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Platform Engingeer

Boston, Massachusetts

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On the Global Manufacturing and Supply (GMS) team at Takeda, you’ll be part of a rapidly transforming industry that’s applying technology and data in new ways. Within our agile, innovative, people-centric organization, your work will matter every day as you use your skills to help us manufacture therapies for patients on our four platforms:

Small Molecules
Biologics
Plasma
Cell and Gene

As part of the GMS team, you'll have the opportunity to pursue unique experiences and build new skills, and you'll know that the work you do every day makes an impact — on our patients, our people, our planet, and on yourself.

Job ID R0152023 Date posted 05/16/2025 Location Boston, Massachusetts

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Job Description

Pursuant to Section 20 C.F.R. 656.10, you are hereby notified that an application for Alien Employment Certification will be filed by Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. for the following job opportunity:

JOB LOCATION: Cambridge, MA

POSITION: Platform Engineer

POSITION DESCRIPTION: Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer with the following duties: Build and maintain platform capabilities using selected products and services to enhance manufacturing efficiency and data quality; Design and develop core infrastructure components such as networking, storage, and compute resources to support platform functionality; Write and support code for user authentication, database management, and infrastructure as code to ensure scalability; Collaborate with application and product development teams to optimize platform performance for application workloads; Develop and maintain a full stack developer platform, offering standardized and reusable tools and services for engineering teams; Implement Quality by Design principles to ensure platform reliability, availability, and security; Enable data analytics capabilities, including real-time and predictive analytics, in a GxP environment; Drive technical issue identification and problem-solving, escalating as necessary to ensure timely resolution; Ensure adherence to company policies and documentation standards in alignment with Takeda Quality Management Systems; Support the DevOps strategy to create a self-service platform with automated infrastructure and operations, enhancing developer experience; Define and measure quality aspects of the platform, setting appropriate targets in collaboration with platform management and SRE teams; up to 10% international and domestic travel required; up to 60% remote work allowed.

REQUIREMENTS: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Analytics or related field plus 5 years of related experience. Prior experience must include: Enable data analytics capabilities, including real-time and predictive analytics, in a GxP environment; Collaborate with application and product development teams to optimize platform performance for application workloads; Drive technical issue identification and problem-solving, root cause analysis as necessary to ensure timely resolution; Design and develop core infrastructure components such as networking, database storage, and compute resources to support platform functionality; Implement Quality by Design principles to ensure application reliability, availability and security.

Full time. $150,000 - $220,600 per year. Competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualified applicants can apply at https://jobs.takeda.com. Please reference job #R0152023. EOE

Any individual may provide documentary evidence bearing on this application, with information on available workers and information on wages and working conditions, to the Certifying Officer, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Foreign Labor Certification, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room N-5311, Washington, DC 20210.

Locations

Boston, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

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