Job description
Site Name: UK – London – New Oxford Street, Home Worker - GBR, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage
Posted Date: Feb 6 2025
We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.
We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.
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We are growing our data science capabilities as part of Technical Capability Delivery, Clinical Programming & Business Excellence team, which is designed to accelerate Biostatistics at GSK to industry Pre-eminence. As a key enabling function within R&D Biostatistics, the Technical Capability Delivery (TCD) team’s mission is to design, deliver, and embed fit-for-purpose and fit-for-future technical solutions for the pipeline delivery teams which enable faster clinical study reporting and submissions, increased user productivity, reduced cost of ongoing support, without compromising quality and compliance.
As part of GSK’s Future Ready Program and achieving the goal of 1st Quartile Performance, we have an opening for a Principal Tools Developer.
In this role you will:
* Work with clinical programmers/statistical analysts and other internal customers to understand business requirements and industry regulations.
* Design, create, maintain, develop, test and validate enterprise applications and standard tools for internal customers.
* Deliver documentation and trainings.
* Provide direct support for products, including tracking, prioritization, and resolution of user queries and issues.
* Provide subject matter expertise to cross-functional teams including participation in innovation projects.
* Technically lead product development and responsible for product roadmap including contributing to and support the business change objectives of Biostatistics, enabled by Technical Capability Delivery.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
* Bachelor’s degree in data science, mathematics, statistics, computer science or related quantitative discipline.
* Proficient in Python programming language, including data manipulation, statistical analysis, and package development, including expert knowledge of packages pandas, numpy, json, yaml, fastapi, requests, sql alchemy, neo4j.
* Expert in version control systems such as Git for collaborative development and code management.
* An understanding of Computer Systems and Software Validation.
* Knowledge of deploying standard tools/applications in production environments, including managing dependencies and scaling to handle increased loads and number of users.
* Proficient knowledge in Agile methodologies to be able to manage the product development process effectively.
* Proven experience in developing metadata-driven data transformation automation in pharma Biostatistics.
* Broad experience in Data ingestion, Data storage and management, Data integration and transformation, Data pipeline optimisation, Documentation and knowledge sharing.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:
* MSc or equivalent postgraduate qualification in data science, mathematics, statistics, computer science or related quantitative discipline.
* Experience in R and other open-source language programming for clinical reporting.
* Good understanding of Clinical Domains, creating tables, listing and figures.
* Knowledge of CDISC Standards.
* Experience of Computer Systems Validation and Software Validation in a GxP setting.
* Understanding and experience of Shiny framework.
Closing Date for Applications: 13th of February 2025 (COB)
Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert. When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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. 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 place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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