Director Network Engineering

Overview

In this role you drive the engineering governance and standards for GSK’s network platform, spanning local and wide area networks, wireless and security. You’ll own the platform’s engineering management system, including quality, automation, and secure-by-design controls, while promoting AI-enabled productivity with proper governance. You will ensure measurable, compliant, and resilient outcomes aligned to GSK strategy and business priorities. This is a hands-on leadership role shaping cross-functional platform delivery and capability building.

Pay / Benefits

• learning and development opportunities
• hybrid working pattern
• central London HQ on-site presence
• team-oriented culture
• purpose-driven impact on healthcare

Responsibilities

• Set and govern platform engineering standards with principles, golden paths, quality gates and reusable patterns
• Embed secure-by-design, regulatory, privacy, resilience and GxP-aware controls into engineering practices
• Define guardrails for AI-assisted engineering tools ensuring security, explainability and human review
• Ensure standards are adopted and evidenced through delivery pipelines and governance forums
• Govern delivery quality across platform engineering teams and suppliers with clear metrics
• Provide escalation and assurance when quality, resilience, security or operability standards are not met
• Drive modern engineering capability through automation, AI-assisted engineering and reusable assets
• Partner with Platform Management, Platform Architecture, Reliability Engineering, Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture and Automation teams
• Build engineering capability through coaching, communities of practice and knowledge transfer

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical discipline
• Significant experience leading network engineering in a large enterprise
• Proven experience setting engineering standards, governance mechanisms and quality expectations across multiple teams or suppliers
• Experience governing delivery quality across suppliers without duplicating supplier management accountability
• Experience applying DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation, observability, SLOs, release governance and reliability practices
• Experience influencing senior technology stakeholders and translating data into actionable improvement actions
• Strong knowledge across local and wide area networks, wireless, security, automation and observability

• Influencing senior stakeholders
• Strong communication and documentation
• Commitment to continuous learning and modern engineering practices
• DevSecOps
• CI/CD
• Observability

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