Associate Director, Data Domain Lead

Job description

Site Name: Warsaw, GSK HQ

Posted Date: Dec

Associate Director, Data Domain Lead

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Owns and leads the Clinical Operations Data Consumption Domain roadmap, sequencing and prioritizing data needs in alignment with business and technology.
• Defines and maintains the target business data domain architecture and guiding principles for scalability and reuse.
• Leads prioritization of business data needs based on strategic impact and feasibility.
• Is accountable for and partners with Tech on the technical implementation of solutions enabling data access (e.g., via Development Data Fabric (DDF) platform).
• Owns and maintains the end to end lifecycle of GCO relevant data assets-identifies the right sources, ensures lineage, owns data transformations, monitors data usage.
• Collaborates with Business on the logical design and with Tech on the evolution of data domain architecture (acts as a bridge between Business and Technology).
• Can be a Business Owner of Consumption Domain(s) in DDF.
• Acts as a Subject Matter Expert, mentor, and coach.
• Can be Line Manager for other members of the team.

Why You?

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career.

Basic Qualifications

• Academic Degree in a scientific or business discipline (life sciences, mathematics, statistics, computer or data science).
• Pharma, CRO and/or Academic Research Organization experience, for at least 7-10 years.
• Experience in data stewardship, data governance/management, and/or business analysis.
• Effective communication, engagement and influencing experience at the department and cross departmental level.
• Proven competency of communication and influencing skills with key external experts and stakeholders (such as consultants, technical teams, therapeutic area experts and regulators).
• Technical understanding of data workflows, data acquisition, transformations and data preparations for consumption layers.
• Strong knowledge of clinical, operational data & metadata, including acquisition, storage, and utilization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect business value, governance, and architecture.
• In depth knowledge of data platforms and enterprise data management.
• Familiarity with Data Mesh principles and their application in a business environment.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Effective communicator between business and technology functions (acting as bridge between Business and Tech teams).
• Operates across a global, complex organization.

Benefits

• Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies.
• Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefit).
• Life insurance and pension plan.
• Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible counterparts.
• Sports cards (Multisport).
• Possibilities of development within the role and the company's structure.
• Personalized learning approach (mentoring, online training platforms: Pluralsight, Business Skills, Harvard Manage Mentor, Skillsoft and external training).
• Extensive support of work life balance (flexible working solutions, short Fridays option, health & well being activities).
• Supportive community and integration events.
• Modern office with creative rooms, fresh fruits every day.

As an Inclusive employer, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process. Please contact our Recruitment Team at to discuss your needs.

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.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.