Software Development Engineer III

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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.

Software Development Engineer III

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software applications and solutions that meet business needs and ensuring the availability and performance of critical systems and applications. This role involves working closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to create high-quality, scalable software solutions and automating operations, monitoring system health, and responding to incidents to minimize downtime.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As a Software Development Engineer III at Amgen, you will lead the design, development, and implementation of Contracting IQ (CIQ) applications to meet business objectives, providing expert development guidance throughout the process

• Develops the conceptual systems architecture design and the supporting technologies needed to enable new and/or enhanced functionality within the CIQ space, applying principles that promote availability, reusability, interoperability, and security into the design framework

• Supports release planning activities in conjunction with Product Owner and multi-functional teams

• Supports the Product Owner with the identification and definition of enablers/work items to support the architectural runway of the E2E CIQ application

• Defines the non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, resiliency, etc.) which support the development of epics and user stories aligned with the high-level DTI and Business goals

• Identifies technical dependencies across several product/application teams to support the implementation of new or enhanced functionality

• Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of new features and enhancements in the pipeline

• Proficiency and understanding of relational and non-relational databases, distributed application architectures, user interfaces and user experience, quality assurance, security concerns, and business value creation

• Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes, and implements solutions in approved tool sets and databases

• Develops high-quality, efficient, and fault tolerant software

• Supports, extends, and builds automated CI and CD pipelines

• Conducts peer code reviews for the software changes made by other engineers within a team

• Leads all aspects of the technical design and development of in-house applications based on the gathered requirements for multiple development teams

• Provides coaching and mentoring to team members; shares information through documentation, etc. to drive operational efficiencies and technical growth within the team

• Lead the design, prototype, build, testing, implementation and DevOps of Coverage & Pricing's Deal Modeling, Forecasting and Analytics Products on GCO's AWS Data Lake and Anaplan platforms

• Follow Amgen’s governance processes, procedures, specifications, design controls, and applicable compliance standards and guidance documents

• Work across teams to support the technology stack of Commercial's Coverage, Contracting and Pricing products on standard City Plan platforms (Model N, SAP, Salesforce, GDNA, Anaplan, AWS Redshift/Altery×/Tableau)

What we expect of you

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

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree with 4 – 6 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field OR

• Bachelor’s degree with 6 - 8 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field OR

• Diploma with 10 - 12 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field

• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used within the data and ML ecosystem, such as Python, Java, Scala or Rust

• Deep understanding of Spark internals and ability to write, debug and optimize Spark code

• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and data structures

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

• Advanced understanding of systems automation strategies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

• Demonstrated experience with database modeling with Relational and/or NoSQL technologies

• Experience with source control systems like Git and practical experience with version control techniques and methodologies

Professional Certifications:

• Preferred certification in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation

• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully

• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals

• Strong presentation and public speaking skills

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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