Analytics Architect

Job description

Details:
Company Overview:
At GSK, our mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do
more, feel better, live longer.
We are focused on the research and development of innovative pharmaceutical medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a science-led, global healthcare company that researches and develops innovative products. GSK currently employ over 100,000 people globally and has offices in more than 115 countries.

Job Purpose:
This role will require the jobholder to leverage past technical experience in the big data area to apply to GSK R&D challenges. The role will require the application of a number of emerging technologies and architectures to develop working prototypes of solutions.

This role requires interaction with process owners across Pharma R&D teams. Success will only be achieved through the influencing of these process owners to agree to develop a pilot data solution as a mechanism to address a current need. In order to successfully influence these stakeholders, and deliver on the roles expectations and responsibilities, a strong set of executive communication skills will be required.

Have a ‘can do' attitude, helping the organization to develop new ways of working, flex between approaches and deal with ambiguity while directing others.

Key Responsibilities:
Broad knowledge of pharmaceutical R&D and/or practical experience in a scientific domain (e.g. Chemistry)
Provide leadership and direction for the implementation of capabilities of the Big Data Platform
Research and recommend tools and technologies for the R&D Information Platform
Stay abreast of new technologies and solutions in the Big Data arena
Demonstrated skill in delivering solutions that integrate commercial off-the-shelf products
Strong knowledge of industry standards and technology platforms aligned to GSK and R&D

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Desired profile

Basic qualifications:
Experience designing and building complex, high performance solutions to support analytics problem in life science.
Thorough understanding of the Cloudera Hadoop ecosystem, security, Kerberos, TLS/SSL encryption, and Sentry.
Experience and understanding of visualization tools like Spotfire, Tableau and ZoomData
Experience and understanding of various third party vendor solutions such BI reporting solutions, ETL solutions, and search engines.
Proven track record working in industrial scale analytics relating in healthcare.
Deep understanding of Hadoop storage and compute frameworks – Key Value stores, wide column stores, mutable vs. immutable stores, document stores.
Linux file system management

*Please note that this role has been a designated as a Field Based role that can be located anywhere in the US*

Preferred qualifications:
Experience and understanding of various third party vendor solutions such as StreamSets, H2O, TAMR, Composite, Trifacta, .
Programming languages like Java, Scala, C++
Scripting languages like Python, Bash Perl