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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 Senior Technical SME and Engineer for Engineering, EHS & Sustainability provides technical leadership for a product family, technology platform, programme or group of sites. The role leads solution design, implementation, validation and troubleshooting and ensures technical outputs align with approved architecture, product strategy and engineering standards.\nThe role coordinates engineers, site teams, Architects, Product Owners, Service Managers and suppliers and acts as the technical lead for complex delivery and operational issues. The job holder reviews technical specifications, configurations and test evidence and leads root-cause analysis where operational, batch or data-integrity impact may exist.\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:\nImplement technical solution designs and configurations in accordance with approved architecture and product strategy.\nOwn technical quality for the assigned scope, including specifications, design documentation, configuration records and technical validation evidence.\nKeep EHS, engineering and sustainability system configuration under version control, peer-reviewed, and covered by repeatable tests.\nPerform troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, with timely escalation where manufacturing batches, product quality, patient supply or data integrity may be affected.\nDesign or configure interfaces, workflows, recipes, data models and environments and write or review related specifications and test scripts.\nAnalyse logs, metrics, monitoring and system behaviour to identify defects, performance issues and opportunities for improvement.\nCoach site engineers and super users and contribute to training, runbooks and knowledge articles.\nLead technical design and implementation across multiple projects, releases or sites.\nReview and approve key technical specifications, design documents, configurations, test scripts and validation evidence.\nProvide technical direction during complex incidents, releases and stabilisation and coordinate internal and supplier engineering resources.\nAssess technical risks and ensure mitigation addresses security, compliance, resilience, data integrity and supportability.\nMaintain technical standards and reusable engineering assets for the assigned product family or platform.\nSupport formal technical assurance, audits and inspections and ensure corrective actions are evidence based.\nDrive engineering lessons learned and cross-team continuous improvement.\nLead the end-to-end technical design and implementation of secure, scalable AI and generative AI solutions.\nDefine and approve AI evaluation strategies, acceptance criteria, test evidence and production-readiness decisions.\nEnsure appropriate controls for responsible AI, data privacy, cybersecurity, human oversight, traceability and regulated change.\nLead complex investigations into AI quality, retrieval, data, integration and operational issues.\nEstablish reusable AI engineering standards, reference architectures and design patterns, while coaching engineers and suppliers.\nBasic qualifications:\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Automation, Data, Life Sciences or a relevant technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\nRelevant technical, cloud, integration, automation, data, validation, cyber security or engineering certifications are desirable.\nTypically 7+ years of hands-on technical engineering experience in complex enterprise or operational technology environments (Preferably in Engineering: Plant Maintenance, Calibration, Validation; EHS: Incident&Accident Management, Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, Chemical Compliance; Sustainability: Energy Efficiency, Renewable and Clean Energy, Waste Management). \nProven experience leading technical design and implementation for a product family, platform, programme or multiple sites. \nExperience reviewing and approving specifications, design documents, configurations, test scripts and technical validation evidence. \nDemonstrated leadership of complex troubleshooting and root-cause investigations across systems, interfaces, workflows, data and infrastructure. \nExperience coordinating internal engineers, site teams, vendors and specialist partners through design, deployment and stabilisation. \nExperience assessing technical risk and ensuring security, data integrity, resilience, compliance and supportability requirements are met. \nExperience coaching engineers and translating lessons learned into reusable standards, patterns and knowledge. \nExperience supporting audits, inspections or formal technical assurance activities. \nExperience leading at least one AI or generative AI solution from design through testing, controlled release and operational support. \nExperience designing or technically assuring retrieval-augmented generation, machine-learning or intelligent automation solutions. \nExperience defining AI evaluation datasets, measurable acceptance criteria and risk-based test strategies. \nExperience integrating AI services with enterprise applications, data sources and workflow platforms. \nExperience providing technical direction to engineers, suppliers and multidisciplinary delivery 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 stakeholders.\nStrong applied knowledge of generative AI, large language models, machine learning and retrieval-augmented generation. \nAbility to architect solutions integrating AI models with enterprise data, applications, APIs and workflows. \nStrong understanding of AI evaluation, including correctness, groundedness, relevance, consistency, safety and regression testing. \nPractical knowledge of Python, SQL, REST APIs, data pipelines and source-control practices such as Git. \nStrong understanding of responsible AI, privacy, cybersecurity, prompt injection, data leakage and human-in-the-loop controls.\n Skills\nAgile Methodology, Backlogs, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Design Thinking, DevOps, Process Diagrams, Product Strategies, Project Management, Requirements Gathering, Services Management, Software Development, User Experience (UX), User Research, User StoryWhy 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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