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The role applies to technical judgment across data engineering, GenAI, and agent engineering, with accountability for production reliability, observability, trusted data access, prompt effectiveness, and responsible operation in a regulated environment.\nThe role owns complex components of the data and AI landscape end-to-end, makes day-to-day technical decisions with limited oversight, and helps shape practical engineering direction. It partners with business, product, platform, architecture, security, governance, and engineering teams to translate ambiguous needs and user feedback into scalable, maintainable solutions while mentoring colleagues and strengthening team capability.\nWhy This Role Exists\nOwn data pipelines, datasets, and supporting interfaces end-to-end for analytics, machine learning, and GenAI use cases.\nBuild and maintain AI agents and LLM-powered capabilities that support trusted, efficient business workflows.\nEstablish agent reliability, observability, guardrails, and escalation controls for stable and compliant production operation.\nUse AI-assisted engineering as a core working practice while applying strong judgment to generated code, tests, documentation, recommendations, and downstream risk implications.\nKey Responsibilities\n1. Data Pipeline & Platform Engineering\nIndependently design, build, deploy, and operate batch and streaming data pipelines that meet defined expectations for freshness, correctness, reliability, performance, and cost.\nOwn data models and datasets across ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving, using modern warehouse or Lakehouse technologies.\nMonitor source and platform changes, including ServiceNow data exposed through Databricks views, and address inconsistencies that could affect downstream solutions or agent reliability.\nMake informed technical decisions on pipeline, interface, data-model, and automation changes, escalating only where architectural, compliance, or business-risk thresholds require broader approval.\nControl and monitor approved data access points across structured and unstructured sources, cloud platforms, documentation, and authoritative business repositories.\n2. AI Agent & GenAI Engineering\nBuild, deploy, and enhance machine learning and GenAI solutions aligned with validated user requirements.\nDevelop and maintain AI agents using Python, Azure services, APIs, LLM frameworks, retrieval patterns, and appropriate interface technologies.\nUse AI coding assistants and LLM tooling to plan, scaffold, refactor, test, document, and debug code, while validating outputs before adoption.\nCreate agent-based automations for data-quality investigation, failure triage, documentation, schema and lineage analysis, dataset discovery, and routine remediation.\nTest, refine, and govern prompts; identify new prompts aligned with evolving business needs and approved solution scope.\nIncorporate user feedback, agent metrics, and production outcomes into a closed-loop improvement process for prompts, models, and agent behavior.\n3. Reliability, Observability & Trust Controls\nMonitor system health, trace logs, response quality, hallucination indicators, data drift, failures, and operational trends.\nDefine and maintain practical detection thresholds, alerts, dashboards, and escalation paths for production issues.\nInstrument pipelines and agents, respond to incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive corrective actions for reliability, quality, security, performance, and cost.\nValidate that agent responses rely on approved authoritative data sources and map to defined domain controls, identifiers, measures, or calculation logic where applicable.\nImplement refusal or human-escalation behavior when a request is outside approved scope, lacks authoritative evidence, or requires human judgment.\nPartner with AI platform and technology teams to improve guardrails, usability, response clarity, and front-end experience without changing approved business logic.\n4. Quality, Governance & Documentation\nImplement data-quality and testing controls such as freshness checks, contract tests, anomaly detection, test automation, and clear alerting paths.\nEnsure changes align with applicable architecture, security, privacy, platform, model-governance, and responsible-AI standards.\nMaintain technical documentation, operating procedures, training materials, data lineage, governance records, and service-landscape knowledge.\nAct as an effective first-line tester for changes and enhancements, with clear evidence of validation and traceability.\nInfluence architecture and tooling decisions, balancing delivery speed with maintainability, supportability, scalability, and compliance.\n5. Business Partnership & Capability Building\nTranslate business needs, ambiguous requirements, production findings, and user feedback into prioritized, deliverable increments.\nConsult business and technology stakeholders on proposed changes and communicate technical implications clearly to non-technical audiences.\nPartner with product owners, risk or control specialists, data and analytics teams, and platform teams to deliver solutions that preserve approved business logic.\nTrain end users on effective prompt usage, solution boundaries, escalation paths, and good practices.\nMentor engineers and colleagues through pairing, code review, onboarding, troubleshooting support, and practical knowledge sharing; act as a go-to technical advisor within the team.\n6. Development Capability (ability to fulfil at least 1 of the following specialisms)\nFront-end development - ability to design, build, test and maintain accessible, responsive user interfaces using React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS, or comparable GSK-supported frameworks. Ability to translate user interviews, observation and usability feedback into intuitive, secure user experiences through prototyping, iterative development and validation.\nData engineering - ability to design and operate secure, reliable ingestion from ADLS, Snowflake or other GSK-supported components into Databricks and the appropriate Code Orange foundation, trusted or unified layer. Ability to validate, transform, clean, document and model data through maintainable queries and jobs, producing governed tables or payloads for analytics, data science, AI/ML and LLM solutions, including structured outputs consumable by APIs and front-end applications.\nData science - ability to design, build, evaluate, deploy and support AI/ML models for text, image or numerical analysis. Select reproducible statistical or machine-learning approaches appropriate to the business need and data, define meaningful performance measures, and validate model quality, limitations, robustness and ongoing performance.\nAI engineering - ability to design, version, test and optimise prompts, retrieval and agent workflows; integrate approved LLMs through APIs; and select models and reasoning settings against defined quality, latency, security and cost criteria. Ability to use AIGA components for evaluation, registration, deployment and telemetry, including Weights & Biases Weave and OpenTelemetry, to trace lineage, usage, cost, performance and explainability.\nFull-stack development - ability to design, implement, secure and test end-to-end applications and API-based data interchange across user interface, service and data layers. Demonstrated capability in at least two other listed specialisms, including integration, deployment, observability and operational support within the GSK technology stack.\nRequired Qualifications & Experience\nBachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, data engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nTypically 4- years of relevant hands-on experience building, operating, and improving production data, software, AI, or cloud solutions.\nStrong Python and SQL skills, with experience developing maintainable production code, APIs, tests, and automation.\nHands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services and concepts such as Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Web Apps or App Services, Key Vault, storage, and deployment practices.\nExperience with modern data engineering technologies, including data modeling, Spark, orchestration or transformation tooling, and warehouse or lakehouse patterns.\nExperience with AI or application frameworks such as LangChain or related LLM frameworks, FastAPI, Pydantic, and API gateway patterns such as Kong.\nWorking knowledge of containerization and deployment technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, plus source control and engineering artefacts including GitHub, JSON, JavaScript, Jupyter, YAML, and shell scripting.\nPractical experience using AI coding assistants as part of daily engineering work, with disciplined review of generated output.\nStrong communication, stakeholder-management, and mentoring skills for guiding colleagues and influencing business, product, governance, architecture, security, data, and engineering teams.\nPreferred Qualifications & Experience\nMaster's degree or higher in software engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field.\nExperience creating or significantly extending AI agents in an Azure environment using Python, web applications, and enterprise data sources.\nKnowledge of large language models, generative AI, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector stores, and fine-tuning techniques.\nExperience with unstructured data, data contracts, data-quality frameworks, catalogs, lineage tools, and observability platforms.\nFamiliarity with model governance, privacy-preserving techniques, responsible AI, bias mitigation, and controls for high-stakes or regulated solutions.\nExperience in financial risk management, finance controlling, controls testing, or another regulated business domain.\nExperience working effectively in international, distributed, and cross-functional environments.\n Skills\nData Integrity, Data Quality, Digital Fluency, GxP Regulations, Influencing Without Authority, Lean Management, Problem Solving, Project Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Metrics, Risk Awareness, Technical Writing, Technology ManagementWhy 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. 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