Enterprise Architect

**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 epicenter 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**

**The Opportunity**

The Enterprise Architect for GPD (Global Portfolio Division) at Takeda will be a key architecture advisory role as well as a key contributor to Takeda’s Enterprise Architecture vision by engaging in highly collaborative ways to understand and solve complex strategic challenges of their business domain while balancing the Enterprise guardrails and principles to enable Takeda to be an agile, efficient, best-in-class digital bio-pharmaceutical company. Backed by their strong business acumen of the Pharmaceutical or life sciences experience in key capability areas such as Commercial, Marketing, Medical, Market Access & Patient engagements and Digital Health along and their technical knowledge to architect, design and recommend innovative solutions they will be managing the architecture strategy of specific areas within GPD.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Business**D**omain Architecture**
- Be a trusted advisor to the regional/functional leadership within GPD in developing and steering data and technology strategies within enterprise guardrails.
- A compelling storyteller who can articulate complex technology concepts, their impacts, pros and cons to the business stakeholders and complex business challenges and unmet customer needs to their technology counterparts effectively.
- Mediate and negotiate through often complex architecture conversations from different stakeholders from local, regional, global regardless of business or technology backgrounds to arrive at a neutral data-driven architectural decisions that balances all stakeholder needs and concerns.
- Represent GPD and its areas in various Enterprise Architecture forums while driving alignment to common standards and guidelines
- Lead the delivery of both defined and ad-hoc Enterprise Architecture services to an assigned business domain including the development of strategies and roadmaps
- Develop and manage key Business Architectures such as business capability models, value streams, business processes, etc.
- Lead and influence the development of capabilities which will drive effective business outcomes especially in the area of AI/ML, Generative AI and Agentic solutions within the commercial and marketing context

**Architecture**Governance**(**Standards &**Guardrails)**
- Participate in the Enterprise Governance processes such as the Architecture Council by following the right technology introduction, standardization and risk management practices in the assigned area.
- Accountable for solution evaluation and selection, buy vs. build decisions, and early-phase project estimates which contribute to the business case.
- Recommend novel architecture guidance and best practices to solutions that can leverage and maximize AI/ML/GenAI and Agentic in a safe and secure manner.
- Recommend and advocate target architecture, architecture strategy and vision and processes.
- Gain acceptance of high-level design and detailed design documentation through enterprise and peer design reviews.
- Create solutions that are aligned to architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet financial targets.
- Regularly share their business expertise and learnings with an extended Architecture Community of Practice
- Familiarity of Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, DODAF, etc.
- Ability to define and develop Responsible AI, AI Ethics and explainability from the context of Architecture governance and approaches to embedding them in solutions.

**Technical Architecture** Skills**
- Well-rounded business acumen for the pharmaceutical or life sciences industries with depth in at least one business domains (for instance, Patient Engagements, Commercial, Marketing & Campaign Operations, Next Best actions, Launch Excellence, Medical Affairs and CRM (Veeva, Salesforce CRM, Marketing Automation), etc., and at least one technical architecture domain (eg: AI/ML/Data Science Tools, AWS, Mulesoft, Power platform, etc.)
- Use in-depth knowledge and experience with Architecture, design, data, system thinking, and standards together with and clear view of fundamentals of architecture and Product Management to advise on initiatives or solutions.
- Design architecture components, including design and documentation of architecture relevant system or software changes or enhance