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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 Architect (Specialist Solution Architect)

Live

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:

• Provide leadership and engineering expertise along with delivery for end-to-end automations that span multiple system and need enterprise architecture mindset.
• Applying a structured business architecture methodology for capturing and documenting inputs from key business and IT stakeholders
• Documenting business functions, identifying customer-facing and supplier-related processes and systems, and roles, resources, and controls involved
• Documenting and understanding the relationships among applications, roles, capabilities, and business units
• Lead architecture and design of high profile and complex automation projects to ensure quality and timely delivery of projects by working closely with the cross functional team members (software development, business, IS, etc.)
• 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.

A day in the life:

• Service as liaison on Automation architectural board helping champion appropriate solution for the problem
• Drive architectural strategy for automation working closely with the Automation lead architect
• You are leading from the front engaging with business functions across the company to identify bottlenecks in their business process using technologies and architectural frameworks
• Design automation using the automation framework leveraging wide array of technologies.
• Work in a team of automation engineers of internal staff and suppliers to drive these outcomes
• Provide demonstrations & articulate the significance of Process automation leveraging RPA, Cognitive or native capabilities of PaaS such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Salesforce, Service Now etc.
• Help provide inputs into the 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 using 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 professional we seek is an Architect with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

Doctorate degree

OR

Master’s degree and 3 years of supporting business and solution architecture with business owners and SMEs across multiple geographically disbursed teams.

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience supporting business and solution architecture with business owners and SMEs across multiple geographically disbursed teams.

Or

Associate’s degree and 10 years of supporting business and solution architecture with business owners and SMEs across multiple geographically disbursed teams.

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of supporting business and solution architecture with business owners and SMEs across multiple geographically disbursed teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience performing and documenting business processes redesign and aligning business requirements to technical solutions
• Experience writing and publishing internal white/position papers, user documentation, SOP’s, and architectural specifications.
• Knowledge of ITIL Service Management framework and TOGAF Architecture framework
• Domain knowledge of health care/life sciences would be a plus
• Process Automation and Engineering experience delivering value
• Continuous improvement approach (i.e., LEAN, Kaizen, etc.)
• 3 - 5 years’ experience designing, developing, deploying, and operating automation technologies and end to end automated solutions/platforms across SaaS, Cloud and On-prem
• Experience doing full stack development would be a plus
• Experience in and certifications for leading automation software platforms (e.g., UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Power Automate, Blue Prism etc.) would be a plus
• Experience in designing and architecting machine learning, OCR, and NLP solutions
• Data analysis and reporting experience by using analytics, visualization and database technologies is a plus
• Good understanding of native cloud computing, design, development, and security patterns for AWS
• Possess knowledge of enterprise systems (e.g., Workday, Salesforce, Service Now, SAP)
• Ability to quickly assimilate knowledge of new platforms, languages, tools, and technologies
• Strong customer service focus with the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with team members, partners, and management. Demonstrate collaboration across all levels of the organization. Assertive and confident in raising action points with senior individuals with excellent spoken and written communication.

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 increase 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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