Senior Principal - Atlassian + Tooling Product Owner

GSK; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK in Bengaluru seeks an Atlassian & Tooling Product Owner to maximise value from Enterprise Tooling and translate business needs into a prioritised backlog. You will oversee Jira/Confluence delivery, guide analysts and work with engineers to ensure secure, compliant solutions aligned to product strategy.

You will partner with stakeholders to define outcomes, maintain dashboards, and drive adoption while ensuring regulatory and security guardrails, in a role that touches governance, performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering), or equivalent experience.
• Industry certifications highly desirable (e.g. Agile Methodologies, CPM).
• Area of Specialisation Knowledge of functional domains within Global Functions (e.g., HR, Finance, Legal) and familiarity with the technology platforms that enable them (e.g., ServiceNow, Atlassian).
• Understanding of product performance measures and KPIs, with the ability to drive improvements in product adoption, cycle time, stability, support effort, and overall user experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand functional needs, refine requirements, and define product outcomes within guardrails.
• Own and manage the Product backlog (Jira, Confluence), ensuring epics and user stories are well-defined and data-supported.
• Make prioritisation decisions for the backlog based on value, cost, risk, and capacity.
• Lead delivery activities with Product Analysts, Engineers, Architects and Testers to ensure secure, compliant, and fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Drive operational readiness with a delivery readiness checklist for support, training, continuity and runbooks.
• Define and maintain the Product performance dashboard tracking adoption, cycle time, stability, UX signals and support effort.
• Ensure product changes follow security controls, data handling policies and regulatory considerations.
• Support Solution Architects to assess design options and manage cross-Product dependencies and sequencing.
• Act as escalation point for product issues within agreed guardrails.
• Contribute to improved delivery practices, promoting agile and data-led ways of working.

Skills

Agile Delivery

Agile Methodology

Backlogs

Cross-Functional Teamwork

Design Thinking

DevOps

JIRA Tool

Process Diagrams

Product Management

Product Strategies

Project Management

Requirements Gathering

Services Management

Software Development

Stakeholder Management

User Experience

User Research

User Story

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Industry certifications (Agile, CPM)

Tools

Atlassian Confluence

Jira

ServiceNow

Job description

Business Introduction GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Job Purpose

The Atlassian & Tooling Product Owner is responsible for maximising the value of Enterprise Tooling (i.e. Atlassian) by translating business needs into a prioritised backlog and leading delivery across the product lifecycle, within strategic and financial guardrails set by the Senior Director of SNOW Platform & Enterprise Tools. They work closely with business stakeholders to define outcomes and ensure delivered functionality is usable, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned to product strategy. The Atlassian & Tooling Product Owner guides Product Analysts and works with delivery teams to ensure requirements are clear, value-driven, and data-informed, while overseeing iterative delivery that improves product performance, adoption, and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand functional needs, refine requirements, and define product outcomes that support business priorities, within guardrails set by the Senior Director of SNOW Platform & Enterprise Tools.
• Own and manage the Product backlog (e.g. Jira, Confluence etc), ensuring requirements (e.g., epics, features, user stories) are well-defined and supported by minimum data inputs (e.g., cost drivers, user volumes, risk/sensitivity, process impact, dependencies).
• Make prioritisation decisions for the Product backlog based on value, cost, risk, business continuity, and resource capacity, escalating only where strategic trade-offs are required by the Senior Director of SNOW Platform & Enterprise Tools.
• Lad the Product team’s delivery activities, guiding Product Analysts and working with Engineers, Architects, and Testers to ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned to architectural standards.
• Drive operational readiness by applying a delivery readiness checklist covering support model requirements, training needs, continuity planning, configuration/runbook documentation, release notes, and user onboarding.
• Define and maintain the Product performance dashboard, tracking adoption, cycle time/throughput, stability/defects, UX signals (e.g., CSAT, SUS, completion rates), and support effort; use performance insights to drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure product changes follow required security controls, risk assessments, data handling policies, and regulated change processes, obtaining approvals from relevant SMEs where required.
• Support Solution Architects to assess design options and manage cross-Product dependencies, contract/interface impacts, and sequencing needs to support interoperability and consistent business outcomes.
• Act as an escalation point for the Product team and business users on functional product issues, guiding decisions within agreed financial, risk, and architectural guardrails set by Senior Director of SNOW Platform & Enterprise Tools.
• Contribute to the improvement of delivery practices within the Product, promoting agile (i.e. SaFe, Scrum etc), iterative, value-driven, and data-led ways of working, including meaningful measurement of benefits and operational impact.

Key Relationships/Customers

• Business Stakeholders
• Business Process Owners
• Business Users / Power Users / Key Users
• IT Stakeholders Senior Director of SNOW Platform & Enterprise Tools.
• Solution Architect
• Product teams
• Other Third-party providers

Education & Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering), or equivalent experience.
• Industry certifications highly desirable (e.g. Agile Methodologies, CPM).
• Area of Specialisation Knowledge of functional domains within Global Functions (e.g., HR, Finance, Legal, etc) and familiarity with the technology platforms that enable them (e.g., ServiceNow, Atlassian).
• Understanding of product performance measures and KPIs, with the ability to drive improvements in product adoption, cycle time, stability, support effort, and overall user experience.

Experience Required

• Overall 15 and Typically 5+ years of experience working in product delivery, digital solutions, business systems, or process-led technology roles.
• Proven experience defining and prioritising functional requirements (e.g., epics, features, user stories) and managing a product backlog.
• Experience working within Enterprise HR Technology, Service Management, Corporate Systems, Legal & Compliance etc)
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate needs into feasible, value-led technology changes.
• Demonstrated ability to make prioritisation decisions based on business value, process impact, risk, cost, and technology constraints.
• Experience leading delivery teams or analysts through the product lifecycle, from refinement and design through testing, release, and adoption.
• Familiarity with enterprise governance requirements such as change control, security, data protection, and regulatory/compliance considerations.
• Exposure to continuous improvement approaches (e.g., automation, process simplification, user-centred enhancements) that uplift product adoption, stability, or user experience.
• Experience working within agile delivery environments and using iterative planning, delivery, and release practices.

Desirable Requirements

• Confluence and Jira product and administration expertise – Strong hands‑on knowledge of Atlassian tooling, including instance configuration, governance standards, and day‑to‑day administration across multiple environments.
• Enterprise demand and stakeholder management – Skilled at managing diverse business and tech stakeholders, prioritising requests, and aligning usage patterns and configurations with enterprise standards and roadmap.
• Licensing, contract, and fiscal management ownership – Proven ability to manage Atlassian licensing models, optimise entitlements, and oversee contract and cost controls to keep the platform within budget.
• Governance and adoption in a federated model – Able to define and enforce usage guardrails, templates, and best practices while supporting local teams’ needs and driving consistent, compliant adoption across the enterprise.
• Skills/Background Strong communication and influencing skills, able to explain technology constraints clearly and support stakeholders in making informed product decisions.
• Skilled in coaching and guiding Product Analysts and delivery team members to ensure requirements, documentation, and solutions meet business needs and compliance expectations.
• Able to interpret business processes, user feedback, and operational data to identify opportunities for process simplification, automation, and improved user experience.
• Comfortable working within structured governance, security, and data protection requirements, ensuring product changes remain controlled, supportable, and compliant.
• Strong analytical mindset, able to weigh value, risk, complexity, and cost to make prioritisation decisions and sequence backlog items appropriately.

#AGTech Skills

• Agile Delivery
• Agile Methodology
• Atlassian Confluence
• Backlogs
• Cross-Functional Teamwork
• Design Thinking
• DevOps
• JIRA Tool
• Process Diagrams
• Product Management
• Product Strategies
• Project Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Services Management
• Software Development
• Stakeholder Management
• User Experience (UX)
• User Research
• User Story

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. GSK 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. People 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.Inclusion at GSK: As an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process. Please contact our Recruitment Team at [e-mail] to discuss your needs.

We are 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.

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