HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. 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. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us.

What you will do

The Omics Product Team closely works with and supports Amgen’s R&D Molecular and Computational Biologists in identifying new drug targets, validating them for specificity and characterizing drug induced molecular changes in tissues. The team coordinates development and advancement of IT solutions and analytical data pipelines for Genomics (GWAS, Bulk RNASeq etc), Transcriptomics (Single Cell RNASeq), and Proteomics.

The Omics Product Team is integral to R&D Informatics that partners with R&D teams globally to develop and implement innovative Technology and Data solutions to accelerate and grow Amgen’s pipeline of bio-pharmaceuticals. Our success in informatics is inspired by our commitment to our patients, our business partners, and our use of cutting-edge technologies to deliver critical business value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plays a Business Analyst role on internal Omics pipeline projects, creating user stories in conjunction with the Product Owner, and working with the software/data engineers to ensure quality of deliverables and alignment with business needs

• Supports design, development and delivery of high-quality, scalable and robust software products and components in collaboration with product teams, stakeholders and engineering teams

• Oversees validation of product releases and ensures development of associated documentation

• Ensures effective communication between research leadership, technical staff and vendors to compile scientific requirements and implement informatics solutions for Omics data acquisition, processing, integration and analysis. 

• Contributes to the design of R&D information models and data assets to meet internal and external standards of data integrity, reliability, and interoperability

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic leader we seek has these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

Doctorate degree and 2 years of Informatics and/or Information Systems experience

Or

Master’s degree and 4 years of Informatics and/or Information Systems experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of Informatics and/or Information Systems experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 8 years of Informatics and/or Information Systems experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 10 years of Informatics and/or Information Systems experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Computer Science or Engineering

• 1-2 years of IS Business/Systems Analysis experience

• Knowledge in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology/Omics is desired

• Experience in systems analysis, Agile development, DevOps, and implementing complex solutions

• Working knowledge of software engineering practices across full software development life cycle (SDLC), including rapid prototyping, agile methodology, DevOps frameworks and release management

• Strong data analysis and reporting experience leveraging analytics, visualization and database technologies 

• Ability to communicate technical ideas in common terms to business and technology partners

• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal communication and presentation skills and ability to communicate with Business users in non-technical language 

• Self-motivated individual with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with Computational Biologists, Therapeutic Area scientists and Data Engineers and play a key role in translating scientific business needs into data engineering requirements

• Working knowledge of Cloud technologies is preferred (EC2 servers, Docker/Containers/S3 storage, RDS, Databricks, Jupyter notebooks etc.)

Thrive

What you can expect of us

• As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we simultaneously work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being. Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization

• 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

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.

Amgen endeavors to make its recruitment process accessible to any and all users. Reasonable accommodations will be provided, upon request, to applicants with disabilities in order to facilitate equal opportunity throughout the recruitment and selection process. Please contact TalentAcquisitionInquiries@amgen.com to make a request and ensure you include the requisition number.

Reasonable accommodations are available, upon request, to facilitate the equal participation of candidates with disabilities, should you be selected for an interview.