Data Architect II
GSK
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cambridge • California, Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $109,725 - $182,875 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AzureCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformNoSQLRDBMS
About the role
- Partner with the Scientific Knowledge Engineering team to develop physical data models to build fit-for-purpose data products
- Design data architecture aligned with enterprise-wide standards to promote interoperability
- Collaborate with the platform teams and data engineers to maintain architecture principles, standards, and guidelines
- Design data foundations that support GenAI workflows including RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), vector databases, and embedding pipelines
- Work across business areas and stakeholders to ensure consistent implementation of architecture standards
- Lead reviews and maintain architecture documentation and best practices for Onyx and our stakeholders
- Adopt security-first design with robust authentication and resilient connectivity
- Provide best practices and leadership, subject matter, and GSK expertise to architecture and engineering teams composed of GSK FTEs, strategic partners, and software vendors.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, Data Science or similar discipline
- 5+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or related fields in pharma, healthcare, or life sciences R&D.
- 3+ years’ experience of defining architecture standards, patterns on Big Data platforms
- 3+ years’ experience with data warehouse, data lake, and enterprise big data platforms
- 3+ years’ experience with enterprise cloud data architecture (preferably Azure or GCP) and delivering solutions at scale
- 3+ years of hands-on relational, dimensional, and/or analytic experience (using RDBMS, dimensional, NoSQL data platform technologies, and ETL and data ingestion protocols)
Benefits
- health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits
- paid holidays
- vacation
- paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
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Hard skills
data architecturedata engineeringdata modelingBig Data platformsdata warehousedata lakeenterprise cloud data architecturerelational databasesNoSQLETL
Soft skills
collaborationleadershipcommunicationsubject matter expertisebest practices