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We take pride in leading a healthcare revolution. Through disruptive approaches in R&D and commercial business processes, our Data & Analytics team integrates, simplifies, and unlocks all our data. This drives innovation, decision-making, and allows us to better serve our patients, healthcare professionals, and consumers.\nThis role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:\nResponsibilities:\nBuild and maintain our data foundation: Design, build, and run scalable, production-grade data pipelines that collect, clean, transform, and deliver data. Make sound architectural choices and help set best practices for the team.\n Create data products for analytics and AI: Build reusable datasets, feature tables, and, where needed, retrieval infrastructure (such as vector databases) that support dashboards, models, and AI applications. 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Set sensible guardrails and decide when human review is needed.\nFix problems quickly and permanently: Investigate pipeline and data incidents, find the root cause, and implement lasting fixes that improve reliability.\nShare your knowledge: Set standards for code, documentation, and governance. Conduct code reviews and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.\nKeep improving: Refine frameworks, tools, and automation to reduce manual effort, and stay current with emerging data and AI engineering practices.\nPreferred Skills:\n5+ years of experience as a data engineer, including building and operating production data pipelines\nExperience supporting data scientists or analysts and translating their needs into reliable datasets\nStrong SQL (complex queries, performance tuning) and Python, including PySpark for large-scale data processing\nHands-on experience with Azure Databricks: Delta tables, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, and SQL Warehouses\nExperience supporting ML projects using Azure ML, MLflow, or Databricks (feature tables, MLOps, dataset versioning, vector search, RAG pipelines)\nExperience building LLM-based automation or AI agents, or using Databricks Genie for self-service analytics\n\nRequired skills:\nExperience designing ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestrating them with Azure Data Factory, Databricks Workflows\nExperience with Git, Azure DevOps (or GitHub) CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing for data code\nExperience implementing data quality checks, monitoring, and data cataloging or governance (for example Collibra or Unity Catalog)\nSolid understanding of data modeling (dimensional models, data warehouses, lakehouse architecture)\nExperience with Git, Azure DevOps (or GitHub) CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing for data code\nExperience implementing data quality checks and monitoring\nWorking knowledge of Power BI or similar tools for serving data to business users\n Skills\nAzure Devops, Computer Programming, Data Analysis, Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Ingestion, Data Integration, ETL Development, ETL Processing, MLflow, Performance Tuning, PySpark, Structured Query Language (SQL)Why 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. 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