Senior Product Owner - Cloud & Engineering Platforms

At GSK, we unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We are a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We’re proud to be leading a healthcare revolution, and we’re looking for people who can help us deliver on our ambition.

Role Overview

The Senior Product Owner - Cloud owns the backlog and roadmap for the Cloud platform, and all Cloud services translating what GSK teams need into prioritised work and maximising the value the platform delivers to the teams that consume it. The role works daily with engineering to deliver increments and accept completed work, links every backlog item to strategy and OKRs, and measures adoption and outcome rather than output. Products span cloud, network, digital workplace and AI Hub domains, and the specific product is set on appointment.

The role sits inside the platform team and holds genuine product decision rights over backlog order and acceptance. Platform strategy and the multi-year roadmap sit with the Platform Manager, domain demand and sequencing sit with the Domain Portfolio Manager, technical design and standards sit with the Platform Architect, and the reliability bar sits with Reliability Engineering. This is an insourced role under the DPTF sourcing decisions, so it is not delivered through a managed service partner.

In this role you will

- Own and prioritise the product backlog by value, risk and reliability, applying lean portfolio principles rather than fixed project plans.

- Link every backlog item explicitly to GSK D&T strategy and domain OKRs, and measure the outcome with a named metric.

- Translate consumer needs and business outcomes into clear requirements and user stories that engineering can act on without further interpretation.

- Work daily with the engineering team through refinement, planning and review, and accept completed increments against agreed criteria.

- Balance new capability against the reliability bar, agreeing SLOs and error budget impact with Reliability Engineering before committing to work.

- Use AI tooling to accelerate discovery, backlog refinement and requirement drafting, and record where AI-assisted output has been reviewed before acceptance.

- Measure product adoption, self-service uptake and value delivered, and iterate the roadmap on that evidence rather than on stakeholder volume.

- Steer delivery with flow metrics such as throughput, cycle time and work in progress, and act on them rather than reporting them.

- Manage consumer demand and stakeholder expectations, saying no with a reason where an item does not compete on value.

- Manage supplier-delivered components within the product, holding partners to the same acceptance criteria and reliability standards as internal work.

- Contribute the product view into the domain roadmap held by the Platform Manager and the portfolio view held by the Domain Portfolio Manager.

- Hold the boundaries with the Platform Manager on platform strategy, the Platform Architect on technical design and standards, and Reliability Engineering on the reliability bar.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications :

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

- Degree in a technology, engineering or business discipline, or equivalent practical experience (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering).
- Strong experience (typically around 5 years) in product ownership or product management, including experience owning a backlog in a platform or infrastructure context.
- Experience delivering Cloud Services as a Product Owner or equivalent member of an Agile team
- Practical experience of lean or agile backlog management, including prioritisation by value and risk rather than by request order.
- Experience using Jira or a similar backlog management tool.
- Track record of translating business needs into requirements that engineering teams could deliver without repeated clarification.
- Experience working to OKRs and measuring adoption or value delivered rather than features shipped.
- Experience steering with flow metrics and acting on delivery predictability data.
- Experience managing stakeholders and declining requests with a defensible reason.

Preferred Skills :

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

- Agile or product certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager).
- Certifications in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals)
- Knowledge of cloud cost methodology (FinOps).
- Knowledge of Pharma practices, GxP, Validation, Audit readiness and how to optimize delivery to accommodate these critical practices
- Exposure to AI tooling used for discovery, backlog refinement or requirement drafting.

Other Job-Related Skills/Background:

- Decisiveness on backlog order, including the confidence to sequence against value rather than seniority of the requester.
- Clear written communication, since requirements and acceptance criteria are the role's primary output.
- Enough technical literacy to challenge engineering estimates and understand reliability trade-offs.
- Comfort with data as the basis for roadmap change rather than stakeholder pressure.
- Collaborative habit with architecture and reliability colleagues who can veto on standards grounds.

Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 1st November 2026 (COB)

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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.

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.

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