{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"f84dd75a6dff7cae500dc76d","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f84dd75a6dff7cae500dc76d","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f84dd75a6dff7cae500dc76d","title":"Senior Data Platform Engineer","description":"Purpose of Onyx\nThe Onyx Research Data Tech organization is GSK’s Research data ecosystem which has the capability to bring together, analyze, and power the exploration of data at scale. We partner with scientists across GSK to define and understand their challenges and develop tailored solutions that meet their needs. The goal is to ensure scientists have the right data and insights when they need it to give them a better starting point for and accelerate medical discovery. Ultimately, this helps us get ahead of disease in more predictive and powerful ways.\nOnyx is a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:\nBuilding a next-generation, metadata- and automation-driven data experience for GSK’s scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on “data mechanics”\nProviding best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent\nAggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time\nWe are looking for a skilled and experienced Sr Data Platform Engineer to join our growing team. Data Platform Engineers take full ownership of delivering high-performing, high-impact data platform as products, and services, from a description of a problem customer Data Engineers are trying to solve all the way through to final delivery (and ongoing monitoring and operations). They are standard bearers for software engineering and quality coding practices within the team and are expected to mentor more junior engineers; they may even coordinate the work of more junior engineers on a large project. They devise useful metrics ensuring their services are meeting customer demand, having an impact, and iterate to deliver and improve on those metrics in an agile fashion.\nThe Data Platform team builds and manages reusable components and architectures designed to make it both fast and easy to build robust, scalable, production-grade data products and services in the challenging biomedical data space.\nA Sr Data Platform Engineer is a technical individual contributor, building modern, cloud-native systems for standardizing and templatizing scientific data analysis and data engineering, such as:\nCloud native infrastructure, CI/CD and DevOps (GCP and Azure)\nData management and governance (data + metadata + versioning + provenance + governance)\nHigh dimensionality and scale scientific data processing and analysis with multi-modality scientific data\nAPI semantics and ontology management\nStandard API architecture, implementation and operation\nStandard streaming semantics and processing\nStandard components for publishing data to file-based, relational, and other sorts of data stores\nMetadata systems\nTooling for QA / evaluation\nKey responsibilities for the Senior Data Platform Engineer include:\nGiven a well-specified data and scientific problem, implement end-to-end solutions using appropriate programming languages (e.g. Python, R, bash), open-source tools (e.g. Spark, Nextflow, k8s...), and cloud vendor-provided tools (e.g. gcloud cli, Azure)\nLeverage tools provided by Tech (e.g. infrastructure as code, cloud Ops, DevOps, logging / alerting, ...) in delivery of solutions\nWrite proper documentation in code as well as in wikis/other documentation systems\nWrite fantastic code along with proper unit, functional, and integration tests for code and services to ensure quality\nStay up-to-date with developments in the open-source community around data engineering, data science, and similar tooling\nWhy you?\nBasic Qualifications:\nWe are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience with 8+ years of work experience\nProficiency with Python Programming language\nExperience with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP\nExperience with agile software development and DevOsps-forward ways of working\nPreferred Qualifications:\nIf you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:\nAdvanced Degree\nExperience building data pipelines with ETL/ELT tools and orchestration frameworks.\nKnowledge of data modeling, partitioning, and performance tuning for analytical workloads.\nKnowledge of data governance, access controls, and data quality practices.\nPrior experience mentoring engineers and collaborating with cross-functional product teams.\n#GSKOnyx, #LI-GSK\n\nHow to apply\nWe welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and experiences. If this role sounds like a match, please apply and tell us how your skills and experience can help build a better data platform. We look forward to learning more about you.\nIf you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $157,575 to $262,625. The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.\nPlease visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.\nWhy 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.\nIf you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the appropriate Recruitment Staff by emailing us at - usrecruitment.adjustments@gsk.com\nGSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.\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. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.\nPlease note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. 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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.\nIf you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the appropriate Recruitment Staff by emailing us at - usrecruitment.adjustments@gsk.com\nGSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.\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. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.\nPlease note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. 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