Platform Engineering Lead, Shared Infrastructure Platform (all genders)

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Job Description

Takeda is a global, values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical leader committed to bringing better health and a brighter future to people worldwide. Our passion and pursuit of potentially life-changing treatments for patients are deeply rooted in over 240 years of heritage.

The Platform Engineering Lead for Shared Infrastructure Platform is an experienced leader who is capable of leading an engineering practice and team(s) across the end-to-end enablement lifecycle of AIDE (Agile, Infrastructure, Development and Engineering) platform capabilities (i.e. development, testing, release, validation, and support).

• Direct platform engineering team by establishing priorities aligned to committed objectives, then executing and monitoring progress towards platform engineering outcomes.
• Provide specialized knowledge and expertise in Shared Infrastructure platform engineering activities related to platform family.
• Ensure focus on platform engineering quality by adopting consistent development, testing, debugging and documenting practices for effective communication of capabilities.
• Accountable for overall platform capabilities engineering outcomes (i.e. implementation, development, testing, validation, maintenance), as well as management of development practices.
• Continuously drive improvements across platform performance while remaining accountable against identified KPIs and OKRs (i.e. Quality, Speed, Adoption, Costs).
• Execute activities based on Scaled Agile Framework PI Planning framework.
• Responsible for platform budgeting activities.
• Responsible for planning, managing, and measuring work.
• Responsible for managing and motivating team members.
• Responsible for management of vendor contracts, and capacity commitments.
• Responsible for Level 3 platform support and maintenance activities.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide leadership to the platform engineering team(s).
• Establish and maintain engineering governance structures and best practices for platforms.
• Responsible for financial planning, budgeting, procurement, and staffing for platform engineering team.
• Drive partnership with platform and Enterprise architecture teams to drive consistent design of platform capabilities.
• Contribute to platform architecture roadmap, in collaboration with platform owner, product manager, and platform architecture leads.
• Drive platform capabilities engineering development based on platform architecture roadmap.
• Lead and oversee platform engineering execution lifecycle (planning / scheduling / building / testing / deploying / documenting), and monitor progress to ensure that engineering activities are completed on time, on budget, and with proper engineering practices and quality processes.
• Own platform development and communicate how the platform is meeting the business priorities and goals of the organizations (business, technology, and marketing).
• Collaborate with other platforms managers or owners, GDD&T and business stakeholders to successfully ensure consistent development, integration, and maintenance of AIDE platforms.
• Continuously identify new technology platform capabilities for best fit purpose, and outline options for cost effective, incremental, and resilient implementation approach.
• Plan, coach, and support platform system demos in collaboration with product management leads, to communicate progress and value of AIDE platform capabilities being built.
• Manage level 3 engineering support for platforms.
• Provision, manage and maintain the software infrastructure that supports platforms.

CORE ELEMENTS RELATED TO THIS ROLE

• Lead engineering practice for AIDE platform(s).
• Experience in leadership of technology platforms and applications.
• Knowledge of Agile SAFe, ITSM v4, and well architected processes

DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS                  

Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise

• Knowledge of complex digital landscape across organizations and ability to bring experience of implementing leading technology and engineering capabilities to drive organizational sustainable improvements.
• Experience leading global teams leveraging Agile Scrum or SAFe ways of working methodologies.
• Ability to work on highly complex technology problems with other team members or independently driving group towards resolution.
• Ability to demonstrate advanced platform engineering tooling and techniques knowledge to other teams.
• Demonstrate up-to-date knowledge on modern platform technologies, and ability to explore quickly new platforms features.
• Familiarity with information management practices, regulatory requirements, and global data privacy laws, especially those that uniquely effect the pharmaceutical industry.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, and/or Management Information Systems from an accredited university or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of more experience with Agile methods / methodologies, and leading SCRUM / Lean / Kanban teams.
• 10+ years or more of relevant professional experience as a technology engineer, with 7+ years in a role managing platform teams.
• 7+ years of experience deploying infrastructure using private hosting solutions (compute / storage / networking - Cisco, Tintri, VMware required).
• 3+ years of experience using public cloud infrastructure (AWS or Azure required).
• Proven track record of getting things done in complex organizations.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Healthcare / life science / pharmaceutical industry experience required.
• Referenceable leadership, management, or key influencer experiences required.
• Ability to work in an agile and rapid changing environment with high quality deliverables.
• Previous experience managing global engineering teams and budgets required.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated presentation, communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to think outside the box for innovative engineering capabilities.
• Knowledge of information management practices, regulatory requirements and global data privacy laws related to the pharmaceutical industry.
• Proven knowledge of IT Service Management, Service Operations, and Service Release (ITIL v4 and ITSM).
• Working knowledge of DevOps CI/CD technologies and lifecycle.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Cloud IaaS and PaaS technology environments (AWS and Azure preferred).
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of micro-services concepts, API integration enablement, container technologies and services (Kubernetes based preferred).
• Proven experience with platform engineering automation lifecycle, leveraging infrastructure as code, configuration management, orchestration, modern patterns, APIs, and site reliability engineering concepts.
• Experience with scripted deployment process, tools, and lifecycle (i.e. Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python).

Preferred:

• Master’s (M.S.) degree or MBA from top US or International business school preferred.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement, and experience working with change management or internal communications team.
• Experience working with virtual / Agile teams in different locations, aligning and adapting different work, culture, and communication styles.
• Experience working in a lean and agile software delivery team model.
• Experience managing insourced or outsourced delivery teams as a virtual lead.

At Takeda, we earn the trust of society and our customers through our values of Takeda-ism: Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, Perseverance. We incorporate these values in everything we do. They represent who we are and how we act. They help us make decisions that we can be proud of today and in the future. We enable our employees to develop their full potential. As a global top employer, we offer exciting career paths, promote innovation, and strive for top performance in everything we do. Takeda fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and international work environment where our teams are united by their relentless commitment to our goal of improving people's health and creating a better future for the world.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

Takeda is committed to foster diversity, equality, and inclusion. Hiring decisions are based entirely on qualifications and are made regardless of gender, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

If you are interested in this opportunity, we look forward to receiving your application via our online tool!

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Locations

Zurich, Switzerland

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time