{"id":3323263,"url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-director-platform-architect","title":"Director, Platform Architect","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":"A","score":86,"open_postings":62,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.742,"repost_share":0.016,"time_to_fill_p50_days":16,"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"}},"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":79000,"max_usd":159000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_cell","sample_n":53},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"SLI/SLO/SLA","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-26","last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T21:35:18Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":11,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":11},"description":"Business Introduction\nGSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.\nOur diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.\nThrough continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.\nJob Purpose\nThe Platform Architecture Director owns the architecture of the Cloud & Engineering Platforms domain, setting the target architecture, reference designs and standards, leading the architecture team, and ensuring the domain is coherent, secure and aligned to enterprise architecture. The role owns the design assurance process across the Cloud, Edge and Modern Engineering Platform services and embeds AI patterns into the domain architecture for accelerated delivery and intelligent operations.\nThe role leads architects rather than producing every design. Individual platform designs sit with the Platform Architects in the team, engineering delivery sits with the Engineering Director and the platform engineering teams, platform roadmaps sit with the Platform Managers, and enterprise-level standards sit with Enterprise Architecture. Domain strategy, cost and reliability posture sit with the Head of Platform Domain.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the domain target architecture, standards and reference designs, aligned to DPTF strategy and to enterprise architecture.\nLead the architecture team across the domain, managing performance, capability development and succession.\nOwn the design assurance process for the domain, setting what must be reviewed, by whom, and against which standards.\nEmbed AI patterns into the domain architecture, so that AI-assisted delivery and intelligent operations are designed in rather than added later.\nArchitect for reliability and resilience by design across the domain, supporting the SLOs the domain commits to.\nEnsure security and compliance, including GxP where relevant, are designed into the domain rather than inspected in afterwards.\nGuide technology selection and modernisation across the domain, measuring outcomes against architecture OKRs.\nSet the architecture standards that supplier and managed-service solutions in the domain must meet.\nAlign the domain to enterprise architecture and technology strategy, negotiating exceptions through Enterprise Architecture rather than around it.\nAdvise the Head of Platform Domain on architectural risk, technical debt and the investment needed to address either.\nIncrease pattern reuse and reduce rework across the domain, evidencing both with measures rather than assertion.\nHold the boundaries with the Platform Architects on individual platform designs, the Engineering Director on build and delivery, and Enterprise Architecture on enterprise standards.\nEducation & Professional Qualifications\nDegree in a technology or engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience (e.g., Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems).\nArchitecture certifications desirable (e.g., TOGAF, or recognised cloud or network architecture certification relevant to the domain).\nArea of Specialisation\nDomain architecture leadership, covering target architecture, standards, reference designs and design assurance governance.\nArchitecture team leadership, covering capability development, design review practice and enterprise negotiation.\nExperience Required\nOverall 18 Years and typically 10-12 years in technology architecture, including at least three years leading an architecture team with line responsibility.\nProven experience leading architecture for a large-scale Cloud, Infrastructure & Engineering domain\nTrack record running design assurance governance, including holding a standard against delivery pressure.\nExperience architecting for reliability, resilience and security at scale, working to SLOs and error budgets.\nExperience in a regulated environment, ideally pharmaceutical or GxP.\nExperience setting architecture standards for supplier and managed-service delivery and enforcing them.\nPractical grasp of AI patterns for assisted delivery and intelligent operations at architecture level.\nSkills/Background\nExecutive communication, translating architectural risk into investment and consequence for non-architects.\nLeadership of technical specialists, including developing architects who are strong individually but new to influence.\nJudgement about when the domain should diverge from enterprise standards and how to get that agreed properly.\nAbility to hold a standard when delivery timelines argue against it, without becoming an obstacle.\nCommercial awareness when directing supplier and vendor architecture decisions.\nComfort making the cost of technical debt visible to leadership rather than absorbing it quietly.\n Skills\nAPI Management, Automation Technology, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Stack, Cloud Application Architecture, Cloud Architectures, Cloud Financial Operations, Cloud Platform Architecture, Containerization, Database Management, Design Assurance, DevOps, Disaster Recovery (DR), Edge Computing, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Networking Concepts, Performance Optimizations, Serverless Computing, System Monitors, VirtualizationWhy 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. 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