Senior Lead - Architecture Governance

About the Team:

Enterprise Systems is the backbone of GSK’s internal operations in Digital & Tech, enabling GSK Global Functions teams such as Finance, Procurement, HR, Legal, Compliance, WREF, CGA and Corporate Secretariat to run seamlessly. This team designs and delivers cutting-edge digital platforms that power critical processes, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and scalability across the enterprise.

Enterprise Systems Management & Business Operations delivers digital solutions that support Enterprise Systems running as a high-performing organisation. This team drives financial discipline, operational rigour and strategic alignment across the ES portfolio that safeguard GSK’s integrity and reputation globally. By joining this team, you’ll help shape systems that support thousands of employees worldwide, driving innovation and reliability in the tools that keep GSK moving forward.

Job Purpose:
Lead the Architecture Strategy and Governance Office and provide product ownership for the Architecture Governance Platform across Global Supply Chain (GSC). Establish and operate consistent governance that enables timely, transparent and well-informed architecture decisions while maintaining standards, decision records, exceptions and compliance visibility. Connect architects, product teams, programmes and senior stakeholders through effective review forums, workflows, reporting and communications. Continuously improve governance processes and tools, drive adoption across GSC, and provide the insight and traceability needed to manage architecture risk and align technology delivery with GSC strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as Product Owner for the Architecture Governance Platform, including its vision, roadmap, priorities and adoption.
• Coordinate and facilitate the GSC Architecture Review Board and related governance activities, while managing architecture intake, review, approval, decision-making, and exception processes to ensure effective architectural oversight and governance.
• Maintain architecture decision logs, Architecture Decision Records and governance repositories.
• Define, document and continuously improve architecture governance processes, standards and working practices.
• Track compliance with architecture principles, standards, approved decisions and agreed exceptions.
• Develop governance metrics, dashboards and reporting that provide visibility of demand, decisions, risks and process effectiveness.
• Train architects, product teams and stakeholders on governance processes, accountabilities and tools.
• Drive adoption and effective use of architecture governance capabilities across GSC.
• Lead architecture communications, knowledge management and stakeholder engagement for the governance office.
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology (IT), Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Technology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in architecture governance, enterprise architecture, technology governance, process management, or product ownership.
• Experience in coordinating architecture review boards or comparable governance forums.
• Experience in managing workflow platforms, decision records, standards, compliance reporting, or governance repositories.
• Experience in designing and improving processes, measures, dashboards, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience in facilitating senior stakeholders and supporting the adoption of new governance practices across a large, multi-stakeholder organisation.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in enterprise architecture, Technology Management, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or an equivalent architecture certification.
• Agile Product Owner or Scrum certification.
• Experience in governance workflows, portfolio management tools, or enterprise architecture management tools.
• Experience in process design, continuous improvement, and analytical analysis.
• Experience in developing metrics, dashboards, training materials, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience in facilitation, stakeholder engagement, written communication, and delivering presentations.
• Experience in managing governance operations while maintaining alignment with strategic outcomes.

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Skills

API Management, Automation Technology, Cloud Architectures, Cloud Financial Operations, Containerization, Database Management, DevOps, Disaster Recovery (DR), Edge Computing, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Networking Concepts, Performance Optimizations, Serverless Computing, System Monitors, Virtualization

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.

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