Senior Associate Software Engineer

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

Join Amgen's Mission to Serve Patients

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

Sr Software Engineer- Collibra

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What you will do

• The Amgen AI&D -EDSE Team  is seeking a Collibra Developer to support enterprise data governance, metadata management, data cataloging, and workflow automation initiatives. The role will focus on configuring, developing, and maintaining Collibra capabilities that enable effective data stewardship, data quality visibility, lineage, governance workflows, and integration with enterprise data platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Collibra Data Intelligence Platform, data governance processes, workflow development, metadata modeling, API integrations, and enterprise data management practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Collibra Development and Configuration
  • Configure and customize Collibra communities, domains, asset types, attributes, relations, roles, responsibilities, and operating models.
  • Develop and maintain Collibra workflows using BPMN, Groovy scripting, and Collibra workflow capabilities.
  • Build and enhance governance workflows for data ownership, stewardship, certification, issue management, access requests, and policy approvals.
  • Configure dashboards, views, reports, and user experiences within Collibra.
• Metadata and Data Governance
  • Support metadata ingestion, cataloging, classification, and enrichment across enterprise data platforms.
  • Define and maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, reference data, and governance assets.
  • Implement data lineage, data quality rules, policy mapping, and stewardship processes.
  • Partner with data owners, data stewards, platform engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to capture governance requirements.
• Integrations and Automation
  • Develop integrations between Collibra and enterprise systems using Collibra REST APIs, Java APIs, Edge, JDBC, and workflow APIs.
  • Automate metadata ingestion, synchronization, validation, and governance processes.
  • Support integrations with platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, Informatica, Tableau, Power BI, or other enterprise data tools, as applicable.
  • Troubleshoot integration issues and support production operations.
• Platform Support and Operations
  • Monitor Collibra jobs, workflows, integrations, and platform health.
  • Support incident resolution, defect fixes, enhancements, testing, release management, and deployment activities.
  • Maintain documentation for configurations, workflows, integrations, and governance processes.
  • Ensure solutions follow enterprise standards for security, compliance, auditability, and scalability.

• Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, or related field.
  • 5 or more years of overall experience.
  • 3 or more years of hands-on experience with Collibra Data Intelligence Platform.
  • Experience configuring Collibra operating model components such as communities, domains, asset types, attributes, relations, statuses, roles, and responsibilities.
  • Experience developing Collibra workflows using BPMN, Groovy, or related scripting.
  • Experience with Collibra REST APIs, workflow APIs, and integration patterns.
  • Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data cataloging, data lineage, and data stewardship concepts.
  • Experience working with SQL and relational databases.
  • Ability to work with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into Collibra solutions.
  • Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

• Preferred Qualifications
  • Collibra certification or formal Collibra training.
  • Experience with Collibra Edge, Collibra Protect, Data Quality, or Data Lineage capabilities.
  • Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or regulated enterprise environments.
  • Experience with cloud data platforms such as AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar.
  • Experience with data integration or ETL tools such as Informatica, Talend, Matillion, Airflow, or DBT.
  • Familiarity with Agile delivery, Jira, Confluence, Git, CI/CD, and release management practices.
  • Understanding of compliance, privacy, security, and data governance controls in regulated industries.

• Technical Skills
  • Collibra: Data Catalog, Data Governance Center, Workflow Designer, Edge, APIs
  • Workflow/Scripting: BPMN, Groovy, JavaScript, Java basics
  • APIs: REST, JSON, OAuth, service accounts
  • Databases: SQL, relational databases, metadata repositories
  • Cloud/Data Platforms: Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, or equivalent
  • Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, CI/CD tools
  • Concepts: Metadata management, data lineage, business glossary, stewardship, data quality, governance workflows

• Soft Skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to collaborate across business, governance, engineering, architecture, and operations teams.
  • Clear written and verbal communication.
  • Detail-oriented with strong documentation discipline.
  • Comfortable working in Agile and enterprise delivery environments

Thrive

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

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