PDT DDT Solutions Design Lead

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Job Description

About the role:

Plasma-derived therapies are critical, life-saving medicines, which patients with rare and complex diseases around the world rely on every day. Global demand for these therapies, particularly immunoglobulins, has increased dramatically over the last 15 years, and continues to grow. Takeda is established as second largest provider of plasma-derived therapies (PDT) globally. Leveraging on 75 year pioneering legacy, Takeda believes there is tremendous potential to do more to meet expectations of patients and health care providers with plasma-derived therapies for patients with immunologic, hematologic, autoimmune and other complex diseases.

PDT’s mission is to transform the lives of patients through innovation and sustainability from plasma donation to delivery of holistic plasma-derived therapeutic solutions. Data Digital & Technology (DDT) is a trusted PDT partner, transforming donor experience and patient lives through innovation and excellence. As a Solutions Design Lead, you will provide architecture leadership, design, and implementation oversight for solutions that ensure PDTs strategic initiatives driving growth and improved patient experience. You will be based in our Bannockburn, IL office and will report to the PDT DDT Design and Engineering Lead.

How you will contribute:

Develop enterprise-grade architectures that might include AWS cloud services, software programs, devices, network, database, integration middleware, and analytics infrastructure

Promote business transformation, process improvement, and productivity by catalyzing digital solutions empowering new levels of human-machine collaboration

Provide visionary technology recommendations in data, analytics, LLM, AI/ML platform and solutions with MLOps processes fast-tracking AI solutions at enterprise scale

Contribute to innovation strategies by exploring, investigating, recommending, bench-marking and implementing new data-centric technologies and solutions

Develop operational processes for data, real-time integration hub, and AI/ML infrastructure ensuring data security and compliance with regulations (e.g. GxPs)

Develop Activity Diagrams, Use Cases, Information Models, Data Flows, Sequence Diagrams to communicate technical specifications allowing the development team to build applications/products meeting both functional and non-functional requirements

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering or related field

At least 7 years of experience in solution architecture working on progressively complex projects

Experience in AI/ML technologies including developing production-grade solution

Experience establishing design principles, architecture standards with Takeda global technology strategy

Understanding of modern data and digital technologies including Big Data and data lake, BI and Data Warehousing, Data Integration, API and Microservices, ETL, Data Streaming and Real-time Analytics, Machine Learning/AI, LLM/LangChain, NLP, chatbots, RPA, and IoT

Proficient in Python, SQL, or other scripting languages; Databricks, ETL(Informatica), and Version Control (GitHub)

Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, cloud-native services, and related technologies from AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure

What Takeda can offer you:

Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, Dental, and Vision

Financial Planning & Stability: 401(k) with company match and Annual Retirement Contribution Plan

Health & Wellness programs including onsite flu shots and health screenings

Generous time off for vacation and the option to purchase additional vacation days

Community Outreach Programs and company match of charitable contributions

Family Planning Support

Flexible Ways of Working

Tuition reimbursement

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

This position is currently classified as “hybrid” in accordance with Takedas Hybrid and Remote Work policy.

In accordance with the CO Equal Pay Act, Colorado Applicants Are Not Permitted to Apply.

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Locations

Bannockburn, IL

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time