Specialist IS Architect

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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.

Specialist IS Architect - Veeva Vault

What you will do

The role is responsible for developing and maintaining the overall data and IT architecture of Amgen’s Veeva Vault Platform. This role involves defining the architecture vision, creating roadmaps, and ensuring that IT strategies align with business goals, in Amgen’s R&D Veeva Vault Platform Agile Team. The role will be working closely with partners to understand requirements, develop architectural blueprints, and ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards. The role will be involved in defining the Veeva Vault Platform Architecture strategy, guiding technology decisions, and ensuring that all implementations adhere to established architectural principles, Veeva’s and the Industry’s standard processes.

• Develop and maintain the Amgen’s enterprise Veeva Vault Platform architecture vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Responsible for fostering platform reliability and efficiency through streamlined release management & execution, and establishing a consistent DevOps & CI/CD framework
• Accountable for designing and building customizations & configurations on the Platform as per the business needs including creating custom objects, fields, workflows and SDKs
• Responsible for strategizing Platform Integrations while adhering to consistent integration standards and patterns, designing integration workflows, building connectors, centralizing build & run, and driving a consistent DevOps model for integrations
• Identify and mitigate architectural risks, ensuring that the platform is scalable, secure, and resilient
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of the platform architecture, including principles, standards, user guides, and models
• Drive continuous improvement in the architecture by finding opportunities for innovation and efficiency
• Work with partners to gather and analyze requirements, ensuring that solutions meet both business and technical needs
• Perform impact assessments, clearly define AS-IS and TO-BE states, and recommend platform upgrades following the new features and functionalities released by Veeva
• Design platform architecture that can scale to meet growing business needs and performance demands
• Develop and maintain logical, physical, and conceptual data models to support business needs
• Establish and enforce data standards, governance policies, and best practices
• Provide domain expertise in Veeva Vault to the team, offering guidance on architecture, solution design, and implementation challenges.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in resolving complex technical issues and ensuring smooth deployment and system integration

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is someone with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree with 4 - 6 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field OR
• Bachelor’s degree with 6 - 8 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field OR
• Diploma with 10 - 12 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field

Must-Have Skills

• Solid understanding of architecting and deployment strategies for Veeva Vault Platforms/Products,
• Expertise in system integration, including APIs, middleware tools, and data migration between Vault and other systems.
• Strong knowledge of Data Lake technologies like Databricks, etc.
• Experience in Mulesoft and Python script development
• Extensive knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, technologies, and methodologies
• Experience with system integration and IT infrastructure
• Experience with data, change, and technology governance processes on the platform level
• Experience working in agile methodology, including Product Teams and Product Development models
• Proficiency in designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions.
• Have stakeholder and team management skills
• Can lead and guide multiple teams to meet business needs and goals
• Experience with cloud-based architectures, AWS, Azure, or similar environments.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Good Knowledge of the Global Pharmaceutical Industry
• Understanding of GxP process
• Strong solution design and problem-solving skills
• Solid understanding of technology, function, or platform
• Experience in developing differentiated and deliverable solutions
• Ability to analyze client requirements and translate them into solutions
• Working late hours

Professional Certifications:

• Veeva Vault Platform Administrator (mandatory)
• SAFe – DevOps Practitioner (mandatory)
• SAFe for teams (preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Excellent critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Demonstrated awareness of how to function in a team setting
• Demonstrated awareness of presentation skills

Shift Information:

This position requires you to work a later shift and may be assigned a second or third shift schedule. Candidates must be willing and able to work during evening or night shifts, as required based on business requirements.

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.