Senior Compute Platform Engineer

GSK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK in Greater London seeks a Data Engineer to enhance their Onyx Research Data Platform, aiming to leverage data for better patient outcomes. Responsibilities include designing tools and developing hybrid compute solutions, ensuring performance optimization, and leading software engineering efforts.

The role demands deep technical knowledge, particularly in Python, Cloud technologies, and High Performance Computing, with a minimum of 6 years of experience required. Join a team focused on innovative data solutions that accelerate medicine discovery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data engineering or related discipline.
• 6+ years of professional experience.
• Experience with Python and Cloud technologies.
• Experience in High Performance Computing (HPC).

Responsibilities

• Design and operate tools that solve key business problems.
• Develop components for hybrid on-prem/cloud compute platform.
• Consult science users on performance optimization for large data.
• Produce well-engineered software and ensure quality consistency.

Skills

Python

Cloud computing

High Performance Compute

C++

Java

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data engineering, Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Git/GitHub

DevOps tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

At GSK, we want to supercharge our data capability to better understand our patients and accelerate our ability to discover vaccines and medicines. 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.

The Onyx Research Data Platform organization 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. It is 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.

Our Compute Platform Engineering team is building a first‑in‑class platform of toolchains and workflows that accelerate application development, scale up computational experiments, and integrate all computation with project metadata, logs, experiment configuration and performance tracking over abstractions that encompass Cloud and High‑Performance Computing. This metadata‑forward, CI/CD‑driven platform represents and enables the entire application and analysis lifecycle including interactive development and explorations (notebooks), large‑scale batch processing, observability and production application deployments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate tools, services, workflows, etc. that deliver high value through solutions to key business problems.
• Responsible for development of key components of a hybrid on‑prem/cloud compute platform for both interactive and scalable batch computing and establishing processes and workflows to transition existing HPC users and teams to this platform.
• Responsible for code‑driven environment, applications, and container/image builds as well as CI/CD‑driven application deployments.
• Consult science users on application scalability to petabytes of data by deeply understanding software engineering, algorithms, and underlying hardware infrastructure and their impact on performance.
• Confidently optimise design and execution of complex solutions within large‑scale distributed computing environments.
• Produce well‑engineered software, including appropriate automated test suites, technical documentation, and operational strategy.
• Ensure consistent application of platform abstractions to ensure quality and consistency with respect to logging and lineage.
• Fully versed in coding best practices and ways of working, and participate in code reviews and partnering to improve the team’s standards.
• Adhere to QMS framework and CI/CD best practices and help guide improvements to them that improve ways of working.
• Provide leadership to team members to help others get the job done right.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in data engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
• 6+ years of professional experience.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience with Cloud.
• Experience with High Performance Compute (HPC).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep knowledge and use of at least one common programming language: e.g., Python, C++, Java, including toolchains for documentation, testing, and operations / observability.
• Deep expertise in modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g., git/GitHub, DevOps tools, metrics / monitoring).
• Deep cloud expertise (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), including infrastructure‑as‑code tools and scalable compute technologies, such as Google Batch and Vertex.
• Experience with CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g., Azure DevOps, CloudBuild, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab).
• Deep expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and the larger CNCF ecosystem including experience with application deployment tools such as Helm.
• Experience with low‑level application build tools (make, CMake) as well as automated build systems such as Spack or Easybuild.
• Experience with workflow orchestration with tools such as Argo Workflow, Airflow, and scientific workflow tools such as Nextflow, Snakemake, VisTrails, or Cromwell.
• Experience with application performance tuning and optimization, including in parallel and distributed computing paradigms and communication libraries such as MPI, OpenMP, Gloo, including deep understanding of the underlying systems (hardware, networks, storage) and their impact on application performance.
• Demonstrated excellence with agile software development environments using tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Deep familiarity with the tools, techniques, optimizations in high‑performance applications space, including engagement with the open‑source community (and potentially making contributions to such tools).

GSK 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.