Senior Associate IS Engineer - Platform

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Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be member of the technical team that develops and implements technology strategies, solutions, and services to support Amgen’s Global Medical business function. As the Technology IS Engineer, you will be the primary accountable for ownership and integration of several capabilities and the point of contact for the business & technology product owner and other stakeholders. This role will work closely with business and technology teams to efficiently build, deploy, scale, and operate technology solutions and software products and be responsible for all aspects of product DevOps, MLOps and lifecycle management. The Senior Associate IS Engineer will be a responsible member of a high-performing Agile Product Team consisting of business analysts, software engineers, solution architects, system configurators, etc.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Be accountable for the identified agile product team and portfolio of software applications

• Enable the technology ecosystem for Global Medical Data and Analytics platform team and ensure that the platforms meet their business needs and enterprise technology standards

• Own the Product DevOPS Implementation of integration pipelines for the product using Amgen’s CI/CD frameworks and tools

• Manage development to deployment of data integration User Stories, Data pipelines and APIs using city planning technology using tools like AWS, Databricks, MuleSoft, salesforce connectors, Python

• Develop cross-functional collaborations with platform teams to maintain enterprise standards

• Drive a Product First attitude amongst the team and peers with a goal towards global expansion of the product’s capabilities

• Drive an attitude of excellence in running robust, reliable, and secure software products following Amgen’s software development, operating procedures, and change management requirements

• Unblock and drive engagement to improve results delivery for the team and the organization

• Drive external software product and service partners to deliver excellence

• Develop and mentor the team of engineers, architects, and data scientists for higher performance, and individual career growth. Act as a role model demonstrating leadership behaviors

• Partner with leadership in the Global Medical organization to define, develop, and implement technology solutions aligned with the organization’s goals and objectives, with a focus on increasing the effectiveness of the organization.

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's degree / Bachelor's degree and 5 to 9 years of Information Systems experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Functional Skills

• 5+ years of IT Industry work experience in analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance of software applications in the Health & Life Sciences industry

• 2+ years of experience supporting Medical Affairs business teams

• Experience working on major programs/projects that involve multiple partners and external vendors

• Experience in end-to end DevOps, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), especially in regulated setting including ability to lead the transformation of teams from a service based to a product-based model

• Working experience on Enterprise Datalake(EDL) and technologies like AWS, GitLab, GitHUB, Databricks, Mulesoft, SQL, Spark, Python, MLOps etc.

• In-depth experience in all aspects of SDLC from requirements, design, testing, data analysis and Change Control process combined with experience developing project charters, statement of work and project financials

• Experience with data warehousing and EDL technologies like databricks to build integrations across multiple systems

• An ongoing commitment to learning and staying at the forefront of AI/ML advancements.

• Experience or working knowledge of SaaS solutions like Salesforce, Veeva, AWS, etc.

• Experience within a highly regulated pharmaceutical or technology organization, with the ability to ensure compliance with industry regulations and standard methodologies for data integrity, security, and audit readiness.

• Experience driving a collaborative culture that values technical depth, accountability, and customer service.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Experience handling vendor relationships and working with external partners or consultants to ensure optimal performance, support, and development of the ServiceNow platform

Professional Certifications

• Preferred certification in SAFe for Teams

• Preferred certification in EDL tools like databricks

• Preferred AWS certifications

Soft Skills:

• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to work in collaborative teams and cultivate talent.

• Demonstrated ability to influence decisions with business & technology collaborators & leadership

• Data-driven decision making

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization.

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation

• Ability to handle multiple priorities successfully

• Team-oriented with a focus on achieving team goals

• Strong presentation and public speaking skills

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills

• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams

Equal opportunity statement

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 with 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.