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HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

You’ve earned your degree. How will you use that achievement to reach your goals? Do more with the knowledge you’ve worked hard to acquire and the passion you already have. 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, reaching over 10 million patients worldwide. Become the professional you are meant to be in this meaningful role.

Automation Engineer (Specialist Architect/Engineer)

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will join our Automation team to help drive productivity through the company leveraging technology to unlock opportunities to stop, optimize processes and then automate as appropriate

Responsibilities:

• Build out automation engineering practices, standards, community by provide technical leadership to engineers creating a new culture around the automation demeanor
• Applying a structured business architecture methodology for capturing and documenting inputs from key business and IT stakeholders
• Work with process subject matter experts (SMEs) to understand key process requirements and transform them into digital automated solutions
• Lead development on high profile and complex automation projects
• Lead selected efforts to design, build, and develop rapid Proof-of-Concept (POC) automated solutions and services. Quickly and iteratively prove or disprove the concepts being considered.
• Collaborate with business partners to understand how automation can improve workflow and productivity
• Synthesize requirements from clients, customers, or end-users to develop the best automation solutions.
• Work closely with other teams and Process Engineers to identify, stop, simplify business process waste to codify into automated solutions and platforms.
• Build re-useable component that can expedite process to delivery
• Provide leadership and engineering expertise along with delivery for end to end automations that span multiple system and need enterprise architecture mindset.

A day in the life:

• You are leading from the front engaging with business functions across the company to identify bottlenecks in their business process using technologies
• Design and build prioritized automations using wide array of process automation technologies.
• Work in a team of automation engineers of internal staff and suppliers to drive these outcomes
• Translate process automation opportunities into technical designs that can be automated by engineers
• Provide demonstrations & articulate the significance of Process automation leveraging RPA, Cognitive or native capabilities of PaaS such as AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
• Drive technology roadmap in Automation space

About the Team:

The Process Simplification and Automation team is part of the Digital technology and Innovation organization at Amgen that is focused on helping improve staff experience, unlock productivity and improving quality leveraging technology to identify inefficient processes, foster simplification of processes and help automate these revised processes to unlock value. This is a highly visible team with a remit to help shape the future pipeline of Amgen products by unlocking value

Our customers include Amgen staff and various organization within functions such as Amazon's internal and external financial community across the globe. Our teams are group of high-energy, motivated doers that want to improve the lives of our partners through continuous productivity improvement via the use of automation software technologies.

Win

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications

Doctorate degree

OR

Master’s degree and 3 years experience working with automation and process intelligence software (e.g., Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath, Celonis etc.). Knowledge of other Intelligent Automation platforms and software such as Machine Learning, Citizen Development, Business process Management.

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 5 years experience working with automation and process intelligence software (e.g., Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath, Celonis etc.). Knowledge of other Intelligent Automation platforms and software such as Machine Learning, Citizen Development, Business process Management.

Or

Associate’s degree and 10 years of experience working with automation and process intelligence software (e.g., Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath, Celonis etc.). Knowledge of other Intelligent Automation platforms and software such as Machine Learning, Citizen Development, Business process Management.

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of experience working with automation and process intelligence software (e.g., Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath, Celonis etc.). Knowledge of other Intelligent Automation platforms and software such as Machine Learning, Citizen Development, Business process Management.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3-5 yrs. Experience in and certifications for leading automation software platforms (e.g., UiPath, Automation Anywhere, PowerAutomate, BluePrism etc.)
• Ability to implement various process automation tools such as UIPath, Automation Anywhere, Celonis, Docusign, MIRO etc
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong experience in business analysis and process mapping
• Continuous improvement approach (i.e. LEAN, Kaizen, etc.)
• Experience working with Agile development methodologies (such as Sprint and Scrum) and DevOps
• Self-motivated individual with demonstrated ability to learn new concepts and technologies, work multi-functionally in teams (internal and external)
• Expertise in programming/scripting languages, including but not limited to: Java, C, C++, Swift/Objective C, Python, Go, C#, or JavaScript
• Experience doing full stack development including infrastructure cloud services
• Experience in building machine learning, OCR and NLP solutions
• Data analysis and reporting experience by using analytics, visualization, and database technologies (PL SQL, Spotfire, Tableau, Python – NumPy, SciPy, Pandas)
• Experience in relational database fundamentals
• Possess knowledge of functional support systems (e.g., Workday, SFDC, SAP)
• Ability to quickly assimilate knowledge of new platforms, languages, tools and technologies

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

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.

• Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and maximize your potential along your career journey
• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
• Generous Total Rewards Plan—comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits—with compensation and benefits rated above 4 stars (out of 5) on Glassdoor

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for a career that defies imagination

Objects in your future are closer than they appear. Join us.

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