Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

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.

Sr Data Architect

Live

What you will do

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

We are seeking a Specialist IS Architect to join our team to develop a data & analytics capability focused on integrated product surveillance. As part of this role you will be accountable for the advancement of Amgen’s integrated product surveillance analytics architecture as part of a product team of data scientists, business analysts, and software engineers. The team will rely on your expertise in leading solution architecture to design & build this visionary capability for generating insights to product complaints & adverse events for Amgen.

Job Responsibilities:

Collaborate with business partners and product teams to convert functional requirements and business outcomes into scalable, efficient and supportable technology solutions, with an emphasis on cloud infrastructure, connected cloud applications and data fabric/data lake architectures.

Provide detailed technical specifications and guidance to engineers, developers and other product team members.

Design business solutions using Amgen’s “City Planning” technology ecosystem, including AWS, Azure, Mulesoft, Kafka, Databricks, Jenkins, and Kubernetes, among others.

Create roadmaps for product teams for continual technology enhancements and retirement of technical debt.

Provide guidance and troubleshooting support for complex production incidents, as needed.

Effectively communicate with senior leadership and peers, including strong writing skills to draft and publish technical documentation, SOP’s, architectural specifications, business cases, etc.

Maintain knowledge of market trends and developments in web application development frameworks and related and new technologies to provide, recommend, and deliver standard methodology solutions

Provide technical leadership and mentorship for junior staff.

Win

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

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’s degree and 10 years of Information Systems experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Information Systems experience Requirement 1

Minimum Qualifications:

BS or MS in computer science or related field

• 3 - 5 years’ experience designing, developing, deploying, and operating cloud services for multi-national companies using native constructs and controls from AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• 2+ years of experience working with software systems validation, SOX, Information Privacy, FDA cGxP and 21 CFR Part 11 regulations
• Experience in business process re-engineering or process improvement, involving broad-based information systems, utilizing tools and techniques to effect business change.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to develop clear and detailed business requirements and design specifications that can be understood by other delivery teams and business partners
• Ability to translate business requirements into design options that are cost effective, efficient, re-usable that comply with defined architectural principles and standards and that enhance the business process
• Experience working effectively in a globally dispersed team environment.
• High learning agility, problem solving, creative and analytical thinking.
• Self-starter who can operate effectively in a complex and dynamic working environment, maintain focus on the big picture, and collect, digest and assemble information from various sources to architect technical solutions that delight our internal and external customers.

Our culture is what makes Amgen a special place to work. We have a powerful shared purpose around our mission – to serve patients. We respect one another, recognize contributions, and have embedded collaboration, trust, empowerment and inclusion in all that we do.

We equip all our staff members to live well-rounded, healthy lives. Amgen provides benefits for transgender employees and continues to pride itself on industry-leading, family-friendly offerings for families of all compositions.

Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and uses its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Thrive

Some of the vast rewards of working here

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we 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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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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.

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