Senior Director. Branch and Campus Platform

Senior Director. Branch and Campus Platform   Why Us! At GSK, we unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We are a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We’re proud to be leading a healthcare revolution, and we’re looking for people who can help us deliver on our ambition     Job Purpose     The Senior Director owns a Branch and Campus Platform as a long-lived product rather than a project, setting its strategy and roadmap, leading the team that builds and runs it, and making it easy and safe for GSK to consume through self-service. The role balances new capability, reliability and cost, runs lean portfolio management for the platform, and holds unit-cost transparency and FinOps for it. Platforms span cloud, network and digital workplace domains, and the specific platform is set on appointment.    The role holds platform decision rights over vision, roadmap, prioritisation and value commitments. Product backlogs sit with the Product Owners in the team, technical design and standards sit with the Platform Architect, domain target architecture sits with the Platform Architecture Director, and domain strategy and investment sit with the Head of Platform Domain. Domain demand and sequencing are run by the Domain Portfolio Manager, and the reliability bar is held with Reliability Engineering.      Key Responsibilities: • Set the platform vision and multi-year roadmap, linking every initiative explicitly to GSK Business and D&T strategy and to a measurable outcome.  • Run lean portfolio management for the platform, prioritising by value and risk and steering with OKRs and flow metrics rather than fixed project plans.  • Treat the platform as a product with internal GSK teams as customers, driving self-service adoption so consumption does not depend on the platform team's availability.  • Embed AI into how the platform is built and run, using AI-assisted engineering and intelligent operations to accelerate delivery and reduce toil, measured rather than asserted.  • Partner with Reliability Engineering to hold the shared reliability bar, owning the platform's SLOs and error budgets.  • Own FinOps and unit-cost transparency for the platform, working with the Tech Finance Manager and acting where unit economics deteriorate.  • Lead, grow and develop the platform team across engineering, architecture and product, managing performance, capability and succession.  • Govern supplier and managed-service contributions to the platform, holding them to the same OKRs, service levels and reliability standards as internal work.  • Hold Product Owners to outcome and adoption measures rather than to feature delivery, and resolve prioritisation conflicts between products.  • Report platform adoption, reliability, roadmap predictability and unit cost to the Head of Platform Domain on evidence.  • Represent platform demand and constraint into the domain portfolio run by the Domain Portfolio Manager.  • Hold the boundaries with the Product Owners on product backlogs, the Platform Architect on technical design, and the Head of Platform Domain on domain strategy and investment       Why You! We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals: • Degree in a technology, engineering or business discipline, or equivalent practical experience.  • Significant experience in technology, including leading platform, product or engineering teams with delivery accountability.  • Experience owning a platform or product roadmap and being answerable for adoption rather than delivery alone.  • Practical experience of product-centric or lean portfolio operating models rather than proj