VP, Enterprise Data and AI Platform

The VP, Enterprise Data and AI Platform is a strategic leadership role responsible for overseeing the development, deployment, and operational excellence of comprehensive data and artificial intelligence platform at enterprise scale.

As a strategic leader, you will lead a team to architect, scale, and evolve an intelligent, composable platform that spans the full data-to-intelligence spectrum: from ingestion and analytics to ML, Gen AI, Agents, and beyond towards autonomous cognitive enterprise. This critical position is aligned with GSK's ongoing commitment to innovatively meet challenges and leverage opportunities posed by shifting market forces, evolving regulatory environments, changing business needs, and emerging developments in the Pharmaceutical industry.

Reporting to the CTO, you will serve as a key strategist and a trusted partner to the Enterprise AI organization to help shape and drive added value generation by using advancements in data and AI technologies and operating models.

GSK seeks a Data & AI leader to harness AI as a strategic advantage, driving insights, decision-making, and innovation across the enterprise. Your mission is to embed AI-native operations into every function and advance intelligence capabilities, positioning GSK as a leading, innovative, and trusted pharmaceutical company. GSK's strategy is to prevent and treat disease with specialty medicines, vaccines and general medicines with focus on the science of the immune system and advanced technologies - to impact health at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and articulate a compelling next-gen vision for the Enterprise Data/AI Platform and supporting roadmap spanning data ingestion, AI/ML, Gen AI, Agents, and Cognitive Systems, aligning with GSK's strategic goals and industry trends.
• Partner with Enterprise AI organization to transform GSK from insight-driven to goal-oriented enterprise, powered by AI-reasoned execution capabilities.
• Operationalize multi-agent orchestration, memory, tool management, reasoning engines, and goal-directed planning at scale.
• Embed AI-as-Infrastructure into the enterprise stack: moving from isolated ML services to ambient, autonomous intelligence.
• Keep the Data & AI platform perpetually current by envisoning and preparing for what's beyond Agents: multi-agent cognition, neurosymbolic reasoning, context-aware systems, and real-time adaptive learning.
• Implement core capabilities for self-improving agents, knowledge discovery engines, and semantic infrastructure.
• Champion intent-aware, multi-modal AI interfaces that shift from dashboards to conversational and assisted workflows.
• Drive platform features that learn from user behavior, business context, and system telemetry to improve continuously.
• Champion AI trust and safety, with dynamic oversight layers, AI ethics policies, and human-in-the-loop guardrails.
• Act as a recognized thought leader in AI/ML/Agents, proactively identifying and advocating for innovative AI solutions.
• Influence senior leadership and stakeholders to prioritize AI investments and initiatives, fostering an "Agent first" culture.
• Hire, develop and lead great technology professionals, including roles in data engineering, product management, data science, AI/ML, generative AI, agentic architecture, data/AI operations, and other related data analytics capabilities
• Manage multiple complex strategic initiatives, programs and projects that are broad in scope, interdependent, potentially high-risk, and deliver significant business value
• Foster a learning culture based on a growth mindset that is focused on continuous improvement, strong collaboration, and constant innovation with the end-user in mind
• Establish strategic partnerships with product vendors, external suppliers, research institutions, and stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive landscape to identify opportunities for innovation and growth
• Maintain external presence to represent GSK Tech externally to capture and report relevant tech intelligence and be a talent magnet to attract data, analytics, and AI talent to GSK

Basic Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• 15+ years of experience in enterprise technologies including data, AI, and cloud-scale product development gained within a large market cap organisation
• Experience leading platform product and engineering for modern AI stacks including ML pipelines, LLMs, Gen AI, and agent frameworks.
• Experience building multi-layered, cloud-native platforms in regulated or mission-critical environments
• Experience across lakehouse architectures, semantic graph models, MLOps/LLMOps/AgentOps, orchestration layers, and distributed systems.
• Experience with advanced AI technologies such as multi-agent systems, goal planning architectures, and semantic infrastructure.
• Experience managing global teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Data Science or related discipline would be preferred
• Significant experience in a senior-level role at a well-known large organizations preferably in the pharmaceutical industry
• Strong experience in leveraging an open source technology stack/environment
• Proven track record of building high-performing teams.
• Lead organizational development focused on transforming legacy thinking to growth mindset, driving innovative approaches, and delivering high-value capabilities
• Passion for innovation: a visionary and hands-on leader who stays ahead of research, translates breakthroughs into capability, and builds future-ready systems and teams.
• Demonstrate exceptional executive-level relationship building skills with strong ability to influence others
• Demonstrate excellent persuasion, negotiation, presentation and verbal communication skills

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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