Associate Director, Data Engineering and Automation

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Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as an Associate Director, Data Engineering and Automation 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.

This role is responsible for enabling and managing future data engineering and automation platforms within the Takeda portfolio and is responsible for the day-to-day development and alignment of delivery to the strategic vision. This role is also focused on understanding and introducing emerging technology that will transform the way we engineer data and deliver automation through cloud technology and platforms. Responsibilities of this role include the conception, delivery, release plans, and communicating progress to stakeholders.

As a recognized expert within your business or function, you possess comprehensive expertise in data engineering and automation, with broad knowledge across related areas. You excel at anticipating internal/external challenges, recommending improvements, and providing leadership and consultative expertise for data engineering and automation across the business, regions, or functions. Your role involves shaping company policies, solving unique, far-reaching problems affecting operations, disciplines, or other business units/functional areas/regions.

You frequently interact with equivalent-level managers and customer representatives, conducting briefings and technical meetings. Operating independently, you provide guidance in the most complex situations, lead functional teams or projects, and serve as a best practice/quality resource for data engineering and automation initiatives.

• Lead the analysis, design, development, and implementation of advanced data engineering and automation platforms to enable data-driven workflows and intelligent solutions.
• Oversee data engineering ecosystem design, plan projects, establish and monitor progress, and ensure that initiatives are completed on time, within budget, and effectively integrated with other systems.
• Hands‑on experience in implementing pipelines that scale to process and handle large volumes of data, ensuring robustness, reliability, and high performance for big data workloads.
• Collaborate closely with enterprise strategy and architecture teams to assess current capabilities, identify gaps, and drive innovative solutions for future needs in data engineering and automation.
• Work extensively with business partnering teams, domain end users, and scientists to understand complex business data requirements, workflows, and opportunities for improving technology capabilities.
• Support and advance data engineering needs for automation and integration across functional areas and ensure success through scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Direct the development and configuration of data engineering platforms and automation frameworks, from conceptualization to production stabilization.
• Oversee efforts in testing, debugging, and documenting data engineering workflows and system automation solutions.
• Lead activities related to implementation, enhancement, and ongoing maintenance of data engineering and automation platforms.
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