# Senior Technical SME and Engineer for Engineering, EHS & Sustainability

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Senior Technical SME and Engineer for Engineering, EHS & Sustainability provides technical leadership for a product family, technology platform, programme or group of sites.

Responsibilities:

- Implement technical solution designs and configurations in accordance with approved architecture and product strategy.

- Own technical quality for the assigned scope, including specifications, design documentation, configuration records and technical validation evidence.

- Keep EHS, engineering and sustainability system configuration under version control, peer-reviewed, and covered by repeatable tests.

- Perform troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, with timely escalation where manufacturing batches, product quality, patient supply or data integrity may be affected.

- Design or configure interfaces, workflows, recipes, data models and environments and write or review related specifications and test scripts.

- Analyse logs, metrics, monitoring and system behaviour to identify defects, performance issues and opportunities for improvement.

- Coach site engineers and super users and contribute to training, runbooks and knowledge articles.

- Lead technical design and implementation across multiple projects, releases or sites.

- Review and approve key technical specifications, design documents, configurations, test scripts and validation evidence.

- Provide technical direction during complex incidents, releases and stabilisation and coordinate internal and supplier engineering resources.

- Assess technical risks and ensure mitigation addresses security, compliance, resilience, data integrity and supportability.

- Maintain technical standards and reusable engineering assets for the assigned product family or platform.

- Support formal technical assurance, audits and inspections and ensure corrective actions are evidence based.

- Drive engineering lessons learned and cross-team continuous improvement.

- Lead the end-to-end technical design and implementation of secure, scalable AI and generative AI solutions.

- Define and approve AI evaluation strategies, acceptance criteria, test evidence and production-readiness decisions.

- Ensure appropriate controls for responsible AI, data privacy, cybersecurity, human oversight, traceability and regulated change.

- Lead complex investigations into AI quality, retrieval, data, integration and operational issues.

- Establish reusable AI engineering standards, reference architectures and design patterns, while coaching engineers and suppliers.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Automation, Data, Life Sciences or a relevant technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

- Relevant technical, cloud, integration, automation, data, validation, cyber security or engineering certifications are desirable.

- Typically 7+ years of hands-on technical engineering experience in complex enterprise or operational technology environments.

- Proven experience leading technical design and implementation for a product family, platform, programme or multiple sites.

- Experience reviewing and approving specifications, design documents, configurations, test scripts and technical validation evidence.

- Demonstrated leadership of complex troubleshooting and root-cause investigations across systems, interfaces, workflows, data and infrastructure.

- Experience coordinating internal engineers, site teams, vendors and specialist partners through design, deployment and stabilisation.

- Experience assessing technical risk and ensuring security, data integrity, resilience, compliance and supportability requirements are met.

- Experience coaching engineers and translating lessons learned into reusable standards, patterns and knowledge.

- Experience supporting audits, inspections or formal technical assurance activities.

- Experience leading at least one AI or generative AI solution from design through testing, controlled release and operational support.

## Skills

### Required
- Agile Methodology
- Backlogs
- Cross-Functional Teamwork
- Design Thinking
- DevOps
- Process Diagrams
- Product Strategies
- Project Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Services Management
- Software Development
- User Experience (UX)
- User Research
- User Story

### Nice to have
- Python
- SQL
- REST APIs
- data pipelines
- source-control practices such as Git
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
- Ability to translate architecture and product direction into clear technical designs and implementation activities
- Clear technical writing and disciplined maintenance of specifications, designs, test evidence and configuration records
- Understanding of interfaces, workflows, data, environments, monitoring and operational support
- Awareness of security, quality, validation, data integrity, resilience and change controls
- Ability to collaborate across global business, site, engineering, architecture, product, service and supplier teams
- Continuous-improvement mindset with emphasis on standardisation, reuse, automation and knowledge sharing
- Technical leadership and ability to challenge designs constructively
- Coaching and knowledge-transfer capability
- Confidence communicating technical risk and recommendations to governance and senior stakeholders
- Strong applied knowledge of generative AI, large language models, machine learning and retrieval-augmented generation
- Ability to architect solutions integrating AI models with enterprise data, applications, APIs and workflows
- Strong understanding of AI evaluation, including correctness, groundedness, relevance, consistency, safety and regression testing
- Practical knowledge of Python, SQL, REST APIs, data pipelines and source-control practices such as Git
- Strong understanding of responsible AI, privacy, cybersecurity, prompt injection, data leakage and human-in-the-loop controls

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