Director of Program Management, Data Assets

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The Onyx Research Data Tech organization is GSK’s Research data ecosystem which has the capability to bring together, analyze, and power the exploration of data at scale. We partner with scientists across GSK to define and understand their challenges and develop tailored solutions that meet their needs. The goal is to ensure scientists have the right data and insights when they need it to give them a better starting point for and accelerate medical discovery. Ultimately, this helps us get ahead of disease in more predictive and powerful ways.

Onyx Is a Full-stack Shop Consisting Of Product And Portfolio Leadership, Data Engineering, Infrastructure And DevOps, Data / Metadata / Knowledge Platforms, And AI/ML And Analysis Platforms, All Geared Toward

• Building a next-generation, metadata- and automation-driven data experience for GSK’s scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on “data mechanics”
• Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent
• Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time
  
  

Oversight of the program of work is key to successful execution of this mission. The Onyx Portfolio Management team is accountable for defining, building, and executing on our internal processes for agile planning and delivery across our entire portfolio. They ensure that the leadership of the Onyx organization and key partners / stakeholders have a transparent view into our overall progress, and that issues / blockers / misalignments are raised early before they become major problems. They partner with our product and engineering leadership to ensure our overall ways of working, including software delivery, are best-in-class and set us up for success.

This role is accountable for leading the Program team that supports all data asset initiatives with program/project management needs, ensuring quality in internal standard ways of working including appropriate documentation, resource tracking and capacity planning to ensure successful program/project delivery. The incumbent partners with the Onyx LT members and associated Engineering and Product Managers to devise and execute realistic, achievable and high-quality plans to deliver Onyx data assets. A director is expected to consistently deliver major solutions with cross-organizational impact and value, lead a team of leaders, set direction/objectives, manage delivery, and develop talent. They are also a technical expert in their area and serves as 'architect' within their scope.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit, build, lead, develop, and retain a team of high-quality Program Managers that support key data asset deliverables
• Member of the Portfolio Leadership team; set objectives and manage performance in conjunction with Engineering and Product
• Standard bearer (with other Program Directors) for proper ways of working, program discipline, and process improvement
• Overall responsibility for the management and delivery of data asset projects and programs within scope, time and budget which may dynamically evolve to reflect change in customer needs or business constraints. Identify critical path items, milestones and interdependencies. Act as the capacity and resourcing manager for allocation of Program Manager and Engineering resources to support delivery across projects. Analyze the impact of changes in existing projects or addition of new projects and identify strategies (resources allocation/project sequencing) for accomplishing all desired projects.
• Responsible for ensuring that business needs represented by the Product team are translated by the Program team into delivery plans that are achievable and agreed upon by relevant stakeholders. This also includes supporting overviews of portfolio progress to senior leaders and appropriate governance boards.
• Ensure successful execution of agile sprint ceremonies, project tracking/reporting and managing backlogs with Product Managers. This includes a single view of each project within the portfolio of work and their interdependencies, establishing effective OKRs, robust documentation and project value tracking.
• Partner with Onyx Engineering leads and Product Managers to implement good project management discipline (tools and process) across all assigned product deliverables, including use of Jira, Confluence, and similar productivity software.
• Exercise good risk management practices and act as a triage point for escalation to the Onyx LT. Additionally, partner with Tech and partners in R&D to ensure that interdependencies are well understood and that all ingredients needed to understand complex multi-organizational work are brought together and presented as a whole.
• Define appropriate tracking measures and build automated, comprehensive, and meaningful reports/dashboards; synthesize data and insights from across a project or program of work to support teams in making informed tactical and strategic decisions.
  
  

Why you?

Basic Qualifications

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT Program Management, Data Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline or equivalent work experience in Data engineering.
• 8 years job-related experience with a proven track record of delivering data assets and/or data platforms.
• 5 years experience in Agile program/project management, including the use of associated tools such as Jira and Confluence
• 3 years experience of building and managing high-functioning program/project management teams
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience with Data Engineering and/or Data Platform technology and teams is highly preferred
• Demonstrated comfort operating and leading across organizational boundaries a matrixed team