Lead System Designer

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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 About the Role As a Lead System Designer within the Plasma‑Derived Therapies (PDT) Technology ecosystem, you will serve as the senior technical design authority guiding the evolution, intelligence, and structural design of complex enterprise applications. With your experience in system design, distributed systems, engineering leadership, and emerging AI capabilities, you will define design governance, establish reusable design models, and drive product and platform modernization across the PDT landscape. You will combine deep application and solution design expertise, data‑driven thinking, and AI‑accelerated engineering approaches to ensure PDT systems are scalable, resilient, secure, and intelligence‑enabled. You will mentor technical leads, elevate engineering craftsmanship, and work cross‑functionally to align solutions with business capabilities and enterprise direction. How You Will Contribute Application & Solution Design (Expanded and Design‑Centric) • Lead application and solution design using clear structural design principles, layered solution models, modular decomposition, and domain‑driven concepts aligned to business capabilities. • Create and maintain reusable solution design blueprints, canonical models, service boundaries, and integration models that promote consistency across the PDT ecosystem. • Apply Domain‑Driven Design (DDD) techniques such as bounded contexts, aggregates, and ubiquitous language to create maintainable, business‑aligned systems. • Design systems using modern patterns including microservices, event‑driven workflows, cloud‑native components, and distributed compute models. • Lead solution review forums ensuring designs meet expected standards across performance, resilience, maintainability, and cost effectiveness. • Break down complex business needs into clear problem statements and structured design options that engineering teams can execute effectively. • Select solution patterns (e.g., CQRS-style design, Saga-style coordination, hexagonal/port‑adapter models) based on suitability, longevity, and simplicity. Strategic System & Platform Design • Guide the overall structural design of PDT applications across .NET, Node.js, AngularJS/modern front‑end, SQL/NoSQL data layers, AWS, EKS, and product-to-platform connectors. • Establish design governance, standards, and decision frameworks—enabling predictable, high‑quality technical outcomes. • Lead system modernization efforts, refactoring initiatives, and cloud‑transition designs across legacy and modern environments. • Serve as the design backbone for cross‑product system evolution, ensuring cohesion and consistency across teams. AI‑Infused Product & Solution Design • Introduce Agentic AI concepts into solution models, workflows, operational flows, observability, and developer tooling. • Design solutions that incorporate LLMs, embeddings, vector search, reasoning capabilities, autonomous agents, and AI‑powered insights. • Establish AI‑ready design patterns supporting semantic data layers, event enrichment, intelligent decisioning, and contextual logic. • Partner with data and platform teams to define the data structures, quality expectations, and processing flows required to enable AI‑powered features at scale. Data & AI Orientation • Leverage data dashboards, metrics, operational telemetry, and analytics insights to inform solution design decisions. • Embed data quality, lineage, metadata definitions, and consistency rules within system designs to support AI‑driven behaviors. • Identify opportunities to apply AI/ML fundamentals to elevate user experience, automate workflows, detect anomalies, and improve operational predictability. • Establish design guardrails for responsible use of AI across PDT solutions. AI‑Augmented Developer Experience & Productivity • Champion the adoption of AI‑