Principal Platform Engineer

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Job Description
The Future Begins Here
At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities, we are meeting the need of patients, our people, and the planet.
Bengaluru, the city, which is India's epicentre of Innovation, has been selected to be home to Takeda's recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.
At Takeda's ICC we Unite in Diversity
Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators journey in Takeda, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team.
OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE
The Platform Engineer for Shared Infrastructure is technology specialist who is able to design and implement next generation FTP Infrastructure platform engineering capabilities across the end-to-end enablement lifecycle (i.e. development, testing, release, validation, and support).

• Provide specialized knowledge and expertise in Infrastructure platform engineering activities related to platform family.
• Ensure focus on platform engineering quality by adopting consistent development, testing, debugging and documenting practices for effective communication of capabilities.
• Execute activities based on Scaled Agile Framework PI Planning framework.
• Build large scale platform capabilities leveraged by product or platform teams in a self-service model.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Responsible for building and maintaining performant, scalable, secure, resilient, and compliant engineering platform capabilities.
• Develop and implement platform capabilities based on platform architecture roadmap.
• Contribute to platform architecture roadmap, in collaboration with platform manager, platform owner, product manager, and platform architecture leads.
• Adopt engineering governance structures and best practices for platforms.
• Adopt platform engineering execution lifecycle (planning / scheduling / building / testing / deploying / documenting), and monitor progress to ensure that engineering activities are completed on time, on budget, and with proper engineering practices and quality processes.
• Help identify new technology platform capabilities for best fit purpose, and outline options for cost effective, incremental, and resilient implementation approach.
• Contribute to platform system demos in collaboration with product management leads, to communicate progress and value of FTP Infrastructure platform capabilities being built.
• Support level 3 engineering activities for platforms.
• Provision, manage and maintain the software infrastructure that supports platforms.

CORE ELEMENTS RELATED TO THIS ROLE

• Engineer practice for FTP Infrastructure platform(s).
• Experience in technology engineering for platforms and applications.

Knowledge of Agile SAFe, ITSM v4, and modern engineering processes.
DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS
Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise (Breadth and depth of knowledge, application, and complexity of technical knowledge)

• Knowledge of complex digital landscape across organizations and ability to bring experience of implementing leading technology and engineering capabilities to drive organizational sustainable improvements.
• Experience working in global teams leveraging Agile Scrum or SAFe ways of working methodologies.
• Ability to work on complex technology problems with other team members or independently driving group towards resolution.
• Ability to demonstrate platform engineering tooling and techniques knowledge to other teams.
• Demonstrate up-to-date knowledge on modern platform technologies, and ability to explore quickly new platforms features.
• Familiarity with information management practices, regulatory requirements, and global data privacy laws, especially those that uniquely effect the pharmaceutical industry.

Leadership (Vision, strategy and business alignment, people management, communication, influencing others, managing change)
Adopt platform engineering culture and practice, and influence other engineering teams across Takeda towards a higher maturity level and modern ecosystem.
Decision-making and Autonomy (The capacity and authority to make organizational decisions, autonomy in decision-making, complexity of decisions, impact of decisions, problem-solving)

• Ability to work through complex technological situations and propose proper engineering implementation options for decision across divers teams.
• Independently perform day to day platform engineering activities, with clarity on when to escalate critical problems or decisions to leadership.
• Ability to identify platform engineering-driven innovation, taking balanced risk approach, driving small experiments towards value creation, mitigate risks, and solve emergent problems.

Interaction (The span and nature of one's engagement with others when performing one's job, internal and external relationships)

• Continuously engage and collaborate with each employee to achieve established performance goals and metrics for the year aligned to organizational objectives.
• Coordinate with other engineers at a technical level to drive progress.
• Align with Enterprise Architecture, Platform Teams, Functional Teams, Compliance and Quality Teams to ensure platform engineering capabilities adoption and best practices across deployments.
• Ability to communicate clearly both in verbal and written forms to all organizational levels.

Innovation (The required level of scientific knowledge, knowledge sharing, innovation and risk taking)

• Ability to iterate and innovate in a highly regulated environment.
• Consider voice of the customer towards continuous improvements of platform capabilities.

Complexity (Products managed, mix of businesses, internal and/or external business environment, cultural considerations)

• Ability to communicate complex engineering topics into actionable strategies, implementations, and stable platform capabilities.
• Enable complex platform capability introduction from pilot to implementation and finally production grade deployments, ensuring quality, stability, and scalability for consumers of those capabilities.
• Cultural awareness to engage globally with sensitivity to local and regional considerations.
• Ability to operate in an environment of ambiguity and uncertainty, while continuing to advance goals and objectives based on available information.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:
Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, and/or Management Information Systems from an accredited university or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of more experience with Agile methods / methodologies, and leading SCRUM / Lean / Kanban teams.
• 5+ years or more of relevant professional experience as a technology engineer.
• Proven track record of getting things done in complex organizations.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in an agile and rapid changing environment with high quality deliverables.
• Demonstrated presentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to think outside the box for innovative engineering capabilities.
• Knowledge of information management practices, regulatory requirements and global data privacy laws related to the pharmaceutical industry.
• Knowledge of IT Service Management, Service Operations, and Service Release (ITIL v4 and ITSM).
• Proven experience of DevOps CI/CD technologies and lifecycle.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Cloud IaaS and PaaS technology environments (AWS and Azure preferred).
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of micro-services concepts, API integration enablement, container technologies and services (Kubernetes based preferred).
• 7+ years of experience deploying infrastructure using private hosting solutions (compute / storage / networking - Cisco UCS, Dell IPDA / Avamar or similar backup solution, Nasuni file sharing, Windows FS/DFS
• 10+ years' experience in Virtualization Administration Experience ( L3 Level)
• 5+ years of experience using public cloud infrastructure (AWS or Azure required).
• Proven experience with platform engineering automation lifecycle, leveraging infrastructure as code, configuration management, orchestration, modern patterns, APIs, and site reliability engineering concepts.

Preferred:

• Experience working with virtual / Agile teams in different locations, aligning and adapting different work, culture, and communication styles.
• Experience with scripted deployment process, tools, and lifecycle (i.e. Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Python preferred).
• Experience working in a lean and agile software delivery team model.
• Relevant and accredited certifications pertaining to the role.

Benefits:
It is our priority to provide competitive compensation and a benefit package that bridges your personal life with your professional career. Amongst our benefits are:

• Competitive Salary + Performance Annual Bonus
• Flexible work environment, including hybrid working
• Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance Plans for self, spouse, and children
• Group Term Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• Broad Variety of learning platforms
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
• Reimbursements - Home Internet & Mobile Phone
• Employee Referral Program
• Leaves - Paternity Leave (4 Weeks) , Maternity Leave (up to 26 weeks), Bereavement Leave (5 calendar days)

About ICC in Takeda

• Takeda is leading a digital revolution. We're not just transforming our company; we're improving the lives of millions of patients who rely on our medicines every day.
• As an organization, we are committed to our cloud-driven business transformation and believe the ICCs are the catalysts of change for our global organization.

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Locations
IND - Bengaluru
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time