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Job Description

About the role:

At Takeda, we are a forward-looking, world-class R&D organization that unlocks innovation and delivers transformative therapies to patients. By focusing R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas and other targeted investments, we push the boundaries of what is possible in order to bring life-changing therapies to patients worldwide.

Join Takeda as a Senior JavaScript Engineer - Digital Product Development where you will be tasked with designing and iterating a data ecosystem to provide scientists and business leaders with the right data, and to help ask the right questions, at the right time. You will be working alongside lab SME, Data Engineering, and the Emerging Technologies team to help digitize our process development, analytical development, and manufacturing workflows and enable cross-functional access to data.

You will be working with the Cell Therapy Process Development team and will be a qualified DD&T leader to drive CMC digitalization technologies and endpoints across Takeda pipeline and platform activities. You will report to Head, Digital Solutions & Applied Informatics.

How you will contribute:

• Apply advanced techniques to complex data science challenges in R&D and other organizations.

• Work directly with Data Science teams in R&D at Takeda along with other advanced analytics organizations across the company.

• Work directly with lab Scientists to understand and develop solutions for capturing, handling, and reporting of experimental data

• Apply advanced techniques in structured, partly structured, and unstructured data across different partner organizations. 

• Implement solutions for difficult-to-structure data sets.

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of modern data technologies and explore new platforms and beta tooling.

• Independently use your judgment to identify data requirements and iterate and expand the ecosystem design.

• Influence new computer science platforms to design, analyze, and implement complex and new data-driven solutions that impact the company.

• Provide leadership to complex data analysis, use and explore data, languages, tools, and software to best construct data for predictive modeling, test the model, and train data to deploy the modeling within a complex R&D, Medical, Mathematical environment and a large complexity of IT systems and data.

• Interface and manage technical development team to development fit for purpose digital solutions.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or similar/applicable field or equivalent experience.

• 6+ years experience as a software engineer OR 2+ years experience as a tech lead/engineering manager on a team delivering frontend code.

• Expertise with one or more modern Javascript frameworks (React, Vue, AngularJS).

• Experience with Node.js.

• Experience leading projects and managing requirements with non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience with data visualization.

• Benefit to have experience with concepts of Graph Data and metadata storage (AWS Nep-tune, Apache Jena Fuseki)

• Benefit to have experience with: Clojure, ClojureScript, Python.

• Benefit to have direct experience working in Cell Therapy and/or Mammalian Biology labs.

• Benefit to have experience working in Process Development or Manufacturing environments

• Benefit to have experience working with the AWS ecosystem.

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.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

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Locations

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time