Description
GSK is seeking a Solution Architect to provide solution architecture and design assurance for major initiatives. The role involves producing solution designs, building reliability, resilience, and observability into designs, and working across domains to ensure end-to-end solutions are coherent.
Responsibilities:
- Produce solution designs for major initiatives, aligned to reference architectures, enterprise standards, and strategy
- Build reliability, resilience, and observability into designs from the outset
- Design AI-enabled solutions where AI genuinely accelerates delivery or operations
- Provide design assurance and architecture review for initiatives led by others
- Balance business outcome, cost, risk, and technical fit in every design
- Work across platform domains to ensure end-to-end solutions are coherent
- Assure the architecture of supplier and managed-service solutions to the same standard as internal designs
- Uphold architecture standards and governance
- Ensure designs meet security and compliance requirements
- Reduce rework by engaging early in initiative shaping
- Advise on architectural risk and the consequences of technical debt
- Hold the boundaries with Platform Architects, Enterprise Architects, and engineering teams
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a technology or engineering discipline
- 8+ years in technology architecture or senior engineering
- Experience in more than one technology domain
- Experience working with and influencing business domain architects
- Experience running architecture review or design assurance
- Experience designing solutions for reliability, resilience, and observability
- Experience designing secure and compliant technology solutions
Preferred Qualifications:
- Architecture certifications
- Familiarity with GxP validation requirements
- Experience producing designs later delivered through third-party systems integrators
- Exposure to FinOps or cost-to-operate considerations
- Hands-on experience with AI-enabled patterns
- Ability to decline a design while clearly explaining what would meet the required standard