The Next Best Experience Solution Architect develops innovative Next Best Experience solutions and technology strategies and owns the end-to-end solution design strategy across teams.Solution Architect makes recommendations for new procedures and overall architectural approaches, partnering with enterprise and platform architects.

Accountabilities

Architecture Standards & Strategy

• Recommend and advocate target architecture, architecture strategy and vision and processes.

• Accountable for solution evaluation and early-phase project estimates which contribute to the business case.

• Gain acceptance of high-level design and detailed design documentation through enterprise and peerdesign reviews.

• Create solutions that are aligned to architecture standards and principles, leverageshared platform capabilities and services, and meet financial targets.

• Consult DevOps teams regardingarchitecture-related concerns and direction, as well as alignment to overall technology strategy.

Technical Architecture

• Drive the overall technical design and end-to-end solution design for Next Best Experience.

• Design reference and application architectures based on specific business constraints, requirementsand dependencies.

• Design architecture components, including design and documentation of architecture-relevantsystem or software changes or enhancements to all assigned systems.

• Review and identify gaps in architecture and solution designs, andassess and define remediation efforts or mitigation options.

• Drive cross-domain initiatives that are supported by end-to-end design.

• Apply digital standards to project Solution Architecture and drive Technical Strategy and architectural tradeoff discussions.

• Translate business requirements into technical requirements that the system analysts and other technical team members include in the project design and delivery.

Skills and qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience in marketing and data technologies

• Experience in designing and developing integrated recommendation solutions using data science and machine learning using Python

• Deep knowledge of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and understanding of the Salesforce Customer Data Platform

• Strong practical knowledge of machine learning methods

• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical marketing and sales business processes and their trends

• Excellent stakeholder management skills

• Analyzing Requirements & Identifying Solution Options

• Designing Effective & Efficient Architecture Solutions

• Advising & Influencing Others

• Teaming & Collaboration

• Understanding Customer’s Goals &Strategies

• Leveraging Takeda’s DD&T Landscape &Strategic Roadmap

• Using Enterprise, Solution, Platform, and Data Architecture Standards

• Architecture Tools & Methodologies

• Solution Design and Delivery

• Technical Storytelling & Influence