{"id":3395334,"url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-director-digital-platforms-and-integration","title":"Director- Digital Platforms and Integration","company":{"id":6649,"name":"GSK","domain":"gsk.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/gsk","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":84,"open_postings":54,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.833,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":16,"computed_at":"2026-11-02T06:13:15Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":67000,"max_usd":136000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_cell","sample_n":53},"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Knowledge Graph","optional":true},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-28T12:14:59Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-28","last_verified_at":"2026-11-02T09:59:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"About the Team:\nEnterprise Systems is the backbone of GSK’s internal operations in Digital & Tech, enabling GSK Global Functions teams such as Finance, Procurement, HR, Legal, Compliance, WREF, CGA and Corporate Secretariat to run seamlessly. This team designs and delivers cutting-edge digital platforms that power critical processes, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and scalability across the enterprise.\nEnterprise Systems Management & Business Operations delivers digital solutions that support Enterprise Systems running as a high-performing organisation. This team drives financial discipline, operational rigour and strategic alignment across the ES portfolio that safeguard GSK’s integrity and reputation globally. By joining this team, you’ll help shape systems that support thousands of employees worldwide, driving innovation and reliability in the tools that keep GSK moving forward.\nJob Purpose\nThe Director, Digital Platforms & Integration is accountable for defining, delivering and continuously evolving the foundational digital platforms, integration capabilities and information frameworks that enable GSK's future smart manufacturing, supply chain and CMC digital ecosystem.\nThe role leads the strategy, execution and operational performance of the Factory Integration Layer (FIL) as a critical enterprise capability connecting manufacturing systems, laboratory platforms, engineering applications, cloud services and business processes. The position ensures that platform and integration investments create reusable, scalable and technology-agnostic capabilities that accelerate business outcomes across sites, functions and products.\nThe Director is accountable for the Azure Local migration strategy, establishing a modern, secure and resilient hybrid foundation for digital products, analytics, AI and industrial data solutions across the manufacturing network.\nAs a key leader within the CMC Acceleration Program, the role owns delivery and integration of enterprise ontologies, knowledge-management capabilities, data pipelines and information architectures that transform fragmented data into connected, contextualized and actionable knowledge. The position enables digital thread capabilities across development, technology transfer, manufacturing, quality and supply chain operations.\nWorking with Product Leaders, Business Process Owners, Architects, Data & AI teams, Manufacturing Technology leaders and strategic partners, the Director aligns multiple transformation initiatives while ensuring solutions remain scalable, compliant, supportable and aligned to enterprise standards.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDefine and execute the strategy, roadmap and lifecycle for the Factory Integration Layer, creating a scalable digital backbone connecting manufacturing, laboratory, quality, engineering, data and enterprise platforms.\nEstablish FIL as a reusable enterprise capability through standard integration patterns, event-driven services, APIs, information models and repeatable site-onboarding approaches.\nLead Azure Local migration across relevant manufacturing and operational workloads, ensuring secure cutover, continuity, validation, resilience and sustainable product and service ownership.\nOwn Digital Platforms & Integration deliverables for the CMC Acceleration Program, translating development, technology-transfer and manufacturing priorities into integrated platform outcomes.\nLead the creation and operational adoption of enterprise ontologies, semantic models and common information definitions that connect product, process, material, equipment, recipe and manufacturing knowledge.\nLead the team in using approved AI tools to improve productivity and ways of working, role-modelling responsible use and ensuring compliance with GSK’s Responsible AI, privacy and security requirements.\nIntegrate knowledge-management capabilities across scientific, development and manufacturing domains to improve information discoverability, reuse, traceability and knowledge continuity.\nDefine platform governance, architecture guardrails, decision rights and performance measures covering adoption, reliability, throughput, latency, data quality, service effort, security and value realization.\nScan emerging platform, integration and edge capability (vendor roadmaps, new releases), pilot the most promising and bring a ranked opportunity list into the investment forums.\nOwn material delivery and operational risks, ensuring appropriate governance for cyber security, data protection, quality, validation, regulatory compliance and business continuity.\nSponsor operational readiness for major releases and migrations, integrating support models, training, documentation, deployment, monitoring, service transition and user adoption.\nShape strategic supplier contributions and resolve delivery, quality, commercial or capability issues affecting multiple platforms, products, sites or programs.\nRepresent digital platforms, integration health, dependencies, risks and investment impacts in senior product, architecture, data, cyber and transformation governance forums.\nBuild a high-performing, inclusive community of platform, integration and data professionals, strengthening engineering excellence, product ownership and continuous improvement.\nBasic qualifications:\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, Business, Life Sciences or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.\nProfessional qualifications in cloud, enterprise architecture, integration, data management, product management, agile delivery, service management or cyber security are desirable.\nTypically 15+ years of experience in enterprise technology, digital manufacturing, integration platforms, cloud technologies, data platforms or digital transformation, including leadership of complex or regulated capabilities.\nProven accountability for enterprise-scale platform strategy, roadmap, delivery, adoption and lifecycle management with material business, operational and risk impact.\nExperience leading Factory Integration Layer, industrial integration, OT/IT convergence, edge computing or comparable manufacturing-platform capabilities.\nExperience leading Azure Local, hybrid-cloud or edge-infrastructure migration, including architecture, security, validation, cutover, operational readiness and service transition.\nDemonstrated delivery of ontologies, semantic models, knowledge graphs, knowledge-management integrations, data pipelines or digital-thread capabilities.\nExperience leading multiple Product Owners, Architects, Engineers, Data specialists or delivery workstreams and establishing clear decision rights and technical guardrails.\nDemonstrated ability to resolve strategic trade-offs across value, cost, capacity, architecture, data, cyber security, compliance and business continuity.\nExperience influencing Director and VP stakeholders and representing platform delivery in investment, architecture, data, risk and transformation forums.\nStrong experience managing cross-platform dependencies, supplier contributions, complex migrations and global release sequencing.\nExperience strengthening ways of working, coaching technical talent and building sustainable platform, integration and knowledge-management capabilities.\nPreferred qualifications:\nEnterprise architecture and systems thinking, with the ability to connect business capability, information, integration, infrastructure and service views.\nExecutive communication and confidence operating in senior governance forums.\nDeep understanding of integration patterns, APIs, event streaming, industrial connectivity and contextualized data flows.\nWorking knowledge of Azure Local, hybrid infrastructure, edge computing, containers and platform engineering practices.\nKnowledge of ontologies, semantic technologies, knowledge graphs, metadata and knowledge-management principles.\nAnalytical judgement to balance value, risk, cost, complexity, urgency and operational impact.\nStrong organisation, traceability, documentation and decision-management discipline.\nAbility to lead global, cross-functional and supplier teams through ambiguity and complex dependencies.\nCommitment to user-centred, capability-led and technology-agnostic solutions.\nPassion for engineering excellence, responsible AI enablement, smart manufacturing and continuous improvement.\n Skills\nAgile Methodology, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis, Design Thinking, DevOps, Prioritization, Product Development Research, Product Roadmapping, Project Management, Return on Investment (ROI), Software Development, Strategy Deployment, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI) DesignWhy GSK?\nUniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.\nGSK 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.\nPeople 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.\nInclusion at GSK:\nAs an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.\nPlease contact our Recruitment Team at  to discuss your needs.\nImportant notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies\nGSK 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. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.\nIt has come to our attention that the names of GlaxoSmithKline or GSK or our group companies are being used in connection with bogus job advertisements or through unsolicited emails asking candidates to make some payments for recruitment opportunities and interview. Please be advised that such advertisements and emails are not connected with the GlaxoSmithKline group in any way.\nGlaxoSmithKline does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection with recruitment with any GlaxoSmithKline (or GSK) group company at any worldwide location. Even if they claim that the money is refundable.\nIf you come across unsolicited email from email addresses not ending in gsk.com or job advertisements which state that you should contact an email address that does not end in “gsk.com”, you should disregard the same and inform us by emailing , so that we can confirm to you if the job is genuine.","description_format":"text","description_chars":11853,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Media","Information Security","Oncology Therapeutics","Infectious Disease Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-28T12:14:59Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":16,"reasons":["conf:7","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-02T06:13:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-director-digital-platforms-and-integration","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-director-digital-platforms-and-integration.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-02T15:02:15Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":20815,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-03T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6649},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6649"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgsk-director-digital-platforms-and-integration"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgsk-director-digital-platforms-and-integration"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgsk-director-digital-platforms-and-integration"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/gsk-director-digital-platforms-and-integration\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgsk-director-digital-platforms-and-integration"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3395334}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"gsk.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3395334},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}