Network Platform Architect

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 USA, Inc. for the following job opportunity:

JOB LOCATION: Cambridge, MA

POSITION: Network Platform Architect

POSITION

DESCRIPTION:

Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. is seeking a Network Platform Architect with the following duties: lead the formulation of PEP related IT Strategy, with a strong focus on Takeda strategic digital innovation goals by maturing Takeda patient engagement capabilities. Drive PEP adoption, while maintaining design authority to align use cases and regional concerns to an optimized, reusable platform. Lead and influence the development and maintenance of reference architecture, design, engineering, blueprints, standards, and product management.

Direct effort to plan all activities associated with implementation and maintenance of network and security platforms. Direct the effort of staff engineers/developers on requirements, analysis, design, development, and implementation of platforms and their components. Direct the development and configuration with project teams to deliver platforms from conceptualization through stabilization, covering configuration, testing, debugging, and documentation, while ensuring proper integration and on-time, on-budget delivery.

Implementing and supporting network equipment, including routers, switches, SD-WAN devices, and firewalls, with expertise in Cisco, Fortinet and Palo Alto networks technologies. Provide hands‑on management of the networks and troubleshooting any issues that arise. Analyze network traffic and performance to determine and implement lifecycle related improvements. Lead IT engineering and operations teams to solve problems in the overall PEP environment, specific to business use cases.

From time to time, report on the state and direction of Takeda PEP environments to technology and business leaders. Bring all global instances of patient experience platform under a common management and operations framework while supporting the needs and differences of agile product teams.

Information on travel:
Up to 10% domestic and international travel required for physical implementation of network and security devices at remote locations. Up to 75% remote work allowed.

The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location. Full time. $175,053 - $215,270 per year.

Benefits: U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and/or long-term incentives. U.S. based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S. based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, plus 5 years of related work experience. Prior experience must include: prepare and review high-level designs (HLDs), low-level designs (LLDs) for network architectures; plan, design and implement network and security architecture in on-premises environments; lead network infrastructure upgrades and migrations projects; analyze and diagnose network issues, services outages; hands‑on experience in designing, implementation and troubleshooting of Fortinet SD-WAN, Forti Manager, Forti Analyzer, Palo Alto firewalls, Palo Alto Panorama, Cisco Routers and Switches, routing protocols BGP, OSPF and Application-aware Routing, VPNs, F5 Big-IP.

Qualified applicants can apply at  Please reference job # R0181884. EOE