Scientific Team Leader

Job title:

Scientific Team Leader

Company

GlaxoSmithKline

Job description

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.Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpageMMC Informatics Team LeadAre you a driven Analytical or Synthetic Chemist with strong programming skills looking for an opportunity to work in cutting edge drug discovery?Do you have leadership experience?The Molecular Modality Capabilities (MMC) Group’s mission is to accelerate drug discovery by developing and deploying best-in-class technology, with exceptional talent to drive the generation of high quality, reusable data. We are a multidisciplinary team across analytical, purification, high-throughput synthesis and automation that collaborates with project teams to progress the discovery and development of new medicines from hit identification through early development (non-GxP). Core to our mission is the development of digital workflows and custom code that supports our experimental work.We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team working with and supporting GSK Chemistry globally.The successful applicant will join the Molecular Modality Capabilities leadership team, managing their own group with the core mission of connecting our Data & Predictive Science and Tech organisations to the laboratory. This is an opportunity to apply your personal expertise to advance efforts from initial drug design right through the API development process. Alongside this you and your team will deliver data workflows, software solutions, and computational automation that enable ambitious experiments.The position requires an individual with strong analytical, technical, reporting, and personal skills, experience of team or matrix leadership and a commitment to further personal development in both technical and leadership areas.In this role you will partake in and oversee:

• Support for and development of existing analytical and high-throughput chemistry software tools.

• E.g. Global Analytical Data Repository, Centralized Achiral Purification Systems
• Development of new digital workflows that enable automation of complex laboratory processes.
• Interfacing with Data, Informatics and Tech organisations to build aligned processes with long term support.
• Develop technical documentation including requirements documentation, and architecture documentation.
• Liaise with external vendors as appropriate for software/automation evaluations and present recommendations to senior leadership.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high performing informatics team, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• BSc in a relevant scientific or computational discipline with significant pharmaceutical industry experience and training, or MSc/PhD with demonstrable and practical industrial experience in a professional setting
• Experience of generating or utilising experimental synthetic and medicinal chemistry data, interacting with experiment capture systems and accelerating research through automation.
• Strong experience in programming and software development; ideally Python, C#, VB .NET or Java.
• Experience using modern collaborative version control platforms; ideally GitHub.
• Experience using integrated development environments (IDEs) and source code editors; ideally Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge and understanding of modern technologies, infrastructures, and cloud architectures; ideally Azure and Google cloud platforms, and big data.
• Experience with modern query languages and databases (SQL / NoSQL); ideally Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with developing and incorporating APIs; ideally REST and SOAP.
• Experience with laboratory automation, development of custom automation workflows and coding (Python).
• Basic knowledge and understanding of modern AI/ML concepts.
• Experience with data analytics platforms; ideally Spotfire.

Closing Date for Applications – 31st October 2024 (COB)Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.
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We’re uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.Find out more: .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. 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Expected salary

Location

Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Job date

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:54:07 GMT

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