Regulatory Affairs Business Data Architect

GlaxoSmithKline; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative biopharma company is seeking a Business Systems Data Architect to lead the architectural vision for regulatory data. This role involves collaborating with teams to shape data architecture, ensuring compliance with governance standards, and leveraging cloud technologies to support AI initiatives. The ideal candidate will have expertise in cloud data management and a passion for driving data quality and integration across systems. Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to making a positive impact on global health while enjoying a hybrid work model and a range of competitive benefits.

Benefits

Healthcare and wellbeing programmes

Pension plan membership

Annual bonus based on performance

Shares and savings programme

Qualifications

• Expertise in designing and maintaining data assets, focusing on cloud platforms.
• Experience with data governance initiatives and data integration flows.

Responsibilities

• Oversee architects and data engineers in designing data capabilities.
• Establish data governance and quality standards for regulatory data.

Skills

Cloud Data Management

Data Architecture

AI/ML Frameworks

Data Governance

Data Quality Management

Data Integration

Data Modelling

Education

Degree in IT or related field

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Denodo

Erwin Data Modeler

Job description

Site Name: UK – London – New Oxford Street
Posted Date: May 8 2025

As a Business Systems Data Architect, you will collaborate closely with the Regulatory team to drive the architectural vision for regulatory data and its consumption and usage. This role requires a deep understanding of modern data architectures, cloud technologies, and knowledge of AI/ML frameworks.

You will play a critical role in shaping and overseeing the Regulatory data architecture utilising existing cloud data technologies, data pipelines,the management of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data and data quality which is critical to the success of GSK’s AI initiatives.

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.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK

In this role you will

• Provide oversight and advice to Architects, Data Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and Data Engineers who are designing and implementing data capabilities, integration solutions, and data models.
• Establish and enforce data governance, data quality, access, storage, reference data, master data, integration, interoperability, data modelling, and data security standards for GSK regulatory domain.
• Design Data products, (e.g., clinical trial registry, adverse events) with well-formed APIs and metadata, and storage designs across layers (e.g., bronze, silver, gold) of the Data platform, maintaining scalability, performance and alignment with organisational objectives.
• Promote best practices for interoperability, integration, and data exchange to support the seamless flow and mapping of data and processes across systems (e.g., from preclinical, clinical trials, regulatory submission).
• Define, review, and maintain data architectures, ensuring compliance with development, security, and infrastructure standards (e.g. understanding of FAIR data principles).
• Design data architectures capable of processing large volumes of data and supporting future growth, enabling AI and data science teams to work with complex datasets.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• In-depth expertise in designing, documenting and maintainingdataassets, with emphasis on data mesh, data products and cloud data platformsparticularly with Azure, Databrick and Denodo.
• Experience with cloud data management, integration, and data platform analytics and machine learning.
• Knowledge and experience in RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems, knowledge graphs (e.g.Stardog, Neo4j), and document vector store technologies.
• Understanding of MDM, includingdesign and implementing data integration flows between MDM and other systems.
• Use of tools like Erwin Data Modeler to create and maintain the data architecture of an organization, including data models, data flows, and data standards.
• Experience of data governance initiatives, working with business data glossary and Collibra data governance centre.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Education: Educated to degree level, or undergraduate level or equivalent experience in IT.
• Certifications: TOGAF or BCS Certification (desirable).

Closing Date for Applications – 15 May 2025 (COB)

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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.

At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives.GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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Our approach to R&D.

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 – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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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