Consumer Architect/Technical Lead

Consumer Architect/Technical Lead GSK Consumer Health has ambition to be the world's leading pure play Consumer Healthcare company. The relationship between wellness and technology is deepening as a digitally native generation look for new ways to empower themselves and their wellbeing. To win in this dynamic marketplace, we must serve the needs of our consumers in our local markets better than the competition. We have a fantastic opportunity to improve the scale of our global brands, building consistent global brand equities and strong global share positions. On both our local and global brands, we need to build highly locally relevant, consumer centric brand programmed and act on relevant opportunities as they arise, for first mover advantage. The fast-paced world translates into consumers demanding market specific products that reflect local requirements. The Consumer & Customer Tech Enablement Product Family is focused on creating products that will drive growth for Consumer Healthcare brands and categories across the globe, and this role will be responsible for leading, creating and delivering the product for value to the "consumer persona". The Consumer Architecture and Integration is responsible for why, when and what of suite of products to be delivered, leading their teams to deliver the best possible, highest quality, products that users will love using and deliver clear business value. The products will be across:Content & Commerce and will include Digital Asset Management, Product Information Systems, e-commerce, websites/apps, consumer experiences and Technical Frameworks that go along with them. This role will provide/gives YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following... * Technical Architecture: Related to the tech platform / stack piece, we would look for the ideal candidate to assist in CMS Architecture, Solutions to assist DtC initiatives and Integration patterns that will give this platform the best chance to succeed in the commercial environment and ensure that we can continue to leverage and scale the tech stack for additional and future initiatives. * Forward Looking: Additional responsibilities include evaluating and recommending emerging technologies and standards. Keep abreast of industry developments in analytics and be able to interpret how these would impactservices and present new opportunities. * We also envision this architect to work closely with the enterprise GSK platforms team on architecture and platform provisioning activities. * Business Value Impact: The role is rare in that the scope for you to make an impact is very real and you will interface significantly with senior colleagues across the company in the Commercial Business & in the digital business including product development and new product introduction.This is an excellent time to be joining a highly successful market leader in the healthcare industry and drive significant technology change across the organization. Why you? We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: If you have the following characteristics, then you would be ideal for this role: * Solid experience as a Solution Architect within an entrepreneurial and fast-moving environment where working with concepts and inspiring product teams is critical to success * Experience in architecture definition and technical leadership in a broad range of solutions that impact consumers and marketing teams which can include internal tools to external products that consumers engage with * Extensive experience with integration of software solutions in enterprise IT * Experience in project management or technical team lead position, excellent understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), software development processes and Agile/SCRUM * Experience with and good understanding of enterprise applications at least in one of the following technology areas: high-performance, highly-transactional web applications, mobile development, content management solutions, e-commerce solutions, e-business frameworks or business intelligence * Experience in technology architecture of consumer persona, around content & commerce, media tech, and consumer relations. * Understanding Security and Data Privacy Standards and Designs * Ability to work in close partnership with other IT functions such as IT security, compliance, infrastructure, etc. as well as partner closely with business stakeholders in the commercial and digital organizations. * Able to gain trust with clients and take their projects to the next level * Strong communication skills both written and verbal Your Qualifications: We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals * MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Design or equivalent experience, with weighting on experience and proven track record preferred. * Great experience as an architect (platform, solution