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Job description
Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? join us as the head of scientific product engineering .
As disruptive forces change the face of healthcare, takeda has a new role to playWe are taking a giant step forward to create a future-ready organization that evolves at the speed of science and technology, to meet the needs of patients by seeking and incorporating novel digital capabilities, data, and agile methodologiesThis means we need to obsessively focus on the end patient, collaborate within takeda and across the healthcare ecosystem to unlock the power of data, empower our people through the democratization of technology and channel the power of our people to push the boundaries of what we think is possible.
Objectives/purpose
Manage a global team of product engineers responsible for all engineering activities in the associated function including cloud platforms, tools, and product apis.
Define engineering and platform strategy to be used to develop products within the functionExtend and maintain the overall engineering strategy in the context of new developments in the field.
Assign resources to product teams to both perform agile development with fungible resources and, where appropriate, be persistent project team members.
Identify new technologies both for use in product development and in the areas of platforms and tools, including aws.
Ensures products are secure, use modern deployment techniques and functional apisAlso track end of life components and transitions vs future state progress against a product portfolio
Accountabilities
Manages product engineering team and associated sub-teams assigning resources to support product teams on an as needed basis.
Influence technical direction with the enterprise architecture and other technical teams where appropriate determines strategic technical direction for engineering initiatives including platformsIdentifies and proposes new technology acquisitions in the context of business problems
Communicating with project stakeholders to better understand their needs and requirements (ui, ux, data management) and translating these into actionable technical solutions.
Provided technical and team leadership through coaching and mentorship
Determines technical product development approaches, use different technologies, patterns and design methods along with modern scripted deployment techniques to rapidly and iteratively deliver on product development and enhancements.
Provide leadership working through on complex problems with members of the team.
Understanding how to translate process, ux, usability and operational feedback into technical designs, roadmaps and implementation
Design & deploy complex system and products to business demands to quickly deliver value while maintaining a forward-looking, global technology base.
Follow bi-model methodology (agile, waterfall or other where appropriate) in building roadmaps and designing & deploying systems.
Ensures up-to-date enterprise architecture records/repository, lifecycle management, and roadmap definition for applications / technologies
Ensures the adoption of guidelines and standards including compliance and security, in the capability
Communicates, influences and promotes cross-domain use of capabilities ensuring that products and their components are well architected, documented and implemented with modern architectures, microservice based api’s able to participate with other products, platforms and expose data in the product ecosystem.
Core elements related to this role
Strategic selection of appropriate technologies and platforms for products and capabilities within their area with a view towards fitting in with and supporting the wider technology framework in r&d it and enterprise it
Coordinate across technical leaders, product engineers, architects, data engineers and others in product lines as well as broader technology and architecture teams in the product and enterprise ecosystem.
Manage assignment of resources to support an agile, product-based, approach to system and product development
Identify, test and, where appropriate, incorporate leading edge engineering and platform technologies
Dimensions and aspects
Work independently on tough problems with other team members and independently solve, with some guidance, very difficult technology problems.
Maintains up-to-data knowledge on modern technologies, explores new platforms and systems.
In depth understanding of processes within their domain be that general engineering, platform technologies or specific scientific capabilities.
Expertise in product, system and data engineering and architecture
Leadership (vision, strategy and business alignment, people management, communication, influencing others, managing change)
Responsible for strategy development in the context of wider it stakeholders
Manage the engineering team and sub teams including recruitment, retooling and development of staff
Technology scouting and championing
Works collaboratively with product managers, technical leads and capability heads to ensures optimal implementation and coordiantion with other products in the product ecosystem both within and beyond a particular capability
Decision-making and autonomy (the capacity and authority to make organizational decisions, autonomy in decision-making, complexity of decisions, impact of decisions, problem-solving)
Ability to work through and propose proper technology choices to determine what technology and methods can be combined for the optimal result on an ever-changing product landscape.
Ability to choose correct tactical technology and method directions in their productsThis includes the ability to test viability of new methods and know when to move forward or stop
Manage team independently in the context of the larger organization, responsible for identifying and assigning resources to products and initiatives.
Collaborate on budgeting both in the engineering team and relating to the cost impacts to other teams and functions
Interaction (the span and nature of one’s engagement with others when performing one’s job, internal and external relationships)
Architecture, data engineering and product engineering teams
R&d it business partners and leadership
Product teams with a focus on product managers and technical leads
Innovation (the required level of scientific knowledge, knowledge sharing, innovation and risk taking)
Ability to understand complex problems and be able to apply modern technology patterns to them.
Ability to influence technical directions both internally to appled product solutionsIdentifying novel engineering technologies, tools and platforms.
Ability to iterate and innovate as they apply modern product techniques while fostering an environment that encourages applied innovation
Understanding of r&d processes and ability to work closely with technical members in r&d it to identify innovative technologies that solve real problems experienced by stakeholders
Complexity (products managed, mix of businesses, internal and/or external business environment, cultural considerations)
Ability to distill complex product feedback into actionable strategies, implementations and stable depoyments
Ability to adapt to an agile time-based delivery team operate within a traditional project and waterfall-based funding and approval cycles.
Drive engineering from feedback and scouting, to efficiently support and facilitate road mapping, technical design, implementation and deployment
Education, behavioural competencies and skills:
Required
Bachelor degree or equivalent in scientific, informatics, computer science or related discipline.
8+ years of experience in design, architecture and engineering of products and/or systems, minimum of 5 years in the life sciences or pharmaceutical industries
Experience working in modern development using modern api’s, microservices and component-based systems.
Experience delivering architectural documentation and implementation against saas, iaas or development projects.
Experience with aws, angularjs, html5, css3, java/j2ee, javascript, spring mvc, mongodb, aws, python/python flask,
Git, tomcat, docker, elasticsearch.
Strong interpersonal and communications skills
Ability to work in an agile and rapid changing environment with high quality deliverables
Preferred
Master degree.
5+ years managing teams, experience in managing global teams remotely
Experience working in r&d and / or biotech
Effective november 1, 2021, absent an approved religious or medical reason, all us office-based and lab-based takeda employees who work fully on-site or in a hybrid model (as determined by takeda) must be fully vaccinated to work at a takeda site or to engage with takeda colleagues or anyone else on behalf of takedaAs of the same date, absent an approved religious or medical reason, us field-based employees, employees must be fully vaccinated in order to continue in their current rolesUs employees who work at a takeda manufacturing facility, and those who work at a biolife center or biolife lab, may be subject to different guidelinesCandidates are encouraged to speak with their recruiter to seek further information on the applicable guidelines for the business unit/function for which they have applied.
This job posting excludes co applicants
Eeo statement
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Locations
Boston, ma
Worker type
Employee
Worker sub-type
Regular
Time type
Full time
