• Job Description

  Req#: 352500

  This role can be based in San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Upper providence or Stevenage (UK), London (UK)

  As part of GSK’s ambition to “Supercharge our data capability”, the Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines.

  We are 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:

  • Building 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”

  • Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent

  • Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time

  The UI/UX Engineering organization represents the construction of the ‘digital laboratory’ that powers GSK research.

  Deliverables range from interfaces for our core platform offerings to full-fledged, use-case scientific question driven, data-powered experiences for accelerating GSK’s Research and AI/ML organizations in their missions to find new medicines.

  This role is accountable for building and leading a high-functioning engineering organization that:

  • Ensures success of the Onyx platform teams by partnering with them to produce simple, intuitive user interfaces for spinning up new projects, monitoring job results, and accessing core platform services such as search

  • Builds best-in-class data-powered experiences for our partners in research and AI/ML, tackling high-value use-cases that significantly improve their ability to discover new targets and medicines

  • Partners with the Infrastructure, DevOps, and Support organization to ensure their roadmap covers core services/capabilities that significantly accelerate UI development projects and to ensure a robust support and operations model

  The Sr. Director, Onyx UI/UX Engineering is an externally credible deep technical leader who is expected to build strong relationships across the scientific and tech communities; to also provide a strong voice for development standards and modern architecture both within their organization as well as across the entirety of Onyx.

  Partnership with the other Onyx heads will be fundamental to the role to ensure we have a single Onyx culture as well as a single roadmap designed to serve downstream delivery teams in Onyx and elsewhere in R&D Digital and Tech.

  The roadmap will also need to accurately represent the needs and delivery plans of decision makers, scientists, and engineers at GSK R&D; partnering with Product teams to ensure we are executing effectively and transparently.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Recruit, lead, develop, and retain a high-functioning organization of engineers focused on excellence in UI/UX delivery.

  • Be detail driven, and able to manage their own or team’s time across several projects at the same time

  • Partner with Onyx Infrastructure, DevOps, and Support to ensure robust automation, operability, and support are core to all UI/UX services from day one Work with the Product team to build a comprehensive product roadmap and ensure the UI/UX Engineering team executes on that roadmap and provides world-class experiences to our customers.

  • Lead the development and execution of a framework for usability tests with users to gather direct feedback and work with product teams to ensure feedback loop drives continuous improvement of data powered experiences

  • Partner with heads of the Platform groups to build intuitive, simple and elegant interfaces for access to their core services, creating a single-pane-of-glass view of the entire Onyx platform for our customers

  • Along with other Heads of Engineering on Onyx, provide a strong voice for modern architecture across the Onyx organization and beyond

  • Represent Onyx in technical blog posts and similar in order to aid awareness of the Onyx mission and recruiting

  Minimum Level of Experience Required

  • 8 years job-related experience with an established track record of developing and operating software platforms / services, particularly in the data space

  • At least 4 years building and managing teams, including indirect management

  Minimum Level of Education Required

  Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in IT, Data Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, AND Biological or Chemistry discipline

  Preferred Level of Education

  PhD in IT, Data Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, OR Biological or Chemistry discipline

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  The annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $203,397 to $275,184 taking into account a number of factors including work location, 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.

  Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

  Why Us?

  GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

  Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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  GlaxoSmithKline plc is a British multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Brentford, England.

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