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Director Solution Architect

GSK · gsk.com
BengaluruDirector18+ yrs
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Solution architecture and design assurance for major pharma digital and tech initiatives.

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9 d ago · posted 2026-10-28
Location
Bengaluru

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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 Solution Architect provides solution architecture and design assurance for major GSK initiatives, ensuring solutions meet architecture standards, fit the target architecture and deliver the intended business outcomes. The role produces solution designs, builds reliability, resilience and observability in from the start, designs AI-enabled solutions where they accelerate delivery or operations, and works across domains so that end-to-end solutions are coherent rather than locally optimal. Platform-level reference architectures and standards sit with the Platform Architects and Platform Architecture Directors in each business domain, engineering delivery sits with the platform engineering teams, and enterprise architecture strategy and the architecture team sit with the Head of Solution Architecture and the Enterprise Architects. Where a design touches platforms, the business-facing domain architect leads and this role assures. Key Responsibilities • Produce solution designs for major DPTF and broader Digital &Tech initiatives, aligned to reference architectures, enterprise standards and strategy. • Build reliability, resilience and observability into designs from the outset, aware of the SLOs the consuming services commit to. • Design AI-enabled solutions where AI genuinely accelerates delivery or operations and state the case rather than including it by default. • Provide design assurance and architecture review for initiatives led by others, declining designs that do not meet the standard and saying what would. • Balance business outcome, cost, risk and technical fit in every design • Work across platform domains so that end-to-end solutions are coherent, surfacing conflicts between domain architectures early. • Assure the architecture of supplier and managed-service solutions to the same standard as internal designs. • Uphold architecture standards and governance, routing genuine exceptions through Enterprise Architecture rather than allowing local workarounds. • Ensure designs meet security and compliance requirements, including GxP where the initiative supports regulated activity. • Reduce rework by engaging early in initiative shaping rather than reviewing completed designs and evidence the reduction. • Advise on architectural risk and the consequence of the technical debt they are accepting. • Hold the boundaries with the Platform Architects on platform-level reference architecture, the Enterprise Architects on enterprise strategy and standards, and the engineering teams on build. Education & Professional Qualifications • Degree in a technology or engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience (e.g., Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems). • Architecture certifications desirable (recognised cloud, network or workplace architecture certification). Job Experience: • 18+ years in technology architecture or senior engineering, including at least three years producing solution designs for major initiatives. • Breadth across more than one technology domain, sufficient to design and assure end to end rather than within a specialism. • Experience working with and influencing one or more business domain architects (eg: R&D, Commercial, Global Functions, or Global Supply Chain) • Experience running architecture review or design assurance, including declining a design and specifying what would pass. • Track record designing for reliability, resilience and observability rather than adding them afterwards. • Experience designing secure and compliant solutions • Experience assuring supplier or systems integrator designs to an internal standard. • Practical awareness of AI patterns and judgment for where AI adds genuine value • Hands-on experience designing across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS on Azure and/or GCP • A firm understanding of Modern Engineering workflows, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability, and how AI-assisted and agentic tooling fits into them. Desirable • Familiarity with GxP validation requirements for solution designs, beyond platform standards • Experience producing designs later delivered through third-party systems integrators • Exposure to FinOps or cost-to-operate considerations in solution design decisions • Hands-on experience with AI-enabled patterns (RAG, agentic workflows) as delivery accelerants Preferred Skills: • Breadth over depth, with the confidence to reason about domains where others are the specialists. • Ability to decline a design and leave the relationship intact by saying clearly what would pass. • Clear design documentation and diagramming for mixed technical and business audiences. • Judgement about when an exception is genuinely warranted and when it is convenience. • Comfort engaging early in initiative shaping where requirements are still ambiguous. • Pragmatism about technical debt, making the cost visible rather than blocking delivery. #AGTech Skills Architettura Cloud, Architettura della tecnologia, Architettura di microservizi, Architettura di rete, Architettura di soluzioni tecniche, Architettura orientata ai servizi (SOA), Cloud computing, DevOps, Garanzia di progettazione, Gestione API, Integrazione del sistema, Intelligenza artificiale (IA), Leadership di ingegneria, Progettazione dell'architettura di sicurezza, Progettazione di soluzioni, Progettazione software, Revisioni architettoniche, Sicurezza Informatica, Sistemi di gestione di database (DBMS), Sviluppo applicazioni, Sviluppo dell'architettura dei dati Perché GSK? Unire scienza, tecnologia e talento per essere un passo avanti rispetto alle malattie, insieme. GSK è una azienda biofarmaceutica globale con l'obiettivo di unire scienza, tecnologia e talento per essere un passo avanti rispetto alle malattie, insieme. Contiamo di poter incidere positivamente sulla salute di 2,5 miliardi di persone entro la fine del decennio, come un'azienda di successo e in crescita dove le persone possono prosperare. Affrontiamo le malattie prevenendole e trattandole, portando innovazione attraverso farmaci specialistici e vaccini. Ci concentriamo su quattro aree terapeutiche: respiratorio, immunologia e infiammazione; oncologia; HIV; e malattie infettive – per generare un impatto sulla salute su larga scala. Persone e pazienti in tutto il mondo contano sui farmaci e vaccini che produciamo, per questo ci impegniamo a creare un ambiente in cui il nostro personale possa realizzarsi e concentrarsi su ciò che conta di più. La nostra cultura è fatta da ambizione per i pazienti, responsabilità per l'impatto generato e impegno a fare la cosa giusta e rappresenta la base per costruire risultati a beneficio di pazienti, azionisti e delle nostre persone. Inclusione in GSK: Come datore di lavoro impegnato nell'Inclusione, ti invitiamo a contattarci se hai bisogno di richiedere specifici accorgimenti al nostro processo di reclutamento o altro tipo di assistenza per candidarti a un lavoro presso GSK Contatta il nostro team di reclutamento all'indirizzo [email protected] per discutere delle tue esigenze. Avviso importante per le aziende/agenzie che forniscono servizi di ricerca e selezione GSK non accetta segnalazioni da aziende/agenzie di ricerca e selezione in merito alle posizioni vacanti pubblicate su questo sito. Tutte le aziende/agenzie di ricerca e selezione sono tenute a contattare il dipartimento Acquisti/Risorse Umane di GSK per ottenere un'autorizzazione scritta preventiva prima di segnalare qualsiasi candidato a GSK. L'ottenimento di tale autorizzazione scritta e preventiva è una condizione propedeutica a qualsiasi accordo (verbale o scritto) tra l'azienda/agenzia di ricerca e selezione e GSK. In assenza di tale autorizzazione scritta, tutte le azioni intraprese dall'azienda/agenzia di ricerca e selezione saranno considerate eseguite senza il consenso o l'accordo contrattuale di GSK. GSK non sarà pertanto responsabile per eventuali commissioni derivanti da tali azioni o per eventuali commissioni derivanti da segnalazioni da parte di aziende/agenzie di ricerca e selezione in merito alle posizioni vacanti pubblicate su questo sito. 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