Associate Director, Data Domain Lead

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. We're uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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Associate Director, Data Domain Lead drives the strategic design, prioritization, and structural development of GCO's data flows, ensures seamless integration between source and downstream systems. Builds and maintains data flow reference model (standardization of data flow). This role ensures that business data needs are captured, prioritized, and reflected in the integrated roadmap. The Data Domain Lead represents GCO in enterprise-wide data governance efforts and ensures GCO functional needs are accounted for and deployed. This role can provide mentorship to junior roles, acts as Subject Matter Expert in data flow area and may include line management.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• 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?

Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

• Academic Degree, in 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 Qualification
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• 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

Why GSK?

We also offer a wide range of additional 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 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

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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 pl.recruitment- to discuss your needs.

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 pl.recruitment- to discuss your needs.

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.

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