Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us in our Cambridge, MA 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.

For the Takeda global scientific community who aspire to deliver transformative medicines to patients Scientific Informatics is the technology leader, with domain specific expertise, that provides innovative platforms and technologies to improve both operational efficiency and data-driven decision making. As an embedded partner Scientific Informatics is at the leading edge of both science and technology and proactively reacts to the changing scientific environment and needs of researchers in an agile fashion to deliver timely, value-adding solutions.

The Digital Advisory Board programs aim to ensure our growing data is easily accessible to everyone so we can help our patients and HCPs faster and more effectively.

Patient Engagement Platform

Patient Engagement Platform - Develop a patient centric technology foundation that enables a seamless and personalized patient experience, delivering improved patient outcomes, and generating actionable data.

We want to ensure patients get the right diagnosis, treatment and support at the right time, ultimately ensuring the best possible outcomes. We will do that by building a platform made up of trusted partners providing personalized digital and data-driven solutions to empower patients and their healthcare providers.

Our patients want to own their own health data and decide who to share it with. They want an intuitive experience personalized to their needs and connected to their healthcare support network.

We will bring together a network of trusted channels, digital devices, and partnerships in a seamless way to empower patients and their healthcare providers. We will drive real world data from clinical development to available treatment tailored to local market needs.

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE

• This role will be the Salesforce Developer for Patient Engagement Platform, focusing on driving improved business outcomes through a global common platform approach.
• Responsible for transforming design and product vision into working product
• Can develop, customize and enhance functionalities of Salesforce and participate actively in the team by taking leading role in discussions and ceremonies to help shape implementable user stories
• Is able to propose several solution implementation options with their pros, cons & impacts against the overall design principles of the platform.
• Align and integrate well with architects, designers and other stakeholders
• Collaborate with other developers across teams, vendors and units, both as ad hoc problem-solving
• Support non-technical team members in understanding the technical implications of design decisions.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Collaborate with other agile/scrum team members to craft clear user stories, design tests for prototypes and products, and continuously deliver product enhancements
• Maintain and develop for digital products (client facing application side) and continuously delivers enhancements through CI/CD practices.
• Strong proven track record in Salesforce solution development including additional features and systems such as (Health cloud, Service Cloud, Community Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Heroku), or integrated services (Web Services, Call Centers)
• Experience with databases, middleware and ETL technologies (AWS RDS, SQL Server, Oracle, MuleSoft, Informatica PowerCenter) etc.
• Certification Preferred in any of the following (Salesforce Platform Developer (PD-I or PD-II) or Salesforce Administrator)
• Identify and socialize product and delivery risks
• Use agile engineering practices and various software and Web development technologies to rapidly develop creative and efficient solutions that enhance the customer and employee experience
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of both the development and operational aspects within Salesforce
• Communicate with business stakeholders about agile processes to set and manage expectations about delivery methods and timelines
• Continuously reach out to demonstrate and validate developed functionality
• From time to time, report on the state and direction of Takeda PEP environments to technology and business leaders
• Ability to work in complex environment and enjoy working autonomously.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems analysis, product management or a related study, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience developing software as a full-stack developer with strong orientation towards Salesforce based technologies and having worked in DevOps model and agile methodologies. Certifications are preferred.
• Knowledge of working in a multi-org salesforce platform architecture and its supporting infrastructure components.
• Background in architecture and qualification/validation protocols required in the healthcare industry.
• Experiences with code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous deployment, highly scalable applications and application security
• Expert in pair programming, continuous integration, test-driven development and incremental design
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align organization on decisions
• Sound problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information
• Must is an experience in Salesforce development.
• Desired is experience in Lifesciences, Salesforce Healthcloud, MuleSoft APIs and AWS.

Locations

Cambridge, MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job ID R0022800