{"id":3355576,"url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-principal-labware-lims-les","title":"Principal - LabWare LIMS - LES","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":70,"ghost_share":0.014,"stale_share":0.7,"repost_share":0.057,"time_to_fill_p50_days":16,"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"}},"role":"Legal","role_family":"Legal","seniority":"lead","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":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"21 CFR Part 11","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"ITIL","optional":false},{"name":"LIMS","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-27T19:49:39Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-27","last_verified_at":"2026-11-04T23:26:02Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":8,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":8},"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 digitalplatforms 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 Principal - LabWare LIMS - LES provides technical leadership for LabWare Lab Execution System (LES) used to digitise and control QC laboratory test execution.\nThis includes new LES project work and BAU support, ensuring our digital QC solutions are reliable, compliant, and continuously improved. The role leads solution design, implementation, validation and troubleshooting and ensures technical outputs align with approved architecture, product strategy and engineering standards.\nThe role also develops engineering capability by coaching engineers and super users and converting lessons learned into reusable designs, standards, training and knowledge.\nKey Responsibilities:\nTechnical leadership - LabWare LES\nLead design, configuration and implementation of LabWare LES solutions for QC laboratories.\nTranslate QC lab processes and methods into robust LES workflows and electronic work instructions.\nDefine and maintain LES standards, templates and best practices across projects and sites\nOwn technical quality for the assigned scope, including specifications, design documentation, configuration records and technical validation evidence.\nDrive engineering lessons learned and cross-team continuous improvement.\nProvide technical oversight and guidance to Technical Engineers and vendors on LES configurations.\nProjects and enhancements\nLead the design and implementation of new LES functionality and review the configuration of Technical Engineers.\nLead integration activities with LIMS, instruments and other QC systems.\nParticipate in requirements gathering, configuration, unit testing and user acceptance testing.\nAutomation and Modernization\nUse LES automation capabilities (e.g. custom calculations, processing workflows, scheduling, scripts/macros where applicable) to streamline QC operations.\nIdentify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks and standardise workflows.\nContribute to the design and execution of LES Citrix to Azure migration (environment build, cutover planning, testing and rollout).\nPractical use of AI-assisted development, agent-based workflows and prompt templates for engineering, testing, documentation and support\nBAU support and operations\nAct as Technical SME for BAU requests (static data changes, Incidents, problems) related to LabWare LES.\nTroubleshoot complex issues, perform root cause analysis and drive permanent fixes\nDeliver small changes and corrective enhancements following change management processes.\nMonitor system performance, stability and data integrity, and propose continuous improvements\nCompliance, quality and documentation\nEnsure LES solutions comply with GxP, data integrity (ALCOA+) and regulatory expectations.\nSupport Computer System Validation (CSV) activities, including risk assessments and test evidence.\nMaintain up-to-date technical and support documentation for LES configurations and changes.\nCollaboration and ways of working\nWork closely with QC/Site users, business analysts, validation and infrastructure teams.\nShare knowledge within the team and contribute to continuous improvement of LES support processes.\nAdhere to agreed SLAs, priorities and service management practices\nKey Relationships / Customers\nBusiness and Site Stakeholders\nManufacturing, Quality, Laboratory, Supply Chain and MSAT stakeholders\nSite engineers, automation teams, super users and key users\nBusiness Process Owners and operational risk owners\nDigital & Technology Stakeholders\nProduct Managers and Product Owners\nSolution and Enterprise Architects\nEngineering, DevOps, Data and Integration teams\nService Managers, Cyber Security and Infrastructure teams\nValidation, Quality and technical assurance teams\nOther\nTechnology vendors\nSystem integrators and specialist engineering partners\nManaged service and support providers\nBasic qualifications:\nBachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Life Sciences or a relevant technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n7+ years of hands-on technical experience with LabWare LES (and preferably LabWare LIMS version 8), including configuration and scripting.\nProven track record delivering and supporting QC lab systems in a GxP / regulated environment.\nExperience in:\nLES workflow design and configuration.\nInstrument and system integration (e.g. LIMS, ERP, middleware).\nIncident, problem and change management processes.\nHands on with calculations, parsing queries to handle BAU requests\nGood understanding of QC laboratory processes and terminology.\nExperience with global / multi-site QC system deployments.\nHands-on experience in applying Automation, DevOps & AI\nKnowledge of CSV, 21 CFR Part 11, Annex 11 and data integrity principles.\nFamiliarity with ITIL or similar service management frameworks.\nExperience working with external vendors and offshore teams.\nPreferred qualifications:\nStrong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.\nAbility to translate architecture and product direction into clear technical designs and implementation activities.\nClear technical writing and disciplined maintenance of specifications, designs, test evidence and configuration records.\nUnderstanding of interfaces, workflows, data, environments, monitoring and operational support.\nAwareness of security, quality, validation, data integrity, resilience and change controls.\nAbility to collaborate across global business, site, engineering, architecture, product, service and supplier teams.\nContinuous-improvement mindset with emphasis on standardisation, reuse, automation and knowledge sharing.\nTechnical leadership and ability to challenge designs constructively.\nCoaching and knowledge-transfer capability.\nConfidence communicating technical risk and recommendations to governance and senior stakehoers.\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. 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