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Would you like to take your skills and help deliver the world's most advanced and life-changing biotech medicines? If you are excited to work on latest and greatest technology stack, we are also looking for like-minded individuals. In this role, you will work with some of the brightest minds in the industry, and you'll get an opportunity to solve some of the most challenging business problems.

Amgen is using Semaphore, Enterprise Data Lake, cloud technology, and continuous deployment pipelines to produce science based insights to build new drug therapies for patients that address grievous illnesses. At Amgen, your work will improve the lives of millions of patients around the world.
 
Description:

As the Reference Data Product Owner and a key member of the Enterprise Data Management organization, you will be responsible for advancing and promoting the use of reference data, partnering with business Subject Mater Experts on creation of vocabularies / taxonomies and ontologies, and developing analytic solutions using semantic technologies.

You will interact with Amgen’s Data Management leaders worldwide through the Data Governance forums, where data anomalies and remediation plans are discussed and tracked.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Reference Data Product Team
• Work with Reference Data Product Owner, external resources and other junior engineers as part of the product team
• Deliver towards the roadmap for semantic technologies to advance the reference data platform
• Work with Business and Client IS to model and develop vocabularies, taxonomies and ontologies  
• Develop and maintain semantically appropriate concepts
• Identify and address conceptual gaps in both content and taxonomy
• Maintain ontology source vocabularies for new or edited codes
• Support product teams to help them leverage taxonomic solutions
• Own business requirements related to taxonomy and ontology tools

Basic Qualifications

Doctorate degree 

OR 

Master’s degree and 3 years of Information Systems experience 

OR 

Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of Information Systems experience 

OR 

Associate degree and 10 years of Information Systems experience 

OR 

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Information Systems experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of controlled vocabularies, classification, ontology and taxonomy
• Experience in ontology development using Semaphore or Topbraid or a similar tool
• Experience doing document classification leveraging taxonomies and using a classification tool such as Semaphore
• Hands on experience writing SQL using any RDBMS (Redshift, Postgres, MySQL, Teradata, Oracle, etc.).
• Hands on experience writing SPARQL queries on graph data
• Experience using cloud services such as AWS or Azure or GCP
• Experience working in Product Teams environment
• Clinical and pharmaceutical experience

This position is open to remote workers within United States.