Senior Principle SDLC Solution Architect, DevCMO Tech

Overview

Senior Principal SDLC Solution Architect for DevCMO Tech at GSK, contributing to the design and delivery of web applications and platforms for DevCMO Tech and R&D, working alongside architects, engineers, product owners and designers within agile and DevOps practices.

What you'll do

• Design, build and maintain React applications and the back-end services and APIs that support them.
• Design and implement micro-frontend architectures using module federation, including shared dependencies, versioning, and independent deployment of remote modules.
• Containerize applications and deploy them to Azure App Service, including image builds, container registries, configuration, scaling and monitoring.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub) for build, test, security scanning and deployment of containerized applications.
• Use modern AI coding assistants in daily development, and help teams adopt them effectively and responsibly.
• Define and share best practices for AI-assisted development, such as prompting and context, code review of AI-generated code, testing expectations and security guardrails.
• Work with other teams defining DevOps and platform practices to meet the requirements of DevCMO Tech.
• Conduct PoCs of new technologies and help embed them in product teams.
• Ensure technical delivery is fully compliant with GSK Security, Quality and Regulatory standards.
• Ensure use of relevant R&D Tech / central services and collaborate with service partners in identifying and delivering service improvements.
• Maintain best practices for engineering and architecture on the Confluence site.
• Engage in experimentation and innovation to drive relentless improvement.
• Provide leadership, technical direction and GSK expertise to architecture and engineering teams composed of GSK FTEs, strategic partners and software vendors.

What you'll need

• Total 11+ years of experience.
• Proficient with at least 3 of the following skills, and able to demonstrate knowledge and value with relevant experience in all of the following competencies: production React applications with TypeScript/JavaScript; module federation and micro-frontend architecture; containerization (Docker) and deploying containerized applications to Azure App Service; AI coding assistants to build and ship software; back-end development and API design using Node.js, Java, C#/.NET or Python; software development, architecture design and technology platforms/frameworks; Agile, DevOps and automation (testing, build, deployment, CI/CD, etc.); testing strategies and frameworks, including unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• Experience in delivering high-quality engineered web applications.
• Experience with industry standards and technology platforms aligned to GSK and R&D roadmaps.
• Experience working with open-source ecosystems including JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Python etc.
• Experience in various software paradigms: domain-driven, procedural, data-driven, object-oriented, functional.
• Experience in .NET Core (C#), Java, Python.

Nice to have

• MS in Computer Science.
• Experience in agile software development and DevOps, relevant technology platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and frameworks (e.g. Docker), including cloud technologies on Azure and GCP.
• Experience with web performance, accessibility and UI testing, and with component libraries and design systems.
• Experience with authentication and authorization (e.g. OAuth, OpenID Connect, Azure Entra ID) and secure coding practices.
• Experience with observability and monitoring of web applications (e.g. Azure Monitor, Application Insights).
• Subject matter expertise in clinical development.
• Understanding of the relevant technical and scientific domains.
• Experience with agile development methods, security strategies and best practices, data integration mechanisms, architectural design tools, delivering and integrating COTS applications, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Application Integration, Business Process Management and Data Quality.
• Experience in applying AI/ML, data curation, workflow, and advanced visualization techniques to enable decision support across R&D business operations.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower.