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Principal P&C Platform Architect - M365

GSK
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Full-time
Senior
Hybrid
Discovered 4 days ago
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Skills

  • Cloud Computing, Container Orchestration, Data Center Management, DevOps, Disaster Recovery (DR), Identity Access Management (IAM), Information Technology (IT) Risk Management, Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), Network Design, Serverless Platforms, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Storage Area Network (SAN), System Monitors, Technical Architecture, Technical Architecture Design, Virtualization, Zero Trust Architecture
  • Why GSK?
  • Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
  • GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive.
  • We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
  • People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
  • GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
  • We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
  • Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us at [email protected] where you can also request a call.
  • Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the Link where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive
  • Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
  • GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
  • Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent demonstrable professional expertise.
  • Significant experience in IT infrastructure, collaboration or digital workplace technology, including a number of years in a principal, lead or enterprise architect capacity with recognised design authority.
  • Architecture ownership for a Microsoft 365 tenant of 20,000+ users across multiple countries and regulatory jurisdictions.
  • Expert-level, hands-on-derived command of the core M365 workloads — Exchange Online, SharePoint Online/OneDrive, Teams — and the Entra ID and Purview controls that govern them. Sufficient to build the reference configuration personally, not only to specify it.
  • Demonstrable ownership of an enterprise information governance and external sharing model, including the compliance rationale behind it.
  • Advanced PowerShell and Microsoft Graph portfolio; evidence of configuration-as-code applied to a production tenant.
  • Working fluency in M365 security architecture and zero-trust principles, with a track record of co-designing controls alongside a Cyber Security function.
  • Led the architecture of at least one large-scale collaboration platform migration or transformation through to production — including what went wrong and what was learned.
  • Experience owning or materially influencing a Microsoft licensing position at enterprise scale (EA/MCA), including SKU strategy and cost optimisation.
  • Able to produce architecture documentation of a standard that withstands external audit and supplier scrutiny.
  • Proven credibility with both senior engineers and executive stakeholders, in English, in a global matrixed organisation.
  • Willingness to travel internationally, approximately 5–15% of the time.
  • Cloud Computing, Container Orchestration, Data Center Management, DevOps, Disaster Recovery (DR), Identity Access Management (IAM), Information Technology (IT) Risk Management, Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), Network Design, Serverless Platforms, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Storage Area Network (SAN), System Monitors, Technical Architecture, Technical Architecture Design, Virtualization, Zero Trust Architecture
  • Why GSK?
  • Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
  • GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive.
  • We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
  • People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
  • GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
  • We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
  • Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us at [email protected] where you can also request a call.
  • Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the Link where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive
  • Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
  • GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
  • Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/

Preferred Qualifications

  • Relevant certifications such as Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert, Cybersecurity Architect Expert, Identity and Access Administrator, Teams Administrator Expert, Power Platform Solution Architect Expert, Information Protection and Compliance Administrator, TOGAF, CISSP.
  • Experience in a regulated industry — pharmaceutical, life sciences, biotech, financial services or healthcare — with practical GxP/CSV/CSA, Annex 11 / 21 CFR Part 11, and validated-collaboration-system exposure.
  • Works Council and employee-representation engagement in European jurisdictions — particularly around productivity telemetry, Viva Insights and AI features.
  • Records management and archiving at enterprise scale, including third-party archive platforms and journaling.
  • Teams Phone / voice architecture — Direct Routing, Operator Connect, PSTN migration from legacy telephony.
  • Viva suite architecture — Connections, Engage, Learning, Insights — including the privacy design that makes Insights acceptable.
  • Leading a major platform transformation: on-premises to cloud migration, tenant consolidation, or M&A integration/divestment of an M365 tenant.
  • Third-party collaboration platform rationalisation — Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace, Box, Dropbox coexistence or retirement.
  • Enterprise application integration — SaaS integration patterns with M365, iPaaS, API management, and the identity implications of each.
  • Accessibility designed into the collaboration experience rather than remediated after complaint.
  • FinOps for SaaS — licence optimisation, chargeback/showback models, and true-up negotiation support.
  • Contribution to the wider community — open-source tooling, conference speaking, published technical writing, Microsoft customer advisory boards or MVP status.
  • Deep technical breadth across the M365 workload estate and the Entra ID / Purview controls that govern it, with the judgement to know where tenant-wide standardisation matters and where a business exception is defensible.
  • Advanced PowerShell and Microsoft Graph API fluency — including delta queries, permissions and app-only auth patterns — plus at least one general-purpose language (Python, C#) applied to real automation.
  • Telemetry and reporting craft — M365 usage analytics, Graph Data Connect, Log Analytics/KQL, Power BI — designing measurement into the platform from day one.
  • Architectural discipline — reference designs, ADRs, HLD/LLD, written clearly enough that engineers can build from them and external auditors can accept them.
  • Trade-off reasoning — collaboration velocity vs. information risk, capability vs. licence cost, standardisation vs. business exception; comfortable quantifying the uncomfortable option.
  • Scale intuition — designing for 50,000 users, terabyte-scale content estates, tenant-wide blast radius, and the long tail of exceptions that always exists.
  • Technical leadership without authority — landing decisions across engineering, security, legal, privacy, HR and vendors through credibility and evidence.
  • Executive communication — making platform architecture legible and decision-ready for non-technical leadership.
  • Constructive challenge — able to disagree with a Director, Microsoft, or a security architect and keep the relationship intact.
  • Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 1st November 2026 (COB)
  • Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.
  • When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.
  • During the course of your application, you will be requested to complete voluntary information which will be used in monitoring the effectiveness of our equality and diversity policies. Your information will be treated as confidential and will not be used in any part of the selection process. If you require a reasonable adjustment to the application / selection process to enable you to demonstrate your ability to perform the job requirements, please contact 0808 234 4391. This will help us to understand any modifications we may need to make to support you throughout our selection process.
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