Director Network Engineering

Director Network Engineering   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 Director Network Engineering sets, monitors and governs engineering practices and standards for GSK's network engineering platform, spanning local and wide area networking, wireless and network security. The role owns the engineering management system for the platform, including quality engineering, DevSecOps, platform-specific observability, automation, release discipline, technical debt governance, secure-by-design controls and continuous improvement across the engineering teams delivering the platform. The role also promotes the responsible adoption of AI-enabled engineering capabilities to improve productivity, quality, automation and knowledge reuse while ensuring appropriate governance, security and compliance controls. The role ensures network engineering outcomes are measurable, compliant, resilient and aligned to GSK's strategy, operating model and business priorities.     Key Responsibilities: Set and govern platform engineering standards  • Define and maintain platform-specific engineering principles, golden paths, coding/configuration standards, quality gates and reusable patterns.  • Embed secure-by-design, regulatory, privacy, resilience and GxP-aware controls into engineering practices where applicable.  • Define guardrails for the appropriate use of AI-assisted engineering tools, ensuring code, configuration, documentation and operational outputs remain secure, explainable, compliant and subject to appropriate human review.  • Ensure standards are practical, adopted and evidenced through delivery pipelines, governance forums and supplier ways of working.    Govern delivery quality across the platform's engineering teams  • Hold suppliers and internal engineering teams accountable for consistent engineering discipline, quality evidence and adherence to agreed patterns.  • Operate engineering governance using clear metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, test coverage, defect escape rate, SLO attainment and technical debt trends.  • Provide escalation, challenge and assurance when engineering quality, resilience, security or operability standards are not met.    Drive modern engineering capability, automation and continuous improvement  • Improve engineering productivity through DevEx, AI-assisted engineering, automation, reusable assets, inner sourcing and reduction of manual toil, including practical use cases such as code generation, documentation, test automation, incident analysis and engineering knowledge management.  • Partner with Platform Management, Platform Architecture, Reliability Engineering, Operations Excellence, Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture and the Automation Acceleration team to ensure engineering practices support end-to-end platform outcomes.  • Build engineering capability across internal teams and suppliers through coaching, communities of practice, standards adoption and structured knowledge transfer.      Why You! We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience gained in a senior technology engineering role.  • Significant experience leading network engineering in a large enterprise environment.  • Proven experien