Experience in Market Access Processes and Products in the Pharmaceutical Industry, such as, Revenue & Contract Management Operations, Medicaid, Government Pricing, Gross to Net, Trade/Channel or Master Data Management
  2. Experience with microservices architectures, application performance tuning and monitoring, conducting cost benefit, risk analysis etc.
  3. Experience designing event driven systems leveraging message broker, event bus and streaming technologies like Azure Event Hub, Kafka, Confluent connectors, etc.
  4. Experience in implementing Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD), frameworks, and methodologies like GitLab, Junit, Blue/Green etc.
  5. Good knowledge and experience with API security standards like Oauth, SAML, 2way SSL.
  6. Experience working within a matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders
  7. Excellent relationship management, strong influencing, and communication skills.
  8. Ability to think strategically and tactically, and to provide leadership and guidance to the team will be essential.
  9. Ability to work in close partnership with other IT functions such as IT, security, compliance, infrastructure, etc. as well as partner closely with business leaders across global tech organizations to maintain the architecture in line with GSK Tech strategy.
  10. Possess strong working understanding of the concepts, standards, technology, tools, processes, procedures, hardware, software, and services in use for delivering tech solutions.

This is a Hybrid position with 2 days a week on site at the Durham, NC location.

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