Manager Information Systems

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Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will develop and expand digital capability focused on shaping and delivering world-class technology systems and tools for Process Development and beyond. As part of this role, you will be designing and developing robust data models, data pipelines and data products on innovative technologies as part of a product team of data scientists, business analysts, and software engineers.

• Provide technical leadership to enhance the culture of innovation, automation, and solving difficult scientific and business challenges. Technical leadership includes providing vision and direction to develop scalable reliable solutions.
• Provide leadership to select right-sized and appropriate tools and architectures based on requirements, data source format, and current technologies
• Develop, refactor, research and improve Weave cloud platform capabilities. Understand business drivers and technical needs so our cloud services seamlessly, automatically, and securely provides them the best service.
• Develop data flow pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from various data sources in various forms, including custom ETL pipelines that enable model and product development
• Build strong partnership with partner
• Build data products and service processes which perform data transformation, metadata extraction, workload management and error processing management to ensure high quality data
• Provide clear documentation for delivered solutions and processes, integrating documentation
• Collaborate with business partners to understand user stories and ensure technical solution/build can deliver to those needs
• Work with cross-functional teams to design and document effective and efficient solutions.
• Develop change management strategies and assist in their implementation.
• Mentor junior data engineers on best practices in the industry and in the Amgen data landscape

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree / Master's degree / Bachelor's degree and 8 to 13 years in Life Science/Biotechnology/Pharmacology/Information Systems experience OR

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with multi-functional GTM, product, and engineering teams.
• Minimum of 10+ years overall Software Engineer or Cloud Architect experience
• Minimum 3+ years in architecture role using public cloud solutions such as AWS
• Experience with AWS Technology stack

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Familiarity with big data technologies, AI platforms, and cloud-based data solutions.
• Ability to work effectively across matrixed organizations and lead collaboration between data and AI teams.
• Passion for technology and customer success, particularly in driving innovative AI and data solutions.
• Experience working with teams of data scientists, software engineers and business experts to drive insights
• Experience with AWS Services such as EC2, S3, Redshift/Spectrum, Glue, Athena, RDS, Lambda, and API gateway.
• Experience with Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Pig, Spark, etc)
• Strong understanding of relevant data standards and industry trends
• Ability to understand new business requirements and prioritize them for delivery
• Experience working in biopharma/life sciences industry
• Proficient in one of the coding languages (Python, Java, Scala)
• Hands on experience writing SQL using any RDBMS (Redshift, Postgres, MySQL, Teradata, Oracle, etc.).
• Experience with Schema Design & Dimensional data modeling.
• Experience with software DevOps CI/CD tools, such Git, Jenkins, Linux, and Shell Script
• Hands on experience using Databricks/Jupyter or similar notebook environment.
• Experience working with GxP systems
• Experience working in an agile environment (i.e. user stories, iterative development, etc.)
• Experience working with test-driven development and software test automation
• Experience working in a Product environment
• Good overall understanding of business, manufacturing, and laboratory systems common in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the integration of these systems through applicable standards.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

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

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided 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 accommodation.