Head of Trial Data Technology - Alta Petens
Company: Takeda Pharmaceutical
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: May 12, 2022
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to the best of my knowledge.Job DescriptionAre you looking for a
patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you
and empower you to shine? Join us as Head of Trial Data Technology
- Alta Petens in our Cambridge office!At Takeda, we are
transforming the pharmaceutical industry through our R&D-driven
market leadership and being a values-led company. To do this, we
empower our people to realize their potential through life-changing
work. Certified as a Global Top Employer, we offer stimulating
careers, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in
everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace,
in which our global teams are united by an unwavering commitment to
deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the
world.Here, you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold
mission.OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE Takeda is advancing an exciting pipeline
and wants to ensure that we have the infrastructure and talent in
place to support it. Our overall goal is to ensure that we get our
therapeutics to patients quickly by having the right operational
model and integrated clinical data pipeline to support delivery.The
Head of Trial Data Technology is responsible for leading the
platforms, integrations, and technical operations of R&D's
clinical trial data program. The data program will include an
integrated data flow with end-to end control of data, will be
foundationally capable of enabling a high-degree of automation and
near-time data access and will readily incorporate disruptive
technologies that enables next-gen trial designs and insights. The
data program will encompass all systems, platforms, architecture,
and tools involved in the collection, processing, review and
analysis of clinical trial patient and operational data, including
high-dimensional data such as genomic, digital health and real
world data.DELIVERY & BUSINESS ACCOUNTABILITY The Head of Trial
Data Technology is expected to:
- Lead all technology- and platform-related aspects of the global
data program to support Takeda R&D's vision to create a
development engine and ecosystem that provides optimal clinical
data control and quality in a predictable, automated &
cost-effective way
- Lead the evolution of Takeda's infrastructure to meet current
and future R&D needs while maintaining appropriate congruency
with Takeda's enterprise data strategy and backbone
- Lead the development, implementation and maintenance of data
program architecture diagrams including application, integration,
deployment, dev ops and data
- Develop technical strategy and processes to manage an
ever-expanding data infrastructure and ETL pipelines
- Oversee all platform and systems integrations
- Leads team of architects and engineers to develop and automate
large scale, high-performance data storage and processing systems,
with connection to experimentation and machine learning
infrastructure
- Oversee operational team of data engineers responsible for
moving data through data pipeline
- Provide strategic vision for long-term delivery innovationCORE
ELEMENTS RELATED TO THIS ROLE Strategic Planning and Execution
- Leads in all technical design and implementation aspects of
R&D global data program
- Reports on progress of projects, issues/plans, and critical
path schedules to executive leadership
- Visibly engages across the organization to ensure
transformational impactResource and Issue Management
- Manages internal and external resources (people, information,
technologies, time, and capital); allocates project resources
appropriately to align with business imperatives.
- Proactively identifies project issues before they arise and
develops contingency plans; communicates project-related issues to
senior executive management and manages issues to resolution.Matrix
Team Management
- Provides matrix management, strategic and tactical leadership
across data program.EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:
- PhD with 12-15+ years experience or MS with 15-18+ years
experience in IT with previous experience leading a medium to large
organization and influencing senior-level management
- 10+ years experience in pharmaceutical industry
- 5+ years experience directly managing data engineering or
software engineering teams who support scalable production
systems.
- Track record of successful leadership, management, and
development of large, multi-disciplinary technical teams on
medium/large scale data infrastructure projects
- Deep knowledge of SQL and relational databases
- Experience building/maintaining ETL pipelines
- Experience with modern data technologies/stack such as Airflow,
Kubeflow, Redshift, Snowflake, SQL, AWS, Docker, BigQuery, Python,
Git, etc.
- Experience in machine learning workload and AI powered
products
- Passionate to keep up with the industry trends and approaches
to solve technical problems#LI-KD1This position is currently
classified as "hybrid" in accordance with Takeda's Hybrid and
Remote Work policy.In accordance with the CO Equal Pay Act,
Colorado Applicants Are Not Permitted to Apply.EEO StatementTakeda
is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and
providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and
applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression,
parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship
status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status,
status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other
protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and
local laws, and any other characteristic protected by
law.LocationsBoston, MAWorker TypeEmployeeWorker
Sub-TypeRegularTime TypeFull time
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