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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.

Data Scientist (Remote)

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What you will do.

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.

Amgen is a leading global biotechnology company, with a mission to serve patients around the world. The new Operations Digital Strategy and Capabilities organization at Amgen is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Data Scientist with a dynamic, customer-focused, data product mentality and a passion for linked data concepts, data governance, and model-first design. We are convinced in the importance of meaningful, explainable, reproducible, and maintainable data as the foundation for insight-creation and decision-making. You will play an integral role in shaping our journey toward data-centricity as a member of a highly collaborative, cross-functional digital innovation unit. Together, we will weave a network of durable data products for Operations: thoughtfully-designed, connected, high quality, contextualized data assets that collectively power Operations' business destinations. You'll work at the crossroads of technology and value-driving business solutions to lead the way in how data can enable Amgen to better serve patients.

In this vital role an ideal candidate will have the following characteristics:

• You are excited to work within an Operations digital innovation unit to help grow a connected data fabric that makes data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable across end-to-end business processes and enables a data-centric transformation.
• You have an unwavering passion for understanding, wrangling, assembling, and organizing data to unlock its potential to drive advanced analytics, visualization, and novel insights generation.
• You thrive in an agile, dynamic environment to facilitate conversations with business partners to understand their data gaps and challenges.
• You are curious to partner with business and Information Technologies teams to shape progressive approaches to cooperative data governance within an enterprise data fabric.
• You are a staunch advocate for data governance to improve the quality, reliability, and standardization of data as a foundational prerequisite for advanced analytics and business insight.
• You enjoy immersing yourself in our business, its people, and in building bridges between data consumers and data producers. You believe that the co-creation of business information models can serve as a powerful alignment tool to describe how the business sees the world.
• You are an excellent communicator with the ability to distill complex issues and clearly articulate solutions to diverse audiences.
• You have dynamic social skills, situational awareness, and the ability to influence, motivate, lead and work in a multidisciplinary setting.
• You have outstanding work ethics and strong motivation to positively impact the lives of patients

Responsibilities

• Advocate for a strategic shift to data-centricity to achieve durable value from reusable data products for Operations.
• Partner closely with business users and semantic modelers to define and understand deeply the meaning of the data within the business context.
• Collaborate with our data scientists and subject matter experts to help shape a knowledge graph that represents how the business sees the world and how it leads to value for Operations' business objectives.
• Develop and publish best practices that define Operations’ data standards for terminology, structure, conventions.
• Establish new controlled terminologies and reference data that enable construction of a reliable linked data architecture.
• Explore new ways through the lens of data-centricity to transition traditional data governance approaches to a more progressive and data customer/consumer-focused operating model
• Manage delivery of a continuous, iterative flow of Operations data products and improvements to meet business needs.
• Support business case development with respect to data readiness and alignment to data strategy.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a [type of person] with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree OR
• Master’s degree and 3 years of engineering/data sciences/business analytics and/or life sciences experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of engineering/data sciences/business analytics and/or life sciences experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of engineering/data sciences/business analytics and/or life sciences experience OR
• High Diploma / GED and 12 years of engineering/data sciences/business analytics and/or life sciences experience OR

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid understanding of Linked Data concepts, F.A.I.R. data principles, and knowledge graphs for connecting cross-functional business data
• Exceptional interpersonal, business analysis, facilitation, and communication skills, especially as applied to elucidating usage of business data
• Highly proficient at facilitating, capturing, and organizing collaborative discussion through tools such as Miro, Lucidspark, Lucidchart, and Confluence
• Engaging visual presentation style with a compelling ability of data storytelling
• Strong appreciation for customer- and user-centric product design thinking
• Hands-on data analysis and wrangling experience including SQL-based data transformation and solving integration challenges arising from differences in data structure, meaning, or terminology
• Familiar with the application of data governance, ownership, stewardship, and cataloging to improve data quality and transparency. Awareness of current industry trends in this area is a major plus.
• Well-versed in the use and benefit of controlled terminologies and taxonomies to business data standardization
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, Agile team environment
• Experience working in manufacturing, supply chain, pharma/biotech, or other product manufacturing settings

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

Apply now for a career that defies imagination

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

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