# Principal Developer – Aspen

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

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## Description

## Job Purpose

The Principal Developer – Aspen designs, develops, tests, and supports Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solutions using Aspen Manufacturing Suite.

## Key Responsibilities:

- Design, configure, develop, and implement MES solutions using Aspen Manufacturing Suite.

- Translate business and manufacturing requirements into technical solutions by developing and maintaining system integrations, database objects, and custom applications to support business needs.

- Perform testing, deployment, and validation activities to ensure system reliability and compliance.

- Troubleshoot and resolve MES application issues and provide production support.

- Use approved development and AI-assisted tools to improve productivity and solution quality.

- Ensure compliance with GxP, data integrity, cybersecurity, and company standards.

- Create and maintain technical documentation, design specifications, and support materials.

- Contribute to standardization, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Collaborate with business users, project teams, and vendors to successfully deliver MES projects while providing technical guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to team members.

- Participate in system upgrades, enhancements, and lifecycle management activities.

- Develop expertise across MES platforms, software technologies, and AI tools to effectively support and deliver solutions across multiple MES systems.

- Use AI-assisted development as the default way of coding, testing, reviewing, and documenting, and validate all AI-generated output for quality, security, data integrity, and GxP before release.

- Implement version control and automated build, test, and deployment practices where supported, achieving improved release quality and deployment efficiency.

- Monitor production performance, proactively identify and eliminate root causes of issues, reducing recurring incidents and improving system reliability and availability.

## Basic Qualifications:

- 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, AI, cloud, integration, automation, data, validation, cyber security, or engineering certifications.

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

- Experience in Aspen Manufacturing Suite MES and the ability to work across multiple MES platforms.

- Experience in leading MES solution delivery across products, platforms, and sites.

- Experience in software development, database technologies, and system integrations within manufacturing or enterprise environments.

- Experience in industrial connectivity technologies such as OPC UA (Unified Architecture)/OPC HDA (Historical Data Access) and manufacturing system integrations.

- Experience in technical review, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.

- Experience in coordinating cross-functional teams and vendors to deliver compliant solutions that can be operated and scaled.

- Experience in managing technical risk, ensuring data integrity, GxP compliance, and supporting audits and inspections.

- Experience in mentoring engineers and supporting technical best practices and standardization.

- Experience in using AI-assisted development tools and applying software quality, security, compliance, and maintainability controls.

## Skills

### Required
- Agile Methodology
- API Management
- CI/CD
- Cloud Based Services
- Computer Programming
- Configuration Management (CM)
- Containerization
- Database Management
- High Availability (Inactive)
- Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
- Microservices Architecture
- Network Security
- Operating Systems (OS)
- System Monitors
- Version Control System

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