Job Description

421498 Data Curation Developer
This role focuses on the technical experience required to curate (e.g. pre-process, harmonize, wrangle and contextualise) data to produce high-quality data assets for R&D analysis. The aim is to support GSK's Disease Area Strategies and other key R&D priority areas by making data analysis-ready, enabling efficient and effective decision-making across various therapeutic areas.
We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.
We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.
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In this role you will

• Lead the development of business requirements for data curation through collaboration with R&D business and data platform teams.
• Maintain strong connections with analytical groups and R&D Data Platform teams to ensure seamless data integration and usage.
• Provide coaching and peer review to ensure that the team's work reflects industry best practices for data curation activities, including data privacy and anonymization standards.
• Deliver pre-packaged, curated (e.g. pre-process, harmonize, wrangle, contextualise and/or anonymise) datasets aligned to business requirements for analytics, which includes documenting data specification that clearly describes the required processing steps to generate analysis-ready datasets ensuring providence, lineage and privacy requirements is maintained.
• Integrate diverse datasets (e.g., clinical trials, real-world data, omics) into a unified format for consistent analysis.
• Ensure all datasets meet analysis-ready and privacy requirements by performing necessary data curation activities (e.g. pre-process, contextualise and/or anonymise).
• Ensure that datasets are processed to meet conditions mentioned in the approved data re-use request (e.g., remove subjects from countries that do not allow re-use). Write clean, readable code.
• Ensure that deliverables are appropriately quality controlled, documented, and when required, can be handed over to R&D Tech team for production pipeline implementation.

Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• BSc/MSc/PhD (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related subject
• Proven experience of handling various modalities of scientific clinical data such as clinical trial data (including biomarkers), real world data (RWD), omics etc.
• Proven ability to handle and process large structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets efficiently
• Expertise to translate business needs into technical data requirements and processes.
• Proven ability to quantify and provide insights to business impact and value creation from data curation activities.
• Agile mindset with the ability to deliver prototypes quickly and iterate improvements based on stakeholder feedback
• Experience in Python, Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, Pandas, other data engineering frameworks and applying them to achieve industry standards-compliant datasets
• Strong communication skills and expertise to translate business needs into technical data requirements and processes
• Ability to quantify and provide insights to business impact and value creation from data curation activities

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Experience in R
• Experience with industry data standards such as CDISC(ODM: CDASH, SDTM, ADaM), HL7 FHIR, OMOP(CDM) etc.
• Experience with digital clinical trials protocol and Unified Study Definition Model (USDM)Experience in data modelling

Closing Date for Applications - July 13th, 2025 (COB)
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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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Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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