Network Platform Architect

About the role

Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. is seeking a Network Platform Architect to lead the formulation of Patient Engagement Platform (PEP) related IT Strategy, focusing on digital innovation goals to enhance patient engagement capabilities.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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 the designing, implementation and troubleshooting of; Fortinet SD-WAN, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, Palo Alto firewalls, Palo Alto Panorama, Cisco Routers and Switches, routing protocols BGP, OSPF and Application-aware Routing, VPNs, F5 Big-IP.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading network infrastructure upgrades and migrations projects.
• Hands-on experience in the designing, implementation and troubleshooting of network and security platforms.
• Expertise in Cisco, Fortinet and Palo Alto networks technologies.
• Ability to analyze network traffic and performance to determine and implement lifecycle related improvements.
• Experience in leading IT engineering and operations teams to solve problems in the overall PEP environment.

Skills

• Strong understanding of network and security architecture.
• Experience in planning, designing, and implementing network and security platforms.
• Expertise in network equipment, including routers, switches, SD-WAN devices, and firewalls.
• Ability to troubleshoot network issues and services outages.
• Knowledge of Fortinet SD-WAN, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, Palo Alto firewalls, Palo Alto Panorama, Cisco Routers and Switches, routing protocols BGP, OSPF and Application-aware Routing, VPNs, F5 Big-IP.

Benefits

• Short-term and/or long-term incentives.
• Medical, dental, vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan and company match.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Paid volunteer time off.
• Company holidays.
• Well-being benefits.

Pay

$175,053 - $215,270 per year.

Schedule

Full time.