BPAS Solution Architect

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Job Description

Are you looking for a patient-focused, innovation-driven company that will inspire you and empower you to shine? Join us as an BPAS Solution Architect.

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:

• Serves as SharePoint, Office365, and Power Platform expert within Business Productivity Apps Service (BPAS) in order to support overall department strategy as defined by BPAS Lead within Digital & DevOps.
• Promotes correct usage of the Power Platform and Office365 as defined by governance and ALM strategy within Digital & DevOps.
• Serves as a point of contact for business and IT partners who have engaged BPAS internal build workstream

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Triages Project Requests and schedules development work for BPAS internal developers.
• Meets with local and global IT business partners to gather and understand requested project requirements
• Collaborates with other business domain, platform, and technical architects to ensure that solutions are both strategically and technologically aligned.
• Meets weekly with BPAS Lead to review requests and ongoing work
• Acts as a developer and administrator as needed in order to deliver low-code Office365 solutions in a timely manner
• Uses various analytical IT processes and independent judgment to develop innovative solutions, executes enhancements, and resolves technical challenges to deliver consistent quality services to IT solutions and platforms.
• Contributes to efforts in the technical planning, architecture development, and changes in specifications.
• Contribute to Takeda’s mission by leading the development and adoption of solutions that deliver business outcomes and drive innovation.
• Defines, documents, and communicates enterprise and domain specific process, application, and data standards within area(s) of responsibility.
• Using knowledge of business operations, explores and identifies areas for improvement.
• Follows all company and departmental policies, procedures and standards.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience with business processes, systems, applications, data and services within area of responsibility
• Excellent communication skills with ability to explain architectural concepts to lay audiences. Experienced in working with board level stakeholders and senior management.
• Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude
• Experienced cross-team leader to ensure successful delivery of solutions
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills - demonstrating outside-the-box problem solving skills
• Deep knowledge of application solutions in their domain areas.
• In-depth pharmaceutical industry and drug development experience is preferred
• Ability to write and speak in the English language
• Self-starter with a passion for taking ownership of your work and delivering outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills, a team player with a 'winning as a team' attitude.
• Practice efficient time management and coordinates tasks, working in an international environment.
• 6+ years development & administrative experience with SharePoint & Office365
• 3+ years Power Platform development experience
  • Power Automate
  • Power Apps
  • Power BI
• 2+ years Power Platform governance
• Experience leading a team of developers and analysts
• 5+ years admin experience in SharePoint & Office365
• Familiarity with InfoPath, SharePoint Designer, and Nintex Forms to support conversion of current workstreams into modern processes
• Experience explaining high level IT and governance concepts to business users
• Experience training end users on Office365, SharePoint, and Power Platform solutions in order to facilitate UAT and adoption

Preferred:

• Experience with SharePoint Framework (SPFx)
• Experience working in a life sciences environment.
• Familiarity with regulated systems and general level of understanding of quality systems validation.

EEO Statement

Takeda 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.

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