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Can you work closely with business and technical teams, learn complex workflows, and contribute to rapid prototypes and production-ready capabilities?\nAs a Senior Lead, Forward Deployed Engineer, for Global Medical Affairs Digital & Tech, you will work alongside product teams, data scientists, GSK Strategic Partner engineering resources to build solutions that improve Medical Affairs solutions Data Generation, Scientific Communications, Medical Information, MSL Engagement and Insights. With support from experienced engineers and product leaders, you will contribute from discovery and rapid validation through production deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.\nThe focus is on building working, trusted software and analytics that fit real workflows and deliver measurable Medical Affairs value.\nWhy This Role Exists\nGlobal Medical Affairs needs hands-on engineers who can help connect business questions, scientific workflows, fragmented data, and scalable technology. This role combines customer collaboration, rapid engineering, production delivery, and reusable platform thinking, while providing the coaching and structure needed to grow technical depth and business understanding.\nProves value quickly - helps frame priority problems and builds PoCs, PoVs, and MVPs using real data and workflows.\nSupports production delivery - contributes to engineering validated concepts for secure, reliable, compliant, and supportable use.\nBuilds for reuse - creates components and patterns that can be adapted across therapy areas, regions, teams, and use cases.\nImproves decisions and impact - develops solutions that help Medical Affairs understand performance, identify opportunities, and act.\nWorks effectively with partners - collaborates with GSK Tech strategic partners and engineering teams to deliver well-designed solutions that can be supported in production.\nKey Responsibilities\nEmbedded Discovery, Prototyping and Value Validation\nWork with Medical Affairs teams to understand scientific and operational workflows, user needs, data constraints, and measures of value.\nContribute to priority use cases from problem framing through PoC, PoV, and MVP using short delivery cycles and direct user feedback.\nBuild prototypes with representative data and real workflows, testing feasibility, usability, data quality, and potential business value.\nDocument findings and evidence to continue, pivot, or stop recommendations led by product and technical leaders.\nProduction Engineering and Scale\nContribute to the transition from validated MVP to production, including design, engineering, integration, testing, security, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and support readiness.\nBuild reliable, maintainable solutions that follow established GSK Digital and Tech requirements for privacy, quality, compliance, performance, resilience, and user experience.\nDevelop configurable components, reusable services, data products, and patterns that support expansion across Medical Affairs teams and use cases.\nImplement product measures and production telemetry to track adoption, service performance, data quality, and opportunities for improvement.\nInvestigate defects and technical debt, escalating complex decisions and balancing delivery speed with maintainability.\nMedical Affairs Solutions\nData Generation: contribute to Data Generation products that improve visibility across evidence planning, study execution, evidence generation, data quality, analysis, and reporting.\nScientific Communications: develop Digital, AI and Tech capabilities across medical writing, publications, congress activity, content development, scientific dissemination, reach, engagement, and impact.\nMedical Information: build AI-enabled features that identify inquiry trends, knowledge gaps, response performance, content needs, and emerging scientific questions while supporting accurate and compliant operations.\nMSL Engagement: contribute to solutions that strengthen planning, engagement and measurement of scientific exchange, stakeholder engagement, field insights, content use, and follow-up.\nCross-functional impact measurement that connect data across these domains to create trusted, dashboards, analytical/insights products, and decision-support experiences.\nAI-Native Engineering\nUse approved AI coding assistants and agent-based workflows for coding, testing, review, documentation, and operational support, applying human judgement and validation throughout.\nApply GenAI, machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge retrieval, and analytics patterns under established technical guidance when appropriate to the problem.\nImplement human-in-the-loop controls, evaluation tests, and monitoring so AI-enabled capabilities remain accurate, explainable, responsible, and fit for Medical Affairs use.\nBasic Qualifications\n\n3-5 years of full-stack, data, analytics, or software engineering experience, including meaningful contributions to production applications or data products.\nExperience translating defined business or user needs into working software, prototypes, or analytical solutions in collaboration with product and technical colleagues.\nWorking proficiency in one or more modern programming languages or frameworks.\nHands-on experience in several of the following: data engineering, APIs, cloud platforms, application development, automated testing, DevSecOps, observability, or production support.\nPractical exposure to GenAI patterns such as retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, agents, evaluation, or responsible human oversight.\nAbility to work with business stakeholders and end users, ask effective questions, explain technical choices, and communicate progress and risks clearly.\nAwareness of security, privacy, quality, and compliance expectations; experience in a regulated or high-control environment is beneficial.\nPreferred Qualifications\n\nExperience contributing to data products, dashboards, analytical applications, decision-support tools, or insight-generation capabilities.\nInterest in or exposure to Medical Affairs processes across data generation, scientific communications, medical information, field medical or MSL engagement, and impact measurement.\nExperience in customer engineering, solutions engineering, product engineering, consulting, or a fast-paced delivery environment.\nExamples of reusing components or patterns to improve delivery speed, quality, or consistency across more than one solution.\nEducation\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n#AGTech\n#GSK-LI\n Skills\nComputer Programming, Data Analysis, Data Governance, Data Ingestion, Data Integration, ETL Development, Performance Tuning, 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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